JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot lifeless three Palestinians and wounded eight others early Friday throughout a navy operation within the occupied West Financial institution, the Palestinian Well being Ministry stated.
The ministry didn’t say how the casualties occurred.
Palestinian media quoted witnesses as saying Israeli troops opened hearth at a automotive within the northern West Financial institution city of Jenin and killed three passengers.
Heavy exchanges of gunfire have been heard in movies circulated on social media earlier than the incident involving the automotive. Afterward, footage on social media confirmed a bullet-riddled car with bloodstains and residents inspecting it.
There was no speedy remark from the Israeli navy, which carries out frequent in a single day raids in Palestinian-controlled components of the West Financial institution to arrested suspected and wished Palestinian militants. Many of the arrest raids have been in Jenin, the hometown of a number of Palestinian assailants who took half in a latest string of assaults that killed at the least 19 Israelis.
A whole lot of indignant residents gathered outdoors a Jenin hospital, chanting slogans of “God is Nice” and requires revenge, earlier than carrying the three our bodies on stretchers and strolling by the city in a spontaneous protest.