Shooting operation in West Bank targets Israeli settler bus

March 28, 2024

By Al Mayadeen English

At least 10 were injured in a shooting operation on a bus in the Jordan Valley area transporting Israeli settlers.

A man passes by a car destroyed by an IOF raid in the occupied West Bank in Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP)

Al Mayadeen‘s correspondent in occupied Palestine reported today that several Israeli settlers were injured, one of them with a serious injury, in a shooting operation in the Jordan Valley area in the occupied West Bank adding that the IOF are pursuing the shooter. 

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She added that the operation took place on “Street 90” in the Jordan Valley area, as Israeli settler vehicles were targeted. 

Israeli media reported that at least 10 were injured in the shooting operation, adding that the IOF are conducting search operations in an attempt to find the executors of the operation. 

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In an interview with Israeli Channel 12, the head of the International and Middle East Arenas in the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at the Israeli Reichman University, Shay Har-Zvi, commented on this operation stressing that if “we combine” what happened in the Jordan Valley area today with what has been happening since this morning in the occupied north, it is a clear indication that the situation is “explosive” and that its deterioration is happening rapidly. 

IOF kill one in Jenin amid large-scale West Bank confrontations

Palestinian youth Ayman Azouqa was killed early March 27 by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire during confrontations that erupted in Jenin in the occupied West Bank following an Israeli military incursion into the city overnight on March 26. 

Before succumbing to his wounds, Azouqa was transported by the Palestine Red Crescent Society crews from the al-Marah neighborhood while suffering from severe injuries due to bullet wounds in the chest and thigh.

According to Palestinian journalist Mohammad Hamdan, before medical crews rushed to the scene, the Israeli occupation forces had prevented anyone from coming close to Azouqa and left him bleeding.

Hamdan told Al Mayadeen that Palestinian Resistance fighters engaged in confrontations with Israeli snipers deployed in a neighborhood overlooking wide areas of Jenin and its camp, adding that Israli occupation forces carried out a widespread raid, during which they employed new tactics.

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Deaths, injuries in double operation in occupied al-Quds

30 Nov 2023

Source: Agencies

Site of the operation in occupied al-Quds, Thursday, November 30, 2023 (Social media)

By Al Mayadeen English

Another operation was carried out in the Jordan Valley, which resulted in the injury of two Israeli soldiers.

Israeli media reported earlier this morning that three settlers were killed and several were injured in a shooting operation in the settlement of “Ramot” in occupied al-Quds.

Six were injured in the operation, four of whom are in serious condition.

Later, in another operation, Israeli media revealed that a Palestinian ran over a number of soldiers, injuring two of them at the “Beka’ot” checkpoint in the Jordan Valley.

The Palestinian who carried out the ramming operation in the Jordan Valley was martyred after being shot.

Israeli media reported that the two Palestinians who conducted the operation in al-Quds arrived by car at the bus station and opened fire at the settlers there.

They were identified as the two brothers Murad Nimr (38 years old) and Ibrahim Nimr (30 years old) from the town of Sur Baher, south of occupied al-Quds. They are liberated prisoners and belong to the Hamas movement.

The Israeli police commander in al-Quds reported that the Palestinians who conducted the operation were killed.

The Israeli army radio reported that preliminary investigations indicate that the operation was bipartite involving both a ramming and a shooting. 

Shortly after the shooting operation, Israeli occupation forces deployed units to the site.

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Israeli media pointed out that “almost a year ago today, a similar operation had taken place in the same location.”

Channel 12 reported that this is “the fourth and most deadly operation we have witnessed in Jerusalem [Al-Quds] since the start of the war in Gaza.”

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Despite the large Israeli police presence, in addition to armed settlers, the threat of Resistance operations remains grave, a Channel 12 correspondent reported, noting a recent uptick in Resistance operations. 

Additionally, the military correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth  said, “The circumstances of the Jerusalem operation and the weapons used indicate that there was prior planning for its execution.”

This comes as Israeli occupation forces ramp up their aggression on the West Bank, raiding towns, surrounding hospitals, and killing children and youths in cold blood, amid a truce ongoing in Gaza with the IOF not failing to violate it every now and then. 

Just yesterday, two Palestinian children, ages 9 and 15, were killed in cold blood in Jenin.

Later at night, Israeli occupation forces conducted raids in the towns of Beitunia west of Ramallah and Tulkarm, firing tear gas and assaulting the family of soon-to-be-released prisoners Nohad and Mohammad Jadallah in Tulkarm.

Meanwhile, Palestinian youth Fadi Muayyad Badran was killed during confrontations with the Israeli occupation in the town of Beitunia, west of the city of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, in addition to several injuries.

The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the injury of 5 Palestinians with live bullets, with one described as being in a “very serious” condition, in confrontations that followed an attack by the Israeli occupation forces on the masses gathered to receive the liberated Palestinian prisoners. 

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