RAMALLAH, Palestine: Israeli forces have conducted attacks in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least six Palestinians and injuring 35, said Health Ministry officials.
Earlier the Palestinian Authority said the decision by US President Donald Trump to lift sanctions on Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank would incite violence against Palestinians.
“Lifting sanctions on extremist settlers encourages them to commit more crimes against our people”, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Qatar confident in a deal for Gaza ceasefire
Qatar is confident that the deal it helped mediate for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas addressed all the major issues in the war, the foreign ministry spokesman said.
“We are confident in the deal when it comes to the language of the deal when it comes to the fact that we hashed out all the major issues on the table”, Majed al-Ansari told a regular press conference cautioning: “Any breach from either side or a political decision could lead the deal to collapse.”
Meanwhile, Israeli army arrested up at least 20 more Palestinians in fresh military raids in the occupied West Bank.
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Two women were among the detainees in the raids that targeted Hebron, Qalqilya, Nablus, and Ramallah, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
The truce brokered by Qatari, US and Egyptian mediators is meant to enable a surge of sorely needed humanitarian aid into Gaza, as a total of 33 Israeli hostages are to be released in exchange for around 1,900 Palestinians in Israeli custody.
Gaza’s health ministry said that since October 7, 2023, at least 46,913 Palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed in Gaza in the Israeli bombardment campaign in response to Hamas’s attack on Israel.
