Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have said that they had ordered the army to launch a “wide-scale military operation” in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.
In a joint statement on Friday, Netanyahu and Katz also said the army had been instructed to demolish the home of the Palestinian accused of carrying out a shooting attack against illegal settlers near the Palestinian town of Tell in the northern West Bank.
A large Israeli military force raided the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
The measures followed a security incident near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement, close to Nablus, that killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others, according to an Israeli army statement.
Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Palestinians had seized the weapon of a settlement security officer and opened fire on settlers.
Earlier on Friday, four Palestinians were killed and four others injured, including three critically, during an attack by Israeli forces and illegal settlers on Tell, southwest of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
