Palestinian authorities say seven people were killed during an Israeli military attack and airstrike around the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian authorities say seven people were killed Friday during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank around the city of Jenin, where the Israeli military said it had been carrying out “counterterrorism activity” that included an airstrike. The military said Israeli soldiers had “encircled a building where terrorists have barricaded themselves in” and the soldiers had exchanged fire with those inside, while an airstrike had “struck several armed terrorists” in the area.
The construction plans revealed by the Peace Now group are part of the hard-line government’s efforts to beef up settlements as part of a strategy of cementing Israel’s control over the West Bank to prevent a future Palestinian state. The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — for an independent state. Violence has spiraled in the West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, sparked by the Oct.
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