In the last 72 hours, Israeli security forces launched
one of their largest attacks against the
occupied West Bank since the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7, with an operation in the Palestinian town of Tulkarem that has caused at least ten deaths.
The Israeli military said it has killed "ten terrorists" during a raid that began Thursday night in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the town of Tulkarem, just the same day it attacked Iran in response to the launch of more of three hundred drones and missiles against Israel by Tehran, with no indication this Saturday that the escalation between both countries will continue.
Israeli forces arrested eight people,
destroyed an explosives laboratory and confiscated numerous weapons
and military equipment in the operation in the occupied West Bank, according to a military statement.
Eight soldiers and one border police agent were injured during the operation, according to the text.
The Martyrs of al Aqsa militia group confirmed on social media the death of the leader of the Tulkarem brigade, Mohamed Yaber, alias "Abu Shuya", who was apparently the target of the Israeli assault on that Palestinian territory.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05), and so far in 2024 at least 143 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, most of them suspected militants or attackers, but also civilians, including about one thirty minors, according to EFE's count.
The Israeli Army intensified its already frequent incursions into the occupied West Bank after the Hamas attack on October 7 and, since then, some 473 Palestinians have died in violent incidents with Israel, mainly with troops but also with settlers.
The war in Gaza
In the Gaza Strip, at least 37 people were killed and 68 injured in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry's tally.
In its daily report on data collected by hospitals in the Strip, the ministry reported "four massacres against families" in the Palestinian enclave.
At least nine people from the same family, six of them children, were killed in one of the attacks
that hit a residential building in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, in the west of the southern city of Rafah.
Their bodies were taken to the morgue of the Abu Yusef al Nayar hospital, where family and friends said goodbye to them amid moments of anguish and despair, as EFE was able to confirm.
Thus, since the war between Israel and Hamas began, 34,049 people have been killed and 76,901 wounded in the Israeli offensive.
Criticism of the United States
While the Israeli authorities continue
to remain silent about Friday's attack against Iran
, the one who did speak this Saturday was the Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, to attack the United States for its veto in the UN Security Council to prevent the entry of Palestine in the United Nations as a full member.
For Abbas, Washington's vote represents a "flagrant aggression" against the rights of the Palestinian people and a "defiance of the will of the international community."
"We will reconsider bilateral relations with the United States to ensure the protection of the interests of our people, our cause and our rights," said the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), in an interview with the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
On Thursday, the US vetoed the resolution, which received the support of 12 members, the abstention of two (the United Kingdom and Switzerland) and only the opposite vote of Washington.
"The United States has violated all international laws and has broken all the promises it talks about regarding the two-state solution and achieving peace in the region," said Abbas, who called on the Administration of President Joe Biden to review its "wrong policies."
Source: EFE
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