A child and two elderly people were among at least 10 Palestinians who were killed Wednesday morning by Israeli military forces conducting a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
People protest the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army in Nablus, near the Israel-Gaza border, on February 22, 2023.
The attack brings the number of Palestinians killed in the occupied territories by the Israel Defense Forces to 61 since the beginning of the year — a rate of more than one per day,The IDF drove dozens of armored vehicles into the Nablus city center at 10 am and blocked off all entrances to the city as forces surrounded a building where two members of the Lion’s Den, a local Palestinian resistance group, were believed to be.
The military also fired tear gas, injuring a number of women and children who ambulances were blocked from reaching, an eyewitness named Nabeela Suliman told“It was very scary,” Suliman told the outlet. “We could hear the sounds of explosions and people screaming in the street, and many of us started crying and praying to God to protect the city and its residents.”
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