Health officials said that an Israeli military operation on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of two Palestinian males and the injuries of four others.
According to the hospital director, the men were slain when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd of bystanders gathered in front of the emergency room of the Jenin Government Hospital. According to him, Rabih Al-Noursi and Mahmoud Abu-Haija perished from serious bullet wounds.
The Israel Defense Forces have been contacted by CNN to provide a statement on the shooting.
Seen in Jenin: Early on Wednesday morning, CNN was able to capture footage showing Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invading Jenin. It is evident that bulldozers are tearing up power poles, wrecking sewage systems, and ruining streets.
Speaking about the raid into Jenin, The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they had “arrested a wanted man” and that their “fighters uncovered and destroyed charges planted under routes to harm the troops.”
Six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in separate events that occurred hours apart in and around occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to health officials.
Among them is a 12-year-old Palestinian child who, according to the IDF, “endangered the forces while firing aerial fireworks in their direction” before being shot and killed by a border police officer in the Shuafat refugee camp.
In addition, the municipality of Al Jib, which is north of Jerusalem, saw the shooting deaths of a 16- and a 23-year-old. The Palestinians “threw Molotov cocktails over a security barrier fence,” according to the IDF, which runs alongside Givat Ze’ev, an Israeli settlement.
The death toll also includes a 15-year-old Palestinian kid who, according to Israeli police, was thought to have been involved in a stabbing incident at a military checkpoint connecting Bethlehem, the occupied West Bank city, with Jerusalem.
