A young Palestinian was killed and several people were detained in an Israeli military raid in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya today, according to local media and witnesses.
Witnesses said Israeli forces besieged a house in the Al-Naqqar neighbourhood in the city and launched shoulder-fired grenades at the building.
The official Palestine TV said that a Palestinian youth holed up inside the house was killed.
The official news agency Wafa identified the victim as Bara’ Miskawi, who was freed from Israeli jails last year after a 20-month jail sentence. It said Israeli occupation forces seized the body of the slain Palestinian, while two other people were injured.
Witnesses said two people were also detained in the Israeli raid, while several others were taken into custody in Nablus and Ramallah.
Tuesday’s raid came as the Israeli occupation army has continued a deadly military offensive in the northern West Bank, which it launched in January, killing over 70 Palestinians and displacing tens of thousands.
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