PA updates wounded toll in Jenin to 62, including 14 seriously hurt
The Palestinian Authority health ministry updates the toll of those wounded during the Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin earlier.
According to the ministry, in addition to four Palestinians killed, another 62 were wounded during the clashes, including 14 listed in serious and critical condition.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops opened fire at gunmen and suspects hurling explosives during the raid. Additionally, the military said an Apache helicopter carried out strikes against an open area where armed Palestinians were, after a roadside bomb was detonated against an IDF convoy.
PA blasts Israel’s ‘massacre’ in Jenin, says it’s intended ‘to detonate the area’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh calls the Israeli operation and heavy clashes in Jenin a “massacre” and an attempt “to detonate the area and drag it into the violence box.”
He says Washington and the world must take action to “stop this Israeli madness.”
“International silence is what encourages the occupation government to continue its crimes and wage an all-out war against our Palestinian people, their land and their holy places,” he says.
Israel says gunmen attacked soldiers during an arrest operation in the early morning, leading to massive exchanges of fire.
Seven soldiers were wounded after an army vehicle was hit by an explosive device. Four Palestinians were killed in the clashes and over 60 were hurt. An Israeli helicopter gunship carried out rare strikes at the scene, the first in the West Bank in some two decades.
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