Palestinians threw stones in response to the Israeli military raid. PHOTO: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli raid in a rare daytime operation in a city in the occupied West Bank, with over 100 more injured, Palestinian health officials say.The victims of the raid in Nablus include a 72-year-old man as well as 2 senior militants, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The raid comes at a time of very high tensions. A previous Israeli raid in January in Jenin, also in the occupied West Bank, killed 10 Palestinians. The next day, a Palestinian gunman killed 7 people near a synagogue in an East Jerusalem settlement. Later, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, which retaliated with airstrikes. Hamas, the militant group that governs more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, warned on Wednesday that its “patience is running out.”A video shared by Middle East Monitor, the British-based lobby group, appears to show an Israeli armoured vehicle ramming civilians in Nablus on Wednesday while the military operation was ongoing.
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Israel currently has the most right-wing government in the country’s history, including Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who protested against the landmark Oslo Peace Talks in the 1990s and was also convicted for incitement to racism. Last week, Israel approved a law to strip Palestinians of their citizenship and deport them from Israel if they are found guilty of “acts of terror”.