Israeli forces carried out attacks against Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, killing at least two people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as fighting continued in Gaza.
Israeli forces launched an attack on the Noor Shams area near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem on Friday.
The Israeli military said that many militants were killed, more were arrested, and at least four soldiers were injured in the crossfire.
The Tulkarm Brigades group, which includes fighters from multiple Palestinian factions, said its fighters were still fighting Israeli forces on Saturday.
At least three drones circled over Nushams, where Israeli military vehicles were gathered and bursts of gunfire were heard.
In Gaza, health officials said, Israel struck the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge, Nuserat in central Gaza, where at least five houses were destroyed, and the Jabaliya district in the north. Hamas media said.
The Israeli military said its troops were conducting raids in central Gaza and engaging in close combat with Palestinian militants.
Palestinian health authorities said a total of 37 Palestinians were killed and 68 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours.
Fighting in Gaza continues despite the withdrawal of most of Israel’s combat forces from the southern region earlier this month.
Following the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, Rafah is the last Gaza area that Israeli ground forces have not entered in the six-month war aimed at wiping out the Islamist Hamas that rules the enclave. Sri Lanka organization.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah has been met with widespread international opposition. The military said Hamas’s last remaining organized brigade is based in Rafah, where the remaining 133 hostages are believed to be held.
The war in Gaza has cast a pall over ongoing violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which has included regular army attacks on militant groups, Jewish settler atrocities in Palestinian villages and Palestinian street attacks on Israelis.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed two deaths since Friday in Noor Shams, an area where refugees from the 1948 war and their descendants live. Palestinian sources said one of the dead was the gunman. According to Palestinian officials, the second man was a 16-year-old male student.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the United States’ veto in the Security Council this week that effectively blocked the United Nations from recognizing a Palestinian state.
In an interview with the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas said the Palestinian Authority would reconsider its bilateral relations with the United States.
The West Bank and Gaza are among the territories Palestinians seek to establish an independent state. U.S.-brokered peace talks collapsed a decade ago.
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