Two Israelis killed in West Bank shooting amid rising tensions
The Israeli military said it was boosting infantry and artillery forces in a defensive move “to prepare for all possible scenarios.” A Palestinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said that Egyptian security officials were working with Hamas and Israel to de-escalate the situation.
But violence again broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday. The holy site, a tinderbox for Israeli-Palestinian tensions, sits on a hilltop sacred to both Muslims and Jews. In 2021, an escalation also triggered by clashes at the Al-Aqsa compound spilled over into an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
Police did not comment on the earlier beatings, but said security forces entered the holy compound after prayers in response to “masked suspects” who threw rocks toward officers at one of the gates.The Israeli military said that Palestinian militants in Gaza had so far fired 44 rockets from Gaza, only 23 of which crossed into Israeli territory. The others either failed to launch, fell into the Mediterranean Sea, or were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome aerial defense system, the military said.
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