► West Bank: Palestinian authorities announce one dead and nine injured in an Israeli raid
The Palestinian authorities announced on the night of Friday January 3 to Saturday January 4 that one person had been killed and nine others injured in a refugee camp in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, during a raid by the Israeli army, who claims to have responded to an attack.
An 18-year-old young man, Mohammad Medhat Amin Amer, “was killed by (Israeli) occupation bullets in the Balata camp”indicated in a press release the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority, also reporting nine injured, “including four in serious condition”.
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.
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”.
-► War in Gaza: Hamas health ministry announces 59 deaths in 24 hours
The Hamas government’s health ministry for the Gaza Strip announced Saturday that at least 59 people had been killed in the past 24 hours in the Palestinian territory, the scene of nearly 15 months of war with Israel.
This brings the total death toll to 45,717, he said in a statement, adding that 108,856 people had also been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Islamist movement. Palestinian Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
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