Two Palestinians died today in armed clashes with Israeli troops in the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp, near the town of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, bringing the number of Palestinian deaths in the area closer to two hundred so far. anus.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the deceased as Asid Abu Ali, 21 years old; and Abed al Rahman Abu Daghash, 32; both dead after being shot in the head.
The Israeli security forces carried out an operation this morning to dismantle a command center of Palestinian armed groups in the Nur Shams camp, where they found dozens of explosives ready to be used in "terrorist activities", the Israeli Army reported. .
"They located a building and dismantled a command center inside that contained observation devices, computers and technological devices. In addition, they located another room and neutralized dozens of ready-to-use explosive devices and a large number of components to manufacture more explosive devices." , indicated a military spokesperson about this joint operation of the Army, the Border Police and the Internal Security Agency (Shin Bet).
Troops used engineering vehicles to discover explosives located under roads and many of them exploded, and Palestinian gunmen opened fire and threw explosives at Israeli forces, who responded with live fire, the army said.
"Impacts were identified," a military spokesman said of the casualties on the Palestinian side; that he further reported that a soldier was slightly injured by shrapnel and was evacuated to the hospital for treatment.
The occupied West Bank and Israel are experiencing their greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05) and in 2023, 199 Palestinians have already died in the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most of them militiamen in armed confrontations with Israeli troops and attackers, but also civilians, including 36 minors.
In parallel, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groups, which carry out more and more attacks and have left 32 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, five of them minors, and 4 in uniform.
Also this Sunday, Israeli security forces detained eight Hamas-linked Palestinian students from Birzeit University near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank on suspicion of planning a "terrorist attack in the immediate future."
The students were captured following an investigation into cells captured by the Islamist movement Hamas in Palestinian educational institutions, according to a joint statement from the Israeli Army and the Shin Bet (the internal security agency).
The young people were members of Kutla Islamia, a student group linked to Hamas and which Israel accuses of recruiting students at universities throughout the West Bank to implicate them in "terrorist activities."
During the operation, Israeli forces located incitement materials, Hamas flags and technological devices.
