Palestinian militants kill 3 Israeli police in the West Bank – National

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************ militants ***** 3 ******** police in the West Bank – National

JERUSALEM (AP) — ************ militants ******* three ******** police officers on Sunday when they opened ***** on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, where ******* has carried out large-scale raids in recent days.

The ******* took place along a road in the southern West Bank. The raids have mainly been focused on urban ******** camps in the northern part of the territory, where ******** forces have traded ***** with militants on a near-daily basis since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.

The police confirmed that all three ******* were officers and said the assailants slipped away.

One of the officers ******* was Roni Shakuri, 61, from the southern town of Sderot near the Gaza border, police said. His daughter, Mor, who was also a police officer, was ******* in a battle with ****** militants when they tried to take over the Sderot police station during the Oct. 7 *******.

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A little-known militant group calling itself the Khalil al-Rahman Brigade claimed responsibility for the ********* on Sunday. ****** praised the ******* as a “natural response” to the war in Gaza and called for more.

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Later on Sunday, ******** forces encircled a home in the nearby city of Hebron where the army said the suspected attacker was believed to be hiding. At least six soldiers moved in on the structure, repeatedly opening ***** and tossing a grenade inside. Soldiers later removed the body of a man from inside on a stretcher, at one point turning toward ************ journalists and ******* several rounds toward them.

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The army later said the ***** man was the gunman from the morning *******, and that an M-16 automatic rifle was found with him. It said the man had formerly served in the ************ Authority’s security forces.

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The West Bank has seen a surge in ********* since ******’ Oct. 7 ******* out of Gaza ignited the war there.

Over 650 Palestinians have been ******* in the West Bank, mainly during ******** military arrest raids. Most appear to have been militants involved in gunbattles with ******** forces, but civilian bystanders and rock-throwing protesters have also been *******.

The last 10 months have also seen an uptick in settler ********* directed at Palestinians and in ************ attacks on Israelis.

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******* captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 ******** war. The Palestinians want all three territories for their future state, but the last serious peace talks collapsed more than 15 years ago.

******* has built well over 100 settlements across the West Bank, some of which resemble suburbs and small towns, Over 500,000 settlers with ******** citizenship live in the settlements, which most of the international community considers ********.

The 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under seemingly open-ended ******** military rule, with the Western-backed ************ Authority exercising limited autonomy in population centers.

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