- Title: Israeli army blows up Palestinian assailants homes in West Bank
- Date: 2nd January 2023
- Summary: NEAR JENIN, WEST BANK (JANUARY 2, 2023) (REUTERS) CLOUD OF WHITE SMOKE FROM DUST AFTER ISRAELI ARMY BLEW UP HOME OF PALESTINIAN ASSAILANTS VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS STANDING AMID RUBBLE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) OWNER OF HOUSE THAT WAS DEMOLISHED BY ISRAELI ARMY, HANI ABED, SAYING: "They (Israeli army) made two families homeless, they are vengeful and it is a collective punishment. If they could, they would demolish the entire area."
- Embargoed: 16th January 2023 10:30
- Keywords: Israel Palestinians West Bank demolition
- Location: NEAR JENIN, WEST BANK
- City: NEAR JENIN, WEST BANK
- Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
- Reuters ID: LVA002991802012023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Israeli forces killed a Hamas militant and another Palestinian during clashes near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Monday (January 2) that were set off when the army came to demolish the homes of two slain gunmen, Palestinian sources said.
The fatalities in Kafr-Dan village were the first for Palestinians since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retook office last week at the head of a hard-right coalition.
The Israeli army confirmed carrying out the raid to raze the homes of two Palestinians who killed one of its commanders in the West Bank last year before they were shot dead.
Troops shot at Palestinians in Kafr-Dan who attacked them with gunfire, rocks, and firebombs, the army said in a statement. There were no Israeli casualties in the incident.
Hamas, an Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip and has a following in the West Bank, claimed one of the dead Palestinians, who was 17 years old, as its member.
In Kafr-Dan, Hani Abed, the father of one of the gunmen killed in the Sept. 14 clash, described the Israeli demolitions as "collective punishment."
Last year saw the worst levels of violence in the West Bank in more than a decade, much of it concentrated around Nablus and the nearby city of Jenin, with at least 150 Palestinians and more than 20 Israelis killed.
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