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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Palestinian Authority calls for general strike across West Bank, East Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
A general strike is declared across the West Bank and East Jerusalem today to denounce the Israeli “aggression” in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The strike, called for by the Fatah party, which controls the Palestinian Authority, affects businesses, banks and universities, and is accompanied by calls to “escalate the confrontation with the occupation.”
Amid the ongoing offensive in the Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reports that so far at least 8,610 have been killed, and over 23,000 injured since the start of the war.
However, the figures issued by the terror group cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas terrorists killed in Gaza and Israel, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
An additional 122 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’s deadly assault on southern Israel on October 7, at the hands of the IDF or in some cases by settlers.
Israeli forces have also detained more than 1,000 Palestinians, some 700 of whom are affiliated with the Hamas terror group, in raids across the West Bank.
The Times of Israel Community.