3 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
At least two Palestinians were killed this Monday by shots fired by the Israeli Army during an operation in the West Bank city of Nablus (north) that targeted various suspects of supporting the person responsible for an attack on March 25 in the town of Huwara that resulted in two wounded soldiers.
“Two martyrs killed at the hands of the occupation in Nablus,” said the Palestinian Ministry of Health in a brief message on its official account on the Facebook social network. The victims would have died at the Rafidia hospital, where they were transferred in serious condition.
The head of the Emergency Department of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus, Ahmad Jibril, has indicated that another 55 Palestinians have been treated for the inhalation of tear gas fired by Israeli forces, while a man has been injured in the foot after being attacked by an Israeli Police dog.
For its part, the Israeli Army has indicated in its account on the social network Twitter that the operation was aimed at arresting two suspects as a result of “precise information from Shin Bet Intelligence” for allegedly supporting the person responsible for the aforementioned attack in Huwara. .
“During the operation, the military opened fire on armed men who fired at them. Impacts were confirmed,” he stated, before stressing that military equipment and weapons have been seized during the operation. In addition, the vehicle from which an attack was allegedly carried out on February 26 that resulted in the death of two Israelis has been confiscated.
After the attack on February 26, hundreds of settlers stormed into Huwara, where they set dozens of houses and vehicles on fire and attacked numerous Palestinians, incidents that resulted in one death and around a hundred injured. Israeli authorities charged two settlers with terrorism last week for attacking a Palestinian family with axes.
After the assault on Huwara, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, asked the settlers “not to take the law into their own hands”, although the Finance Minister, the far-right Bezalel Smotrich, advocated “razing” the town west bank “The State of Israel should be the one to destroy it, not private individuals, God forbid,” he stressed. The city has been the scene of two attacks since then that have left three Israelis injured.
