The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced yesterday the death of three Palestinians in clashes with the Israeli army in the West Bank. While the Palestinian presidency condemned the "dangerous Israeli escalation" by the occupation forces, 14 Israeli soldiers were wounded in a car run over in central East Jerusalem, according to the Israeli authorities.

In detail, the Ministry of Health said in a statement that “Tariq Ahmad Badwan was martyred in Jenin due to critical injuries from live bullets in the abdomen, at dawn yesterday. He is the second martyr »who falls in the clashes.

For his part, a security source said that Badwan (25 years old) "was from the Palestinian police forces and was wounded while he was in the yard of the police headquarters near a house that the Israeli forces stormed to demolish him in the city of Jenin, where clashes broke out."

Medical sources in the West Bank city of Jenin said that the young man, Yazan Abu Tabikh, 19, was shot and killed by the Israeli army at dawn yesterday during clashes between youths and the Israeli forces during their storming of the city and the demolition of a Palestinian house accused by Israel of participating in the implementation of a 2018 operation in which an Israeli was killed.

An Israeli military spokesman said that the forces went to Jenin to demolish a Palestinian house involved in the killing of a Jewish settler in 2018. The spokesman said that the forces opened fire on Palestinians who fired at them and threw Molotov cocktails in Jenin.

The day before yesterday, Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank, who he said had thrown it with a Molotov cocktail during protests marred by violence over US President Donald Trump's peace plan. He was the first to be killed since the announcement of Trump's plan.

For his part, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that he had dealt with five injuries in the city of Jenin with five injuries.

Clashes took place in the city of Bethlehem, according to an AFP correspondent.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that it had treated 79 injuries during clashes in the city of Bethlehem since yesterday morning, including 75 cases of tear gas.

"The crews assisted 50 children in a kindergarten, as a result of firing gas bombs on a kindergarten," she said, noting that four people were hit with rubber bullets, one of them with a head injury.

In Ramallah, the Palestinian presidency condemned the "dangerous Israeli escalation" after the killing of three Palestinians and the injury of dozens during the past 24 hours.

In a statement published by the official Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said that the escalation taking place as a result of the US administration's announcement of its peace plan last week.

Abu Rudeina said, "The deal of the century created the atmosphere of escalation and tension with the attempted imposition of false facts on the ground, which we have already warned against again and again." He added that «any deal that does not meet the rights of our people and does not aim to make a just and comprehensive peace, will inevitably lead to this escalation that we are witnessing today.

On the other hand, Israeli media reported that 14 soldiers were injured in a car accident that ran over two stages in occupied Jerusalem. She added that the driver of the vehicle, who carried out the operation, withdrew from the scene, amid chaos among the soldiers.

The occupation police announced later that the car, which carried out the "run over the soldiers" operation, was found in Jerusalem near Bethlehem. Israeli sources said that the police had opened an investigation into "an offensive act" in Jerusalem.

Sources in Jerusalem reported that the Israeli authorities believed that the driver was a Palestinian from Jerusalem. Information indicates that the accident occurred at dawn in an area usually crowded.

The sources added that the atmosphere was charged between the Israelis and the Palestinians, noting that the Israeli authorities considered the operation a terrorist one.

The occupation authorities unloaded the cameras in the area to identify the driver’s identity and the direction of his escape.

For its part, Hamas considered the run-over of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem a "resistance act" in response to the announcement of the US President's peace plan.

"The resistance act in the heart of occupied Jerusalem is our people's practical response to the announcement of the Trump liquidation deal," Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement.

On the other hand, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, emphasized that "the resistance weapon cannot be placed in any plan or settlement."

"We will continue with the strategy of building force to include the West Bank and Jerusalem so that we can liberate our homeland and secure the right of return for our people," Haniyeh said in an interview with the official website of the movement.

Israel renews its raids on Gaza

Yesterday morning, Israel renewed its raids on the Gaza Strip, after it announced the launch of two mortar shells from the Gaza Strip on the south of its territory.

Palestinian sources said that the raids targeted agricultural lands in the southernmost city of Rafah, causing material damage, but no injuries were reported.

Witnesses and Palestinian security sources said that the strikes damaged houses in the north of Al Shati refugee camp, and affected installations near Rafah, at the far south of the Strip. This came after Israeli sources announced that two mortar shells had been fired from the Gaza Strip in an open area in an Israeli town adjacent to the Strip, without any injuries or damages. No Palestinian party has claimed responsibility for firing the rocket-propelled grenades, in light of the continuing field tension in the Gaza Strip for nearly two weeks, on an almost daily basis. On Wednesday evening, Israel announced that it would reduce the fishing area in front of Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip from 15 nautical miles to 10 nautical miles, under the pretext of responding to the firing of incendiary missiles and balloons from the Strip. Since US President Donald Trump announced last week his plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rockets, mortars and "incendiary balloons" have been launched almost daily from Gaza into southern Israel, calling for an Israeli response. Gaza ■ Agencies

- The Palestinian presidency condemns the dangerous Israeli escalation and criticizes the "Deal of the Century".

Hamas regards the run-over of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem as a "resistance act."