Renewed violence in the occupied West Bank, where five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack

Violence continues in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces announced on Wednesday 17 January that they had killed a Palestinian described as a leader during an aerial bombardment in the Nablus region. “Terrorist Cell” who was preparing for the attack. The Palestinian Red Crescent also announced the death of four people in an Israeli army strike in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northwest of the West Bank.

In a joint statement, the Israeli military and the Shin Bet, the internal security service, described the man killed in Nablus. “The head of the terrorist infrastructure in the camp (of refugees) By Balata »who planned the attack “imminent and of great magnitude”.

they Identified it as “Amad Abdullah Abu Shalal”. He was killed along with his members “cell”Which was not numbered, meanwhile“Precision Air Strike”According to Israeli authorities.

They are accused of being responsible for an attack in a Jewish settlement neighborhood in the East Jerusalem sector in April 2023, during which two residents were wounded by gunfire as well as a bomb attack. against Israeli troops last October, exact location and date not specified.

The body of an unidentified man was later taken to a Nablus hospital “K Occupant Throws Car Bomb Near Balata Camp”For its part, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health suggested.

“An imminent terrorist attack”

Israeli authorities reported intelligence that Cell planned to commit “An imminent terrorist attack”. Weapons were recovered from the targeted vehicle, according to a military and Shin Beth press release. The group has “Funding and instructions received from Iranian sources cooperating with terrorist command centers in the Gaza Strip and abroad”.They continue without further details.

Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, tensions have been high in the West Bank, where Israeli security forces have been conducting almost daily raids. About 350 Palestinians were killed there, according to a count by Agence France-Presse (AFP) based on figures from the Palestinian Authority.

The war was triggered by attacks from Gaza by Hamas on Israeli soil, which killed about 1,140 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, on October 7, according to an AFP count from official Israeli figures.

Since October 7, according to the latest figures from Hamas’ Ministry of Health, some 24,450 Palestinians, mostly women, children and teenagers, have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli bombing and military operations.