Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinians in the West Bank

Members of the Israeli Army killed two young Palestinians tonight who allegedly shot at the Salem military post, located west of the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. According to a military statement released this Saturday (04/27/2024), the assailants arrived at the post in a vehicle and fired at it with rifles.

“The soldiers, who were positioned due to several similar incidents in the past, eliminated two terrorists and confiscated the two M16 rifles used to carry out the attack,” the military note states. The Army published a photograph of two automatic rifles that it said were used to shoot at soldiers, located at an outpost near the Palestinian city of Jenin, a conflict point even before the start of the war in the Strip. Loop.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa identifies the dead as Mustafa Sultan Abed, 22, and Ahmad Mohamed Shawahna, 21. It also notes that two other young men were injured and taken to hospital. According to security sources cited by the Palestinian agency, the young people died due to shots fired by the “occupation forces” against a group of people who were around the military checkpoint.

The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05), and so far in 2024 at least 161 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, most of them suspected militants or attackers, but also civilians, including about one thirty of them minors, according to Efe’s count, after closing 2023 as the deadliest year in two decades with more than 520 deaths.

Violence in the West Bank, which was already on the rise before the war, has increased since the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, after which the Israeli Army intensified its already frequent incursions into the occupied Palestinian area, where people have died since then. at least 486 Palestinians in violent incidents with Israel, carried out mainly by troops, but also by settlers, the last one a week ago.