[News] Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in 24 hours as West Bank violence surges

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Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in 24 hours as West Bank violence
surges
By MEE staff - April 11, 2022
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Four Palestinians <https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine> were
shot dead by Israeli <https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel>
forces in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank within 24 hours
on Sunday and Monday.

Mohammad Zakarna, 17, was pronounced dead on Monday morning by the
Palestinian health ministry after succumbing to wounds he sustained on
Sunday during an Israeli army raid in Jenin.

Just before midnight, Mohammad Ali Ghoneim, 21, was killed
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by Israeli forces in another raid in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem. An
Israeli military spokesperson alleged Ghoneim was hurling a Molotov
cocktail towards an Israeli vehicle.

Earlier in the day, Ghada Ibrahim al-Aridi, a 47-year-old widowed
Palestinian mother of six, was shot and killed
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by an Israeli soldier in Husan village, west of Bethlehem.

Footage documenting the moment she was shot showed her posing no threat to
the soldiers. No weapon was found on her.

Another Palestinian woman, Maha al-Zaatari, 24, was fatally shot
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near the Ibrahimi Mosque Hebron on Sunday afternoon. Zaatari allegedly
tried to stab an Israeli soldier before she was shot.

At least 35 Palestinians have been killed so far this year by Israeli
forces in the West Bank.

The recent deaths come after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett granted
the security forces "full freedom of action" on Friday, following a deadly
shooting in Tel Aviv last week in which a Palestinian from Jenin killed
three Israelis.

In the last three weeks, a total of 14 Israelis were killed in four
separate shooting and stabbing attacks. All five assailants, Palestinians
from the West Bank and Israel, were subsequently killed.

"We are granting full freedom of action to the army, the Shin Bet and all
security forces to defeat the terror," Bennett said in a public address in
Tel Aviv. "There are not and will not be limits for this war."
Jenin camp on alert

More than 26 Palestinians were detained in several Israeli raids on Monday
morning across the West Bank as part of the ongoing Israeli crackdown. The
majority of arrests happened in Nablus, which has witnessed growing
confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers and settlers.

Two settlers were shot and wounded while trying to reach Joseph's Tomb in
Nablus, a flashpoint between Palestinians and Israelis, the Israeli army
said on Monday. The shrine, revered by Muslims and Jews, was reportedly
vandalised by residents a day earlier.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Palestinians staged demonstrations in
solidarity with Jenin, where most of the Israeli army operations have been
concentrated.

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The rise of Jenin's armed resistance

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Since Saturday, Israeli forces have raided
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the northern West Bank city multiple times leading to gunfights with
Palestinian resistance fighters who mostly live in its fortified refugee
camp.

Large troops raided the camp on Saturday morning in an attempt to arrest
Fathi Hazem, the father of Raad Hazem who carried out the Tel Aviv shooting
on Thursday.

They also mapped out his home for demolition as part of a policy condemned
by rights groups as a form of collective punishment against relatives of
those who carry out attacks against Israeli targets.

In another raid on Sunday, troops targeted Raad's brothers while he was
driving with his mother east of Jenin. Both Raad's father and his brother
managed to escape and refused to hand themselves over.

Jenin camp is now living in anticipation of more Israeli attacks.

As a result, an informal band of fighters from different Palestinian
factions, who call themselves the "Jenin Unit", said on Sunday that they
have gone on high alert.

Civilians have been told through loudspeakers of the camp's mosques to
avoid the streets and remain vigilant ahead of potential raids.

Meanwhile, Bennett said after a security cabinet on Sunday that Israel "has
gone on the offensive" in light of recent violence.

The security cabinet also approved a $112m plan to build an additional 40
kilometres of the separation wall along the informal border with the West
Bank.
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