Israel announced on Friday that killed three Hamas fighters in the occupied West Bankraising the number of Palestinians killed in three days of military operation in this territory, where violence has escalated in parallel with the war in Gaza.
The Israeli operation in the West Bank, which began on Wednesday, “fuels an already explosive situation” in this territory occupied by Israel since 1967, the UN warned.
The intervention includes bombings and raids with armored convoys in cities such as Jenin, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem, and in two refugee camps.
According to Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, the army seeks to “dismantle the Iranian-Islamist terrorist infrastructures” in the Palestinian territory, separated from the Gaza Strip through Israeli land.
The operation takes place in parallel to the war against Hamas in Gazatriggered by the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in southern Israel on October 7.
“Too many innocent Palestinians have died,” US Vice President and White House candidate Kamala Harris lamented on Thursday.
However, in an interview with CNN, she said she would continue to supply arms to Israel, her ally, if she is elected president in November.
At least 19 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Wednesday, said the Israeli army and the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority, which partially administers the West Bank.
Witnesses told AFP on Friday of a Israeli bombing against a vehicle in Zababdeh, southeast of the town of Jenin.
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An AFP journalist also reported loud explosions in the city’s refugee camp, where he saw thick columns of smoke.
The day before, Israeli troops withdrew from other West Bank towns.