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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

Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank’s Jenin — The Kansas City Star, 20 June 2023
The Kansas City Star · Kansas City, Missouri · 20 June 2023
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“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’…”

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Third headline. Nobody is killed in it at all. The five names are still in the sixth paragraph, where the headline cannot reach them.

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"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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