ISLAMABAD/JERUSALEM: At least three Palestinians were martyred on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, after Israeli security forces raided a village in the northern occupied West Bank.
The raid into the village of Jaba
According to Arab News, the Israeli military did not immediately comment on the raid into the village of Jaba, south of the flashpoint city of Jenin. The Health Ministry of Palestinian did not identify the dead but said they were shot by Israeli fire during an Israeli military operation.
For the previous few months, the village of Jaba has been house to a fledgling militant group of disillusioned Palestinians who have taken up guns against Israel’s open-ended occupation, now in its fifty-six years.
The group is part of a more significant trend of emerging armed groups across the West Bank that have defied the rising unpopular Palestinian Authority and claim no relations to any specific political party.
The previous two months have been marked by escalating violence across the West Bank.
