Israeli troops and special forces on an arrest mission exchanged fire with Palestinians barricaded in a house in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police said. The ꦿlocal rescue service said two Palestinians were killed.
Israeli police said a number of armed Palestinians were killed during the hours-long battle deep inside 🐻the city of Nablus, without specifying. Police said no Israeli forces were wounded.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said the two men were killed in clashes with the ♍military in Nablus and iℱdentified them as Aboud Sobh, 29, and Muhammad Al-Azizi, 22.
Israeli Prime Minister A said the suspects had been wanted for a seriesꦺ of shootings.
“We won't sit and wait for ꧅Israeli citizens to be harmed," he told a meet🎃ing of his Cabinet. "We will go out and harm the terrorists in their homes.”
The military said a vi𒅌olent protest broke out as troops were operating in Nablus, with protesters hurling explosive dev☂ices at soldiers and opening fire at them. The soldiers fired back, the military said.
The military was continuing to𒁃 operate in another area of the West Bank, where another brief exchange of fire took place.
Israeli forces have been c𒆙arrying out near-daily raids in the West Bank for months, in a bid to quell a spate of attacks by Palestinians on Israelis that has si🌄nce subsided.
The military has faced resistance during some of those 🔜raids, which in several 🦩instances have turned deadly.
The Palestinian attacks on Israelis earlier this year killed 19 people. More than 60 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the year, according to an official Palestinian tally.
