A day after a local man was killed close to a checkpoint, another man, Daoud Rayan, was killed in Beit Duqqu.
Over the past year, Israeli military operations and killings in Jenin and Nablus have almost become a regular occurrence.
In separate instances in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians.
Israel is counting the final votes from this week’s national elections as the violence on Thursday erupted. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is anticipated to win with a comfortable majority supported by allies on the far right.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli fire in the West Bank killed the Palestinian man. He was identified as 42-year-old West Bank resident Daoud Mahmoud Khalil Rayan from Beit Duqqu.
The Israeli army accused the man, identified as Habis Abdel Hafeez Rayan, 54, with ramming a vehicle into and stabbing an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint close to a Jewish settlement.
His residence was raided by security guards on Wednesday. Rayan was shot by Israeli soldiers, according to witnesses. According to the police, the guards faced protests from demonstrators who threw stones and fire bombs, after which they started firing on the firebomb thrower.
Separately, police claim that a Palestinian stabbed a police officer on Thursday in Jerusalem’s Old City. When the officers fired and killed the man. The cop was only slightly injured. Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad fighter was among the two Palestinians killed amid Israeli army raids in Jenin.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extreme far-right lawmaker, said in response to the incidents that Israel would soon take a tougher approach to attackers as a political shift is underway in Israel following national elections, with erstwhile Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likely to return to office in a coalition government consisting of far-right allies.
He tweeted, “The time has come to restore security to the streets.” “The time has come for a terrorist who goes out to carry out an attack to be taken out!”
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The occurrences were the most recent in a string of violent assaults that have killed more than 130 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem this year, making 2022 the deadliest year since 2015.
Israeli forces have been raiding the West Bank almost daily, and Palestinian fighters have responded by targeting Israeli soldiers.
The raids are a component of the Israeli operation “Break the Wave,” which aims to prevent the emergence of newer Palestinian resistance organisations in the West Bank.
The campaign aims to quell a move towards a more organised Palestinian armed resistance that has formed in Jenin and Nablus following a large-scale popular upsurge of Palestinian resistance in May 2021. It started in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem and resulted in Israel’s conflict with militant organisations in Gaza.
In response to the intrusions, attacks on Israelis have increased recently, leaving at least three dead.
Israel said on Thursday that checkpoints into and out of the city of Nablus would be removed. Following the formation of a brand-new terrorist organisation called the Lions’ Den, Israel had placed the restrictions on the city weeks earlier. The military has undertaken numerous operations in the area in past weeks, killing or detaining the group’s top commanders.
Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 war and has since occupied the region illegitimately with its troops, settling more than 500,000 people there. The land, together with the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is what the Palestinians hope for their future independent state.
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