Israeli forces kill nine in Jenin clash with Palestinian gunmen, marking West Bank's deadliest day in over a year - CNN

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Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians, including an aged woman, and wounded respective others during a raid successful the restive West Bank metropolis and exile campy of Jenin connected Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The decease toll makes Thursday the deadliest time for Palestinians successful the West Bank successful implicit a year, according to CNN records. It brings the fig of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces this twelvemonth to 29, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. That toll includes militants being targeted successful Israeli raids, individuals who attacked Israelis, and bystanders, CNN reporting shows.

Israeli information forces said they were operating successful Jenin Thursday to apprehend a “terror squad belonging to the Islamic Jihad panic organization,” saying successful a connection that it killed 3 “terrorists.”

“The Islamic Jihad panic operatives were heavy progressive successful executing and readying aggregate large panic attacks, including shooting attacks connected IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians,” the associated connection from the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency and Border Police said.

The connection said 2 equipped suspects were “neutralized” portion fleeing and that a 3rd was neutralized astatine the scene. Another fishy surrendered, they said.

Israeli forces reported nary injuries connected their side, but said they were alert of “claims regarding further casualties during the speech of fire” and were investigating.

The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said Israeli forces initially prevented medics from entering Jenin camp, making it hard to scope injured individuals, 4 of whom were successful captious condition.

The PRC said Israeli forces besides fired teardrop state canisters towards the Jenin Government Hospital, causing inhalation injuries among children.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called connected the United Nations and planetary quality rights organizations to “intervene urgently to supply extortion … and halt the bloodshed of children, younker and women.”

Last twelvemonth was the deadliest for some Palestinians successful the West Bank and for Israelis successful astir 2 decades, CNN investigation of authoritative statistic connected some sides showed.

Israel’s apical subject serviceman told CNN “fighting coercion is simply a analyzable mission,” successful the aftermath of Thursday’s fatal Israeli raid. Herzi Halevi, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) main of staff, was speaking to CNN’s Hadas Gold soon aft the raid, and earlier helium had been afloat briefed connected it.

An IDF spokesperson aboriginal told CNN the subject was responding to quality astir an imminent attack.

“We went into Jenin successful daylight,” the spokesperson said, underlining that the determination to run successful daylight alternatively than overnight, arsenic the IDF usually does, shows however “urgent” the ngo was.

When the forces arrived astatine the targeted gathering they “came nether dense occurrence and returned fire.”

The suspects were barricaded successful a location erstwhile the IDF arrived, “so successful summation the forces utilized an anti-tank shoulder-fired missile.”

“We are alert of reports a pistillate successful her 60s, to our sorrow, was killed during the operation. We bash not yet cognize connected whom to delegate responsibility, who fired and wherever she was,” the spokesperson added.

Israel is expanding its antiaircraft posture against Palestinian militant attacks successful the aftermath of the raid, the Ministry of Defense said.