Palestinian health officials say that the Israeli military has raided a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher.
The Israeli army said it searched the hide-out and found improvised explosive devices in a children’s room, along with other military equipment like high-capacity gun magazines. It said its forces arrested two suspects in the town of Aqaba near Tubas, without specifying whether they were the wanted militants in the besieged building.
The Israeli army said it was not specifically aware of Ghanem’s situation but that soldiers reported they killed one Palestinian who they identified as a gunman. The contradictory accounts could not immediately be reconciled. Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh on Friday issued a statement about the deteriorating security situation in the West Bank, condemning Israel’s “incursions into Palestinian cities, villages and towns, and the detention of hundreds of Palestinians, all of which aim to try to drag the territory into a spiral of violence.”
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