Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in West Bank raid
People stand near a destroyed vehicle in the aftermath of an Israeli raid, in Kafr Dan in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 11 June 2024
Al Jazeera reports on 11 June 2024:
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians during a raid in the village of Kafr Dan near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said, as Israel intensifies its attacks on the territory amid the war on Gaza.
An Israeli special forces unit entered the village on Tuesday and besieged a home before shelling it, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The six slain men were aged 21 to 32, according to the Health Ministry. One of them, Ahmad Smoudi, was the brother of a 12-year-old child who was fatally shot by Israeli forces in Jenin in 2022.
The Jenin battalion of the al-Quds Brigades – the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – had said earlier on Tuesday that it was engaged in “fierce” fighting with Israeli troops in Kafr Dan.
The Israeli military said it carried out a “counterterrorism” operation in the village, killing four armed Palestinians. The army added that it used attack helicopters in the assault and sustained no casualties.
Israeli forces killed four Palestinians west of Ramallah on Monday and three others in Jenin on Friday.
The Israeli military has been regularly conducting deadly raids in the West Bank over the past few years – a trend that escalated with the start of the war on Gaza.