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01-09-2024
OCCUPIED WEST BANK: At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in recent Israeli attacks across Gaza, including in Jabalia in the north and Khan Younis in the south, Gaza’s civil defence reports.
Siege of Jenin city by Israeli forces leaves Palestinian residents without food, water, electricity or internet access, as the most intense military raid on the occupied West Bank in decades continues.
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, says 20 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Israeli incursion on Wednesday, including a person with disabilities and several children.
A polio vaccination campaign due to begin in Gaza on Sunday comes as aid groups express concerns that ongoing Israeli attacks are limiting their ability to deliver food and healthcare.
At least 40,602 people have been killed and 93,855 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.
Media reported earlier that two Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank following a car exploding at a petrol station near the Gush Etzion Junction north of Hebron and an attack on the illegal Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur located some 8km (4.9 miles) south of the junction.
The Israeli military now says that an attacker entered the settlement in a car and was chased by a security patrol, which collided with the “terrorist’s vehicle”. The driver was then killed on exiting the vehicle but during an exchange of gunfire, a bomb in the suspect’s vehicle exploded.
Three members of the Israeli forces were slightly wounded in the attack, the military reports.
The military also confirmed that the explosion at a petrol station near the Gush Etzion Junction was an attempted car bombing, and a suspect was “eliminated”.
A major search by Israeli forces is under way in the Karmei Tzur area to “rule out the presence of additional terrorists”, the military said.
Israel’s military said it shot dead two Palestinians in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank.
The army said its forces responded to a car exploding at a petrol station in the Gush Etzion Junction south of Bethlehem, and when they arrived, a man “who exited the vehicle and attempted to attack” soldiers was killed.
In a second incident around 8km away (4.9 miles), a car rammed the entrance of the illegal settlement of Karmei Tzur and a second Palestinian was killed by Israeli soldiers in that incident.
The Israeli military has mounted a large operation in both areas following the incidents.
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it was treating two people who were injured by gunfire at the Gush Etzion Junction and a third who was injured in a car collision related to the incidents.
Reporters have obtained and verified footage that is said to show the aftermath of the blast at Gush Etzion and what appears to be the shooting of a suspect.
Three Palestinians have been killed and more than 20 wounded in an Israeli bombing of a home in the Jorat al-Lout area south of Khan Younis, reporters are reporting.
The attack comes as Palestinians returned to the city in the south of the Gaza Strip after Israeli troops withdrew to find widespread destruction and the bodies of at least nine people. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
