Israeli troops have killed 10 Palestinians, together with a minimum of three gunmen and three civilians, and wounded greater than 100 others throughout a raid on a flashpoint metropolis within the occupied West Financial institution, witnesses and medical officers say.
The Israeli army confirmed the operation in Nablus, saying troops shot again after coming below hearth whereas attempting to detain militants suspected of planning imminent assaults.
There have been no Israeli casualties, a military assertion mentioned.
Palestinian militant faction Islamic Jihad mentioned two of its Nablus commanders had been encircled in a home by Israeli troops, triggering a conflict that drew in different gunmen.
Explosions sounded and native youths pelted armored troop transports with rocks.
Palestinian sources mentioned the 2 Islamic Jihad commanders have been killed together with one other gunman.
The fatalities additionally included a minimum of three civilians, amongst them a 72-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy.
Medical officers mentioned 102 Palestinians have been wounded, six of them critically.
Nablus and close by Jenin have been a spotlight of raids that Israel has intensified over the past yr following a spate of deadly Palestinian avenue assaults in its cities.
Sixty Palestinians, together with gunmen and civilians, have been killed in 2023, the Palestinian well being ministry mentioned.
Ten Israelis and a Ukrainian vacationer died in Palestinian assaults in the identical interval, in line with Israel’s overseas ministry.
“We condemn the occupation’s raid into Nablus and we name for an finish to the continued assaults towards our individuals,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, mentioned.
Hamas, one other Palestinian militant group that generally fights alongside Islamic Jihad, mentioned there have been 4 gunmen, one from its personal ranks, and hinted at attainable reprisals from the Gaza Strip, a territory that it controls.
“The resistance in Gaza is monitoring the escalating crimes performed by the enemy towards our individuals within the occupied West Financial institution and is operating out of persistence,” Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Hamas armed wing, mentioned on Telegram.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are sworn to Israel’s destruction however have up to now noticed Egyptian-mediated truces with it.
US-sponsored Palestinian statehood talks have been stalled for nearly a decade.
