Israel: Soldiers kill 2 Palestinian gunmen in West Bank conflict – Times of India

JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian gunmen in a gunfight on Tuesday during an arrest operation in the occupied Nablus city. Western coastPolice said.
Palestinian health officials said one person was killed and at least 40 were injured in three days of gunfights, a day after the ceasefire. Israel And this Palestinian Islamic Jihadist Militant group in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli police said forces surrounded the home of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, whom they say was wanted for a shootout in the West Bank earlier this year. He said al-Nabulsi and another Palestinian militant were killed in gunfire at the scene and that soldiers found weapons and explosives in their home.
Israel has carried out nighttime arrest raids in the West Bank in recent months as part of its crackdown on Palestinian terrorist groups, the most prominent being Islamic Jihad, following deadly attacks targeting Israel earlier this year. In which 19 people were killed. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops during these arrest raids.
Last week, Israel arrested Bassam al-Sadi, a senior Islamic Jihadi Terrorists during a night operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. The group said it was going “on alert”, and on Friday Israel said it had launched a series of attacks on Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip in response to an “imminent threat” by the terrorist group.
During the three days of the Battle of Gaza, at least 46 Palestinians were killed, including 16 children and four women, and 311 were wounded. Palestinian Health Ministry Told. Twelve of those killed were Islamic Jihad militants, one from a smaller armed group, and two were Hamas-linked policemen who were not taking part in the fighting, according to the armed groups.
Israel estimates a total of 47 Palestinians were killed, including 14 killed by misfired Islamic Jihad rockets. It said 20 terrorists and seven civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and it was still investigating the six deaths.
Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967 Middle East war and the Palestinians want it as the center of their future state. Israel views the West Bank as a biblical and historical stronghold of the Jewish people, and has built dozens of settlements, which are now home to more than 400,000 Israelis.
The Palestinians and most of the international community see Israel’s West Bank settlements as a violation of international law and an obstacle to the peaceful resolution of the decades-long conflict.