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Six killed in Israeli raid on West Bank refugee camp
Updated On: 09 March, 2023 11:06 AM IST | Jenin | Agencies
Witnesses said fighting broke out after residents saw Israeli soldiers
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Obstacles placed outside closed shops in the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank Wednesday during a Palestinian general strike called in protest against the Israeli army raid there. Pic/AFP
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least six Palestinian gunmen, including a Hamas member suspected of shooting dead two brothers from a Jewish settlement near the village of Huwara. Early on Wednesday, a rocket launch was identified from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, triggering alarms and sending Israelis running to bomb shelters, though the rocket appeared to have landed inside Gaza and not in Israeli territory, the Israeli military said.
Earlier, witnesses said fighting broke out after residents of the refugee camp saw Israeli soldiers getting out of a furniture truck near a house on a hill overlooking the centre of the sprawling camp and fighters immediately opened fire. In the ensuing gun battle, Israeli forces surrounded a house where the suspected gunman had barricaded himself with other fighters, and used shoulder-fired missiles against the building, the military said in a statement. The Palestinian health ministry said six Palestinians were killed and at least 16 wounded. One member of the Israeli police force was wounded and three lightly hurt.
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