As Israel Keeps Fighting in West Bank, Residents in One Battle Zone Reel From the Damage

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As ******* Keeps Fighting in West Bank, Residents in One Battle Zone Reel From the Damage

The current ******** raids have targeted ************ militants in Jenin and Tulkarm, who the ******** military says have attempted more than 150 attacks on Israelis over the past year. Earlier this month, ****** and Islamic ****** — two major ************ armed groups — took responsibility for an attempted ******** in Tel Aviv that moderately injured one passerby and ******* the assailant.

The ******** operation in Tulkarm focused on Nur Shams, which ***** on the outskirts of the city. Historically a ******** camp for Palestinians following the 1948 war surrounding *******’s establishment, it is now a built-up neighborhood and a ************ militant stronghold.

******** forces have swept through it multiple times since Oct. 7, often for hours on end, tearing up roads and damaging buildings. ******** drones launched attacks from the air — once rare in the West Bank but now common — targeting militants in cars and houses.

On Friday, one family marched through the area’s streets bearing the body of Ayed Abu al-Heija, an older relative ******* during the raid. He lived alone, did not work and suffered from mental illness that left him unable to care for himself without help, his family said.

Haitham Abu al-Heija, a 53-year-old nephew, said he heard a gunshot ring out Wednesday as he huddled in his house, fearing he might be caught in the crossfire. He later peered gingerly out of a window and saw his uncle lying *****, the door of his house ajar, he said.

“He couldn’t understand the danger,” he said in a phone interview.

The following day, ******** troops raided his own house, forcing him and his family outside, he said. The rattle of gunfire and intermittent explosions terrified his children, he said, as they waited, exposed, for roughly an hour in the open.

Surrounded by soldiers, he turned to see his uncle’s body still lying in the doorway, he said. When the soldiers let them go back inside, they found a massive blast ***** in one of the rooms.

“May no one ever have to go through what we did these last few days,” he said.

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