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David__77

(23,866 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 03:40 PM Apr 2024

More than 12 Palestinians killed as violence flares in West Bank

NUR SHAMS, West Bank, April 20 (Reuters) - A Palestinian ambulance driver was killed on his way to evacuate the wounded during a raid by violent Jewish settlers and at least 12 Palestinians died during a separate incident in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said on Saturday.

The incidents came as violence flared across the area and fighting continued in Gaza.

The Palestinian health ministry said the 50-year-old driver was killed by Israeli gunfire near the village of Al-Sawiya, south of the city of Nablus, as he was making his way to transport people injured during the attack on the village.

It was not immediately clear whether he was shot by settlers. There was no immediate comment from the military.



https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/two-die-ongoing-israeli-raid-west-bank-palestinian-health-ministry-says-2024-04-20/

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More than 12 Palestinians killed as violence flares in West Bank (Original Post) David__77 Apr 2024 OP
Better headline: IDF raid in WB leads to firefight with terrorist group, 12 militants killed. Mosby Apr 2024 #1
Now it says 14 killed including ambulance driver. David__77 Apr 2024 #2
Now it says Beastly Boy Apr 2024 #3
14 militants from The Tulkarm Brigades were killed in a firefight with Israeli soldiers. lapucelle Apr 2024 #4
Your title is not what the article says. David__77 Apr 2024 #5
... lapucelle Apr 2024 #6
That, it says. Quite different. David__77 Apr 2024 #7
Sorry. Distinctions without differences don't work on me. N/T lapucelle Apr 2024 #8
ToI: IDF kills 10 Palestinian gunmen, arrests 8 in two-day West Bank raid Mosby Apr 2024 #9
TFW you try to claim genocide Mountainguy Apr 2024 #10

Mosby

(17,452 posts)
1. Better headline: IDF raid in WB leads to firefight with terrorist group, 12 militants killed.
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 05:05 PM
Apr 2024

Reuters prefers more ambiguity. Wonder why.

Eta the article has been highly edited:


NUR SHAMS, West Bank, April 20 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said.

Israeli forces began an extended raid in the early hours of Friday in the Nur Shams area, near the flashpoint Palestinian city of Tulkarm and were still exchanging fire with armed fighters well into Saturday.

Israeli military vehicles massed and bursts of gunfire were heard, while at least three drones were seen hovering above Nur Shams, an area housing refugees and their descendants from the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.

The Tulkarm Brigades, which groups forces from numerous Palestinian factions, said its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces on Saturday.

The West Bank, a kidney shaped area about 100 km (60 miles) long and 50 km wide that has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since it was seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.


I can't quite figure out what paragraph 4 means, maybe this was written by IA.

Beastly Boy

(11,136 posts)
3. Now it says
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 06:21 PM
Apr 2024

"It was not immediately clear whether he was shot by settlers. There was no immediate comment from the military."

It also says "The Tulkarm Brigades, which groups forces from numerous Palestinian factions, said its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces on Saturday."

Most importantly, it says "The Palestinian Health Authority said"

lapucelle

(19,532 posts)
4. 14 militants from The Tulkarm Brigades were killed in a firefight with Israeli soldiers.
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 09:37 PM
Apr 2024

The Tulkarm Brigades, which groups forces from numerous Palestinian factions, said its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces on Saturday.


https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/two-die-ongoing-israeli-raid-west-bank-palestinian-health-ministry-says-2024-04-20/


lapucelle

(19,532 posts)
6. ...
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 09:55 PM
Apr 2024
The Tulkarm Brigades, which groups forces from numerous Palestinian factions, said its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces on Saturday.

Mosby

(17,452 posts)
9. ToI: IDF kills 10 Palestinian gunmen, arrests 8 in two-day West Bank raid
Sat Apr 20, 2024, 10:46 PM
Apr 2024

The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday continued a counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp, the military said on Saturday afternoon.

The raid, near Tulkarem, has been ongoing for more than 40 hours.

Amid the operation, the IDF said troops killed at least 10 gunmen and detained another eight wanted Palestinians.

The troops also discovered and destroyed a bomb-making lab; seized firearms, including assault rifles; and used bulldozers to rip up roads where bombs were suspected to have been planted, the military said.

Eight soldiers and a Border Police officer were wounded as of Saturday afternoon amid clashes with Palestinian gunmen and rioters. Their injuries were listed as light and moderate conditions.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-kills-10-palestinian-gunmen-arrests-8-in-two-day-west-bank-raid/

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