Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Reuters
Reuters
Politics

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank violence

Relatives of Palestinian Nader Ryan, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, react at his funeral in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Israeli border police described as clashes that erupted during a raid to detain suspected militants.

The Israeli border police said that during an operation in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, a gunman fired at undercover officers who shot back, "neutralising" him.

In a second refugee camp near Jerusalem, border police said forces on a separate arrest raid encountered hundreds of Palestinians who threw heavy objects from rooftops, endangering the troops.

Relatives of Palestinian Nader Ryan, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, react at his funeral in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

It was not immediately clear whether the Palestinian killed there had taken part in the clash.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the fatalities. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the incidents as extra-judicial killings.

"These crimes amount to war crimes and crimes against the international law that must be punished by the international law," it said in a statement.

Militants take part in the funeral of Palestinian Alaa Shaham, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, in Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

In Gaza, a spokesperson for the ruling Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Hazem Qassem, said: "We are witnessing a new uprising, a new era of the struggle that aims to end the existence of the occupation on this land."

Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem - territories where Palestinians seek statehood - in the 1967 Middle East war. The last round of peace talks collapsed in 2014.

The Palestinian Authority, set up under interim peace accords with Israel in the 1990s, exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, but Israeli forces are dominant in the area, where they often carry out raids to detain suspected militants.

(Reporting by Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem, Ali Sawafta in Ramallah and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Raissa Kasolowsky)

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.