The Israeli army said it was attacked during an “anti-terrorist operation in the Nablus area.”
Published on 04/01/2025 09:02
Updated on 04/01/2025 09:32
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The Palestinian authorities announced, on the night of Friday January 3 to Saturday January 4, that an Israeli military operation in a refugee camp in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, had left one dead and nine injured. An 18-year-old young man, Mohammad Medhat Amin Amer, “was killed by occupation bullets [israélienne] in the Balata camp”declared the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority, also reporting nine injuries, “including four in serious condition”.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli troops entered the camp from the Awarta checkpoint and “deployed snipers on the roofs of surrounding buildings.”
The Israeli army responded on Saturday morning that it had been attacked during a “anti-terrorist operation in the Nablus region”. “Terrorists planted explosives in the area to attack the soldiers and threw explosives, Molotov cocktails, stones and pyrotechnic devices”she clarified. “The troops fired at the terrorists in order to eliminate the threat”added the army, stressing that none of its soldiers had been injured.
Violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has exploded in the West Bank since the start of the war triggered by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023. At least 815 Palestinians have been killed there by soldiers or Israeli settlers, according to data from the Palestinian Authority, which holds partial administrative authority in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967. In at the same time, according to official Israeli data, at least 25 Israelis, civilians or soldiers, were killed there in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military raids.
