Israeli forces killed at least two Palestinians on Thursday March 31 during an operation in the West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian man stabbed and injured a passenger on an Israeli bus near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank before being shot dead by another passenger, the Israeli military said.
The situation seems to be escalating in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the wake of a deadly attack near Tel Aviv, which killed five people, including two Ukrainian workers and an Israeli Arab policeman, in the suburbs of the Israeli metropolis. .
After this attack, the Israeli forces carried out, early Thursday morning, an operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin, sector of the north of the occupied West Bank.
Two young Palestinians, aged 17 and 23, were killed "by the Israeli occupation forces who were carrying out an incursion into the area of Jenin", said the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Other officials also reported serious injuries in these armed clashes.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad, the second Palestinian armed Islamist movement after Hamas and very present in the Jenin sector, has asked its members to be on alert.
"In the light of the events in the camp (...) the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad announces a general mobilization of the Al-Quds brigades (armed wing)", indicated this movement led by Ziad Nakhalé, based in Damascus.
Palestinian stabs bus passenger
Later on Thursday morning, on a bus traveling near the Israeli settlement in the southern West Bank, Elazar, a Palestinian man stabbed a passenger, seriously injuring him, before being shot dead by an armed passenger also on board, it said. the Israeli army.
In Jerusalem, far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir, known for his incendiary statements about the Palestinians, went Thursday morning to the esplanade of the Mosques, called Temple Mount by the Jews, a few days before the start of the Ramadan celebrations.
“All night Hamas threatened me, saying I was in the line of fire, and told me not to come here. on the spot Mr. Ben Gvir at the head of the "religious Zionism" party.
In 2000, the controversial visit of the leader of the Israeli right Ariel Sharon on the esplanade served as a trigger for the second Intifada, a Palestinian uprising.
"I don't understand why Israel doesn't eliminate him (the Hamas spokesman) in a targeted elimination, he's a terrorist... My visit here is to convey a simple message, I don't 'don't give up and I don't surrender, and Israel must not surrender to these terrorists who want to kill us all,' he said as he walked past the Dome of the Rock escorted by guards.
The esplanade of the Mosques, under the authority of Jordan but whose entry points have been controlled by Israel since the capture of East Jerusalem in 1967, was the scene last year during Ramadan, the month of Muslim fasting, clashes between the Israeli army and the Palestinians.
The clashes, which left hundreds injured, led to a deadly 11-day war between the Islamists of Hamas, in power in Gaza, and the Israeli army.
Over the past few days, senior Israeli officials, including President Issac Herzog and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, have traveled to Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II, who in turn has visited the President Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas in the hope of calming the situation as Ramadan approaches, starting at the end of the week this year.
The incidents come on the heels of several deadly attacks in Israel in recent days, killing a total of 11 people.
With AFP and Reuters
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