Conflict between Israel and Palestine spreads to West Bank with clashes, deaths and injuries

Six Palestinians died on Friday in clashes with the IDF in West Bank occupied, as part of strong protests to reject the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, where the death toll has already risen to at least 120 since the current military escalation began.

The deaths were confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs the West Bank and which also clarified that the emergency in all hospitals and they were called upon to prepare to treat the wounded in the clashes, which have now passed 75.

The deaths of the demonstrators occurred in different parts of the West Bank territory, mainly in the northern towns, and all as a result of gunfire by Israeli soldiers.

On the other hand, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that Israeli forces they shot an ambulance and a doctor.

This Friday, the protests took place in the cities of Hebron, Nablus, Salfit, Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Tulkarem, among others.

An IDF spokesperson told Efe that the protests are “violent riots”, in which he said that some “5,000 rioters who threw stones and Molotov cocktails” to Israeli troops who are trying to disperse them.

These incidents take place hours after the death in the morning of another Palestinian in the West Bank by Israeli troops, who shot him dead after “speed up your vehicle” against a soldier, then “try to stab him”.

On the other hand, the protests are taking place simultaneously with protests in different parts of Jerusalem, including at the Damascus Gate, and in the Arab towns of Israel, after several days of clashes between Arabs and Jews in mixed towns. of the country and in parallel with the violence in Gaza.

Escalation of war between Palestinian militias and the IDF has so far ceased at least 119 dead in Gaza and a balance of nine in Israel, seven from the impact of projectiles launched from Gaza and two after falling when they ran towards the bomb shelters.

The West Bank is an area bounded on the east by the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, and on the west, north and south by the so-called Green Line, according to the demarcation established during the Arab-Israeli armistice of 1949..

Jordan prevents crossing the border

Jordanian security forces prevented dozens of protesters on Friday Cross the border separating Jordan from the West Bank in a march launched to support the Palestinians in their clashes with Israel, official Jordanian media reported.

“The security forces were forced to use proportional force against a limited number of people after entering citizen farms in violation of private property,” the Jordanian public security directorate said in a statement reproduced by the Jordanian news agency Petra.

The source asked all participants who are in these places near the border to “maintain security and order and cooperate with the security and civil defense units to maintain their safety and protection”, without giving More details.

In the Jordanian capital, thousands of demonstrators also gathered in front of the Great Hudseini Mosque in central Amman, after the weekly Friday prayers and coinciding with the feast of Aíd al Fitr, which ends the holy month of Ramadan, calling on the government to cancel the 1994 peace treaty with Israel and the closure of the Israeli embassy in the city.

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