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Monday, June 19, 2023
PA blasts Israel’s ‘massacre’ in Jenin, says it’s intended ‘to detonate the area’
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh calls the Israeli operation and heavy clashes in Jenin a “massacre” and an attempt “to detonate the area and drag it into the violence box.”
He says Washington and the world must take action to “stop this Israeli madness.”
“International silence is what encourages the occupation government to continue its crimes and wage an all-out war against our Palestinian people, their land and their holy places,” he says.
Israel says gunmen attacked soldiers during an arrest operation in the early morning, leading to massive exchanges of fire.
Seven soldiers were wounded after an army vehicle was hit by an explosive device. Four Palestinians were killed in the clashes and over 60 were hurt. An Israeli helicopter gunship carried out rare strikes at the scene, the first in the West Bank in some two decades.
The Times of Israel Community.