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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in 24 hours as West Bank violence surges</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By MEE staff - April 11, 2022<br></div>
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<div><p>Four <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> were shot dead by <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank within 24 hours on Sunday and Monday.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Just before midnight, Mohammad Ali Ghoneim, 21, was <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-shoot-kill-former-prisoner-west-bank-raid-tension-escalate" target="_blank">killed</a>
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. </p>
<p>Earlier in the day, Ghada Ibrahim al-Aridi, a 47-year-old widowed Palestinian mother of six, was <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-forces-kill-woman-west-bank" target="_blank">shot and killed</a> by an Israeli soldier in Husan village, west of Bethlehem.</p>
<p>Footage documenting the moment she was shot showed her posing no threat to the soldiers. No weapon was found on her.</p>
<p>Another Palestinian woman, Maha al-Zaatari, 24, was <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-fatally-shoot-second-palestinian-woman-west-bank" target="_blank">fatally shot</a> near the Ibrahimi Mosque Hebron on Sunday afternoon. Zaatari allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier before she was shot.</p>
<p>At least 35 Palestinians have been killed so far this year by Israeli forces in the West Bank.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<h3>Jenin camp on alert </h3>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Elsewhere in the West Bank, Palestinians staged demonstrations in
solidarity with Jenin, where most of the Israeli army operations have
been concentrated. </p>
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<p>Since Saturday, Israeli forces have <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-forces-kill-large-scale-raid-jenin-camp" target="_blank">raided</a>
the northern West Bank city multiple times leading to gunfights with
Palestinian resistance fighters who mostly live in its fortified refugee
camp. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Jenin camp is now living in anticipation of more Israeli attacks. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Civilians have been told through loudspeakers of the camp's mosques
to avoid the streets and remain vigilant ahead of potential raids. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, Bennett said after a security cabinet on Sunday that Israel "has gone on the offensive" in light of recent violence. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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