Six killed as Israel targets militants in West Bank raid

Five Palestinians, including respective gunmen, person been killed successful a large Israeli raid against a militant radical successful the occupied West Bank.

A sixth Palestinian was changeable dormant by Israeli troops who were attacked with stones successful a protestation against the raid, Palestinian aesculapian sources say.

The cognition successful the bluish metropolis of Nablus targeted the precocious formed Lion's Den group.

The radical killed an Israeli worker successful a shooting earlier this month.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had locked down Nablus for the past 2 weeks amid an intensive hunt for the slayer of 21-year-old Staff Sergeant Ido Baruch, changeable dormant successful an ambush adjacent to a adjacent Israeli settlement.

There has been an intensification of unit betwixt Israel and Palestinians successful the West Bank successful caller weeks amid an ongoing Israeli cognition to basal retired militants pursuing a question of deadly attacks against Israelis earlier this year.