Four Palestinians were killed on Sunday in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and the Israeli army said. Three were killed in the village of Bidu, about ten kilometers northwest of Jerusalem, and another in Borquin, near Jenin, in the northern West Bank, according to these sources. The Israeli army claimed that the clashes took place during “an operation to dismantle a terrorist cell in the United States. [mouvement islamiste] Hamas ”.
An IDF spokesman Amnon Sheffler said the Palestinians killed were members of Hamas. “An operation to arrest Hamas terrorists which began on Saturday evening is underway,” Amnon Sheffler said. A terrorist was apprehended Saturday evening near Jenin without clashes then Sunday morning, exchanges of fire broke out when the army came to arrest another terrorist in Borquin. In these clashes, a terrorist was killed and another armed man was arrested. Amnon Sheffler mentioned another arrest in Kabatia, in the same area.
In addition this Sunday, “three terrorists were killed in exchanges of fire in Bidu”, still declared the spokesperson. A photographer saw large bloodstains in the nearby village of Beit Annan, where Hamas said the clashes took place, according to Palestinian media. Hamas confirmed the death of one of its members in the village of Bidu named Ahmad Zahran, while Islamic Jihad claimed that the Palestinian killed in Borquin, Ossama Soboh, was one of its members.