![]() Israeli security forces patrol in Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. The Palestinians say the operations are aimed at strengthening Israel’s 55-year military occupation of territories they want for an independent state. Israel says the arrest raids are meant to dismantle militant networks. Local youths who took to the streets in response to the invasion of their neighborhoods have also been killed. But several civilians have also been killed during Israel’s monthslong operation, including a veteran journalist and a lawyer who apparently drove unwittingly into a battle zone. The Israeli military says the vast majority of those killed were militants or stone-throwers who endangered the soldiers. Israeli fire has killed more than 100 Palestinians during that time, making it the deadliest year in the occupied territory since 2015. The army said it had traced some of the perpetrators of those attacks back to Jenin. Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids across the West Bank since a spate of attacks against Israelis in the spring killed 19 people. The Israeli army said it was “aware of an allegation regarding injuries to a minor who participated in the violent riots and hurled stones at the security forces.” It said the circumstances surrounding the event are being examined. ![]() A manhunt follows a Saturday shooting attack at a military checkpoint in east Jerusalem where a Palestinian gunman fled from the scene after he opened fire, killing a female Israeli soldier and wounding three others, one of them seriously. Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces after the army entered Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. On Monday, the ministry mistakenly reported the boy was wounded during the weekend, but the Israeli military said the incident happened in September and the ministry has since corrected its initial reporting. 28 during an army raid in Jenin, a refugee camp and stronghold of armed Palestinians. Mahmoud Samoudi was shot in the abdomen on Sept. ![]() ![]() RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - A 12-year-old Palestinian boy died Monday after being shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers during a September army raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. ![]()
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