Desk Report
Publish: 09 Aug 2022, 04:21 pm
Palestinians inspect a building damaged during an Israeli military operation in Nablus on Tuesday || Photo: Collected
Three
Palestinian men were killed during an Israeli military operation against
suspected militants in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, according to
information from the Palestinian health ministry.
Among
the dead is Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, a regional revolutionary commander in the north
of the West Bank, and the apparent target of the Israeli raid. The other men
killed have been named by Palestinian health ministry officials as Islam
Sabbouh and Hussein Jamal Taha.
A
statement from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a loose affiliation of
smaller armed groups, hailed the three men's deaths as a heroic act of
resistance.
While
closely linked, the PRC is regarded as separate from the armed wings of Islamic
Jihad (the Quds Brigades) and Hamas (the Qassam Brigades).
Israeli
forces surrounded a building in the old city of Nablus early Tuesday before
targeting it with a shoulder-fired missile, an Israeli statement said,
triggering an exchange of gunfire.
The
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant
group, said on Telegram that its members in Nablus were involved in
"violent confrontations with enemy special forces as they stormed the old
city."
About
40 people were injured, several critically, in the violent exchanges, in
addition to the three men killed, according to Palestinian health ministry.
Israel
has accused Al Nabulsi of involvement in a series of recent shooting attacks on
Israelis in the West Bank.
The
fatal clashes look set to test the strength of a ceasefire restored for Gaza
just over twenty-four hours ago, which ended two days of Israeli airstrikes
against Islamic Jihad targets and rockets fired towards Israel.
An
Islamic Jihad spokesman told CNN Tuesday that Israel was arresting and killing
without any accountability.
"That
is why we decided to resist with our weapons. If we don't find weapons, we will
resist with stones, but we will not give up," spokesman Daoud Shihab said._CNN
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