The Israeli army announced Monday evening that it had killed a Palestinian responsible for an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers last year in Nablus, the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces “recently eliminated terrorist Ala Raouf Shetiyya,” the military said in a statement. Terrorists carried out a car-ramming attack at the entrance to Nablus on May 29, 2024, which killed two soldiers from the 90th battalion. »
He said he had opened fire on a building where the Palestinian had “barricaded himself and armed himself”, and had arrested several alleged “collaborators”. Witnesses interviewed by AFP said they saw a lot of blood but no bodies in the house attacked by Israeli troops, east of Nablus.
Violence has exploded in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza sparked by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas’ bloody attack on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel. They did not stop at the ceasefire that has been in effect in Gaza since October 10.
More than a thousand Palestinians, both fighters and civilians, were killed there by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to an AFP tally based on data from the Palestinian Authority. At the same time, according to official Israeli data, at least 43 Israelis, civilians and soldiers, were killed there in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military attacks.
