The Kansas City Star · Kansas City, Missouri · 20 June 2023
CP-2023-033
Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank’s Jenin
By Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, Associated Press

Transcribed from the clipping
“JENIN, West Bank — Israeli troops and Palestinian militants fought for hours in the occupied West Bank on Monday in some of the fiercest fighting in years… The Health Ministry identified the dead as Khaled Asasa, 21, Qassam Abu Sariya, 29, Qais Jabarin, 21, Ahmed Daraghmeh, 19, and 15-year-old Ahmed Saqr… Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official, said the raid was ‘a dangerous escalation’…”
Context added by this archive
Third headline. Nobody is killed in it at all. The five names are still in the sixth paragraph, where the headline cannot reach them.
Cite this clipping
"Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank’s Jenin," The Kansas City Star, 20 June 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-033. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-033
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