Three Palestinians Killed And Eight Injured In Israeli Military Operation In West Bank

Israeli army illustration. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

JAKARTA - At least three Palestinians were killed and eight others injured, in a military operation carried out in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

While on the other hand, the Israeli military said its soldiers were involved in a shootout with the insurgents, reported The National News on June 17.

Israeli forces have carried out near-daily attacks in the occupied West Bank, since a series of attacks earlier this year that killed 19 people in Israel.

Many of the raids and arrests took place in and around Jenin, the hometown of some of those Israel accuses of carrying out attacks on its citizens.

The military said it raided two locations looking for weapons. At first, he said, the army retaliated after Palestinians opened fire and threw explosive devices.

On their way to the second location, they again exchanged fire with armed Palestinians in a vehicle, the army said.

The Israeli side did not say whether any of the militants were killed. However, they said his troops confiscated rifles, submachine guns, and other equipment from the vehicle.

Loud gunfire can be heard in the video circulating on social media. Later, footage on social media showed a bullet-ridden vehicle with bloodstains and residents inspecting it.

Hundreds of angry residents gathered outside Jenin hospital after the overnight raid, chanting 'God is great', calling for vengeance, before carrying the three bodies on a stretcher through the city in a spontaneous funeral procession.

The plan, the bodies of the three residents who died will be buried on Friday night local time.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 war, while the Palestinians want it to be a major part of their future state. Meanwhile, the last serious peace talks broke down more than a decade ago, leaving no end in sight for Israel's 55-year-old military rule.