West Bank: two Palestinians killed in the aftermath of an attack in Israel

Two Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed on Friday March 10 by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, where tensions remain high in the aftermath of a Palestinian attack which left three injured in Tel Aviv.

Amir Odeh, 16, died of gunshot wounds to the chest, fired by

" (Israel, editor's note) in the town of Qalqilya, the Palestinian health ministry reported.

Requested by AFP, the army indicated that a "

" had approached a military position in the Qalqilya sector, had "

", to which the soldiers had "

", and hit one person.

Aftermath of an attack

Earlier on Friday, the military said a '

' had been killed after entering the area of ​​Dorot Illit settlement, near Qalqilya, where '

' had “

him ”.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said it was informed of the death of a 21-year-old Palestinian man killed by settler fire in this area.

These two deaths come the day after a gun attack in the center of Tel Aviv left three injured, men aged 32, 34 and 36.

One of them is still in critical condition, according to the hospital he was admitted to.

Two family members of the Palestinian man who carried out the attack, Motaz Khawaja, 23, have been arrested, the army announced on Friday.

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Two residents arrested

The police said they had arrested two residents of Arab Israeli localities suspected of having transported the assailant, a member of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

He opened fire on Thursday around 8:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. Paris time) on Dizengoff Avenue, before being shot dead by police.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he had given the order to "

" to destroy his house in Nilin, near Ramallah in the central West Bank, where Israeli forces went to destroy records for such destruction.

The European Union (EU) has called on "

" after "

".

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“End the cycle of violence”

"

," said the spokesman for the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell.

Hamas did not claim responsibility for the attack but called Khawaja a "

" and presented

" as a "

".

At a Friday Hamas rally in the Gaza Strip, senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri hailed the "

”, a city in the West Bank that is the scene of recurring violence.

Six Palestinians, including the author of an anti-Israeli attack, were killed there on Tuesday March 7 during an Israeli military raid.

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The need for “de-escalation”

The Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group, promised that "

", according to one of its leaders in Gaza, Khaled el-Batsh.

Also Thursday evening, in Betar Illit, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank southwest of Jerusalem, the Israeli army said that deminers had neutralized a suspicious package discovered on board a bus.

Visiting Israel as part of a Middle East tour, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the United States was "particularly concerned"

recent settler abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by Israel.

Lloyd Austin also insisted on the need for "

" and "

", due to start at the end of March.

Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of 78 Palestinians (including members of armed groups and civilians, including minors), 12 civilians (including three minors) and one Israeli policeman, as well than a Ukrainian, according to an AFP tally compiled from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.