Major Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in the West Bank: A Timeline

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Major ********-************ Clashes in the West Bank: A Timeline

Since ******’s surprise Oct. 7 ******* on *******, which ******* about 1,200 people,

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have been ******* in the West Bank, according to the ******* Nations, as ******* has ramped up military raids there and ********* by extremist ******* settlers has increased.

Many Palestinians have ***** in Jenin or its ******** camp, long strongholds of the armed groups ****** and Islamic ******; in Tulkarm, a West Bank city near the ******** border; and in the nearby Nur Shams neighborhood. On Wednesday, the ******** military said it had begun a raid focusing on Jenin and Tulkarm, and that nine people it described as militants had been *******.

Here are some of the notable recent ******** military operations in the territory:

July 3-5, 2023: ******* launched its largest military operation in years against armed groups in the West Bank, a raid meant to curb attacks by armed Palestinians on Israelis. ******* carried out deadly airstrikes, which had not happened there in about two decades.

Twelve Palestinians were ******* during the operation, which involved about 1,000 ******** soldiers. Militant groups claimed at least nine of them as members. One ******** soldier was also *******, possibly mistakenly by a fellow soldier. Thousands of people fled their homes and ******* detained and interrogated many others. Here are pictures of the raid.

Oct. 19, 2023: At least 13 Palestinians and one ******** officer were ******* in clashes, less than two weeks after the ******-led attacks in southern *******. At least five of the 13 Palestinians were children.

The worst clashes were in Nur Shams. *******’s military said that it was “thwarting ********** infrastructure and confiscating weapons” in the operation — and that Palestinians had fought back, ********* and throwing improvised ******.

Dec. 12-14, 2023: An ******** raid ******* at least 12 people during a two-and-a-half-day incursion in Jenin. A 13-year-old was pronounced ***** at a hospital after his father carried him there, according to the medical charity

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, which said ******** armored cars had blocked ambulances.

At least 34 other people were injured. The ************ Prisoners Club, a rights group, said that at least 100 Palestinians had been arrested.

******* disciplined three soldiers for a video showing some of them singing a ******* prayer in a mosque in Jenin during the raid. The footage had circulated widely online.

Jan. 7, 2024: At least nine Palestinians and an ******** officer were ******* during a day of *********. A drone strike ******* seven men in pre-dawn clashes during an incursion into Jenin. Four were brothers, aged 22 to 29, the ************ Authority’s official news agency, Wafa, said.

******** soldiers ******* an eighth man in the central West Bank, ************ health officials said. And a 3-year-old girl was *******, apparently by errant *****, when ******** forces said they shot at a car that rammed a checkpoint near Jerusalem.

The ******** border police officer was ******* when a ***** blew up her military vehicle.

Jan. 30, 2024: ******** soldiers raided a hospital and fatally shot a ****** commander in a patient’s room. During the brief incursion, some of the soldiers were wearing medical garb, surveillance footage showed, as they brandished their guns in the hospital. Two other men were also ******* in the *********.

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