The army placed terrorists on the roof of the Balata camp in a fierce battle that killed Muhammad Medhat Amin Amer.
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded nine others in the Balata refugee camp, as Israeli forces attack the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday that 18-year-old Muhammad Medhat Amin Amer was shot and killed in an overnight raid. campwhich is outside the city of Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Nine people are in a “critical condition” after being wounded in the attack, which began on Friday night and sparked violent clashes, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The Palestinian newspaper Wafa reported that Israeli forces entered the camp from the Awarta checkpoint, sending “snipers on the roofs of the surrounding buildings”.
In a statement on Saturday, the Israeli army said the soldiers had fired on “terrorists”, who “threw explosives, molotov cocktails and stones, and fired weapons”.
Violence in the West Bank has been on the rise since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip following the terrorist attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Since then, at least 815 Palestinians have been killed in the area by Israeli forces or residents, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah.
At the same time, a Palestinian attack in the West Bank killed at least 25 Israelis, according to Israeli statistics.
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported that a Palestinian child was wounded in the eye by shrapnel from an Israeli army attack on buildings in the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, on Friday.
Israeli forces also carried out attacks in three towns in the occupied West Bank region of Hebron.
Local sources told Wafa that Israeli soldiers set up a checkpoint in the city of Idhna, west of Hebron, where they stopped cars and checked passports.
In ash-Shuyukh, north of Hebron, Israeli patrols removed Palestinian flags from the town's streets. In another operation, soldiers cordoned off areas of the nearby Arroub refugee camp.
The Palestinian Authority is attacking
Since December, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been conducting terrorist attacks in the area Jenin refugee campwhich is located in the north of the province, saying that they want to deal with Palestinian weapons.
There have been clashes for weeks, in which civilians and members of the Palestinian Authority security forces have been killed.
The family of a Palestinian father and son who were killed on Friday in the camp blamed the PA for their deaths.
However, the PA security forces issued a statement denying the presence of their security forces in the area. Instead, they blamed the people who were killed in the Jenin camp.
The Battalion genes The army released a statement accusing the PA of killing 16 Palestinian civilians since October 2023.
A member of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, identified as Major Rashid Shaqo, also died in the camp on Friday.
A PA official described the killing as “accidental”, according to Reuters.