Palestinians: Israeli troops kill 10 in West Bank violence

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Palestinians: Israeli troops kill 10 in West Bank violence By ISABEL DEBRE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israeli forces on Thursday killed nine Palestinians - in- cluding at least seven mil- itants and a 61-year-old woman - in the deadliest single incident in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Palestinian officials said.

Two rockets were fired from Gaza early Friday, further escalating tensions. The Israeli military said both were inter- cepted by its Iron Dome missile defense system.

It was the first such attack from the militant Hamas- ruled territory since The PA already has grave for the dead. limited control over scat- Prime Minister Benjamin PA spokesman Nabil Netanyahu returned to tered enclaves in the West Bank, and almost none Abu Rudeineh said Abbas had decided to cut securi- power at the head of a far-right government over militant strongholds ty coordination in "light like the Jenin camp.

But that has pledged a tough the announcement could of the repeated aggres- line against Palestinian sion against our people, pave the way for Israel to and the undermining militancy.

The raid in the Jenin step up operations it says are needed to prevent of signed agreements," referring to commitments refugee camp and the attacks. from the Oslo peace rocket fire increases the risk of a major flare-up Hamas, the Islamic mil- process in the 1990s.

He in Israeli-Palestinian itant group that controls also said the Palestinians fighting and casts a Gaza, had earlier threat- shadow on U.S. Secretary ened revenge for the raid. planned to file complaints Violent escalations in the with the U.N.

Security Council, International of State Antony Blinken's expected trip to the region West Bank have previous- ly triggered retaliatory Criminal Court and other international bodies. next week. rocket fire from the Gaza Raising the stakes, the Palestinian Authority Strip, which in turn has The PA last cut security coordination with Israel said it would halt the ties brought Israeli airstrikes that its security forces down on the isolated and in 2020, over Netanyahu's drive to annex the impoverished territory. maintain with Israel Israeli forces went occupied West Bank, which would make a in a shared effort to contain Islamic militants. on heightened alert as Palestinians filled the future Palestinian state all but impossible.

But Previous threats have streets across the West six months later, the PA WN been short-lived, in part because of the benefits Bank, chanting in solidar- resumed cooperation, ity with Jenin.

President Mahmoud Abbas declared signaling the financial im- the authority enjoys from portance of the relation- the relationship and also three days of mourning, ship and the Palestinians' due to U.S. and Israeli pressure to maintain it. and in the retugee camp, relief at the election of residents dug a mass President Joe Biden.

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"Palestinians: Israeli troops kill 10 in West Bank violence," Port Charlotte Sun, 27 January 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-085. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-085