An Israeli female soldier was killed and three others injured when Palestinians opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint in East Jerusalem on Saturday night, Israeli officials said.
The attack comes hours after a pair of Palestinian teenagers were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.
This was the latest bloodshed in the deadliest fighting in seven years in the region. It also took place 24 hours before Israel began his week-long celebration of Sukkot. Tens of thousands of Jews visit the Holy City for this festival.
Saturday night’s shooting occurred at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. Police said the assailants got out of the vehicle and opened fire, seriously injuring a female soldier and a security guard before running into the camp. The military announced early Sunday that a 19-year-old woman had died.
Two members of the paramilitary border police force were slightly injured by shrapnel, police said.
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Police said special forces and helicopters were involved in the search, looking for the attackers. Police said early Sunday morning that he had arrested one person suspected of involvement in the attack but that the investigation was ongoing.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid said: “Tonight our hearts are with the injured and their families. “Terrorism will not defeat us. We are strong in this difficult night.”
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Israel occupied East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed the area in a move not recognized internationally. It considers the entire city, including East Jerusalem, home to the city’s most important holy sites, to be its capital. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of the nation.
Israel has carried out daily arrest raids in the occupied West Bank since a series of deadly Palestinian attacks inside Israel. Most of the military activity is concentrated in the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian teenagers during an arrest raid at Jenin refugee camp, the site of repeated clashes between Israeli forces and local gunmen and residents. The camp is known as a stronghold for Palestinian militants.
Palestinian officials said soldiers entered the camp early Saturday morning and surrounded the house. A shootout was heard in videos circulating on social media. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports two dead and 11 injured, three of whom are seriously injured.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the dead as 18-year-old Mahmoud Al-Sus and 16-year-old Ahmad Daragme.
The Israeli military said it had arrested a 25-year-old operative of an Islamic jihadist extremist group previously imprisoned by Israel. The man was recently involved in a shooting attack on an Israeli soldier, he said.
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Soldiers opened fire as dozens of Palestinians hurled explosives and opened fire, he said.
Shortly before noon, Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
The killing comes a day after two Palestinian teenagers, aged 14 and 17, were killed in Israeli fire in a separate incident elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. . Rights groups have accused the Israeli military of using excessive force in its dealings with the Palestinians without being held accountable. The Israeli military has said it will only open fire in life-threatening situations.
Israel says it is being forced to take action because Palestinian security forces, which work with the military in a tense alliance against Islamic extremism, are unable or unwilling to crack down. Palestinian security forces say military raids undermine their credibility and popular support, especially in the absence of a political process. Finished.
Israel says most of those killed were extremists. However, local youth protesting the attack and some civilians were also killed in the violence. Hundreds have been arrested, many of them in so-called administrative detention, which Israel can hold without trial or prosecution. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in fighting this year.
The violence has also been fueled by growing disillusionment and anger among young Palestinians at the close security coordination between Israel and internationally-backed Palestinian authorities working together to apprehend militants. There is
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UN Middle East Special Envoy Toh Wensland said he was alarmed by the increased bloodshed. “The rising violence in the occupied West Bank is fostering an atmosphere of fear, hatred and anger,” he said in a statement, urging both sides to take steps to reduce tensions and revive the political process. called out to the camp.
Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East War, and half a million Jewish settlers now live in about 130 settlements and other outposts among about three million Palestinians. increase. Palestinians want that territory, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a future state.