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Israel presses West Bank raids, kills 33 Palestinians

Israeli forces conduct West Bank raids, 33 Palestinians killed
MENA
21 min read
03 September, 2024
Israeli forces injured five children in Gaza and killed one teenager in the West Bank, as the pause in fighting for polio vaccinations ended.

(TNA’s live coverage of the latest from the war on Gaza concludes for today)

Israeli forces were operating Tuesday in the northern West Bank, a week into military raids in the occupied territory that the Palestinian health ministry said killed at least 33.

It also reported that 130 people have been injured during this period.

These latest figures bring the total number of fatalities in the occupied territory since Israel's war on Gaza began last October to 685, with the number of injured rising to 5,700.

In the latest bloodshed, two Palestinian men were killed in "Israeli aggression on the Dhnaba suburb, east of Tulkarem", the Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement.

In separate violence on Tuesday, a 16-year-old girl was killed by the Israeli army in the town of Kfar Dan, in Jenin governorate, the ministry said.

The military said it was aware of reports a 16-year-old girl had been killed during the exchange of fire.

An Israeli air strike overnight in Tulkarem killed a 15-year-old Palestinian, said a hospital source in the city.

In all, there had been "33 martyrs and about 130 wounded in the West Bank since Wednesday" when the Israeli military launched a series of coordinated raids, a ministry statement said.

Nineteen have been killed in Jenin governorate, seven in Tulkarem and four in Tubas, it said.

The death toll of 33 given by the ministry includes three deaths in the Hebron area in the southern West Bank, in incidents unrelated to the raids in the north.