'Israel' assassinates four Resistance fighters in West Bank
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The Israeli occupation continues to tighten its grip on the occupied West Bank, assassinating four Palestinians at the entrance to the Tulkarm refugee camp.
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Israeli occupation police inspect the scene of a stabbing operation in al-Quds, November 6, 2023 (AP)
An Israeli occupation forces (IOF) special force assassinated Monday a group of Resistance fighters at the entrance to the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Four Palestinians were martyred after an IOF unit opened fire at them as they were in their vehicle at the entrance to the Tulkarm camp, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported.
Local sources said the fighters who were martyred in the assassination were part of Resistance groups that are active in the area.
Those martyred in the assassination include Ezzeddine Awwad, the commander of Al-Qassam Brigades in Tulkarm, Jihad Shahade, the commander of the Rapid Response fore in Al-Aqsa Brigades-Tulkarm, and Qassim Rajab.
عاجل| عُرف من بين المقاومين الذين اغتالهم الاحتلال في طولكرم، الشهيد عز الدين عواد (قائد كتائب القسام)، الشهيد جهاد مهراج شحادة (قائد كتيبة الرد السريع في كتائب الأقصى/ طولكرم).#gazaholocaust#هولوكوست_غزة pic.twitter.com/lr8Vc4NWfa
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) November 6, 2023
Footage from the area shows an IOF unit shooting at a seemingly parked vehicle with the group of Resistance fighters inside of it.
تغطية صحفية: "فيديو جديد.. لحظة اغـتـيـال قوة خاصة تابعة للاحــتــلال لفلسطينيين أمام مخيم طولكرم". pic.twitter.com/uYiecV4CHT
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) November 6, 2023
The national and Islamic forces in Tulkarm Governorate mourned the martyrs and announced a strike on Tuesday to mourn their souls.
The Tulkarm Rapid Response brigade announced that it had targeted an IOF unit near checkpoint 17 using machine guns as an initial response to the assassination of commander Shehade and his comrades.
Moreover, Palestinians confronted the occupation forces in Beit Fajjar, south of Beit Lahm, as well as in Al-Arroub camp, north of al-Khalil, noting that a young man was martyred and others were seriously injured by the Israeli occupation.
Aggression on West Bank
Earlier in the day, a young Palestinian man was martyred and five others were injured, three of whom are in critical condition, as the Israeli occupation forces opened fire during the confrontations that took place in response to their storming of the town of Halhul, north of al-Khalil, in the south of the West Bank.
Local Palestinian sources said the occupation forces stormed the town of Halhul, resulting in confrontations during which bullets, stun grenades, and poisonous gas were fired at Palestinian youths. The Israeli attacks killed Palestinian youth Mahmoud Ahmad al-Atrash (21 years old) and injured five others, three of whom are in critical condition. Several cases of suffocation with the poisonous gas were also reported.
Israeli occupation forces arrested eight citizens, including a woman, from al-Khalil Governorate, in the southern West Bank.
The Israeli forces also raided several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank Sunday overnight on Monday, launching a wide-scale arrest campaign against Palestinians, where 50 were arrested.
Among the targeted areas was the Shuafat camp in northern occupied al-Quds, where numerous Palestinians were arrested. Local reports indicate that the IOF used military-grade helicopters in their infiltration of the camp.
The Israeli occupation also raided Nilin, a Palestinian town to the northwest of Ramallah, as well as the small town of Khirbat al-Nabi Elias located to the east of Qalqilya in the western-most part of the occupied West Bank.
The occupation raids and arrest campaigns in the West Bank have recurred on a daily basis since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was launched on October 7. The last count published on November 1 tallied more than 1,850 detainments in the West Bank and occupied 1948 territories. The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails remains ambiguous, as the occupation employs restrictive measures and brutalizes Palestinians.
Before the aggression on Gaza took place, there were more than 5,200 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, subjected to inhumane practices and maltreatment. Israeli occupation forces also arrested thousands of legal Palestinian workers from Gaza releasing a few thousand on Friday, after holding them for 25 days under secretive conditions.
Israeli soldier killed in operation
An Israeli "border guard" soldier was killed in a stabbing operation carried out on Monday morning in occupied Al-Quds.
Moreover, Israeli reports from earlier in the day said two Israeli "border police" officers sustained injuries in a double operation with stabbing and shooting involved near an Israeli police station at the Bab al-Sahira Gate in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.
A border guard was critically wounded, while another soldier suffered minor injuries in the incident. After the event, Israeli occupation forces in occupied al-Quds deployed heavily in the area and closed the entrances to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
These events are unfolding against the backdrop of the continuing Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza, while simultaneously, in the West Bank, Palestinians are enduring a series of grave injustices, including torture, arbitrary detentions, fatalities, and forced displacement from their residences.
It is worth noting that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank alone since October 7 has surpassed 150, with more than 1,900 injured, as per the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
