Joint Operation – Palestinian Resistance Claims Responsibility for West Bank Shooting

At slightest 3 Israelis were killed successful a shooting cognition successful Kedumim. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Palestinian absorption factions agreed successful a bold operation, arsenic Israeli escalation successful Gaza and the West Bank fuels further conflict.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the subject helping of Hamas, claimed work connected Wednesday for a associated cognition alongside the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades that killed 3 Israelis and wounded others successful the Qalqilya Governorate, successful the bluish occupied West Bank.  

In a statement, Al-Qassam Brigades announced their engagement successful the shooting successful Al-Funduq village, wherever fighters from the 3 absorption groups killed 3 Israeli Jewish settlers and safely withdrew. 

The connection emphasized the increasing unity among Palestinian absorption factions, calling the cognition “a wide connection of solidarity and coordination successful effect to the enemy’s ongoing massacres successful Gaza and the West Bank.”  

The Al-Quds Brigades correspond the Islamic Jihad Movement, portion the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are affiliated with Fatah, highlighting cross-factional absorption against Israeli occupation.  

Al-Qassam said the cognition was carried retired successful coordination with the al-Quds Brigades and the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, highlighting tract unity and cohesion.#Qalqilya #WestBank https://t.co/Iqsxefkb5I

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Escalating Tensions successful the West Bank  

Meanwhile, the Israeli concern forces person intensified their assaults successful the West Bank. On Thursday, raids were reported successful aggregate areas, including Tulkarm, wherever Israeli troops stormed the metropolis and surrounded its camp, sparking clashes with section absorption fighters.  

The Tulkarm Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades reported injuries among Israeli forces aft detonating explosive devices targeting concern vehicles and ft patrols. In different enactment of escalation, the Israeli service demolished the location of a Palestinian captive successful Tulkarm, accusing him of engagement successful an equipped onslaught successful May.  

In Tamoun, adjacent Tubas, 3 Palestinians—including 2 children—were killed successful a drone onslaught connected Wednesday. Official Palestinian sources corroborate that Israeli operations successful the West Bank person killed 847 Palestinians and injured 6,700 since October 7.  

Settler unit has surged successful parallel with the Israeli army’s operations. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich openly called for genocide and taste cleansing successful Palestinian cities specified arsenic Nablus and Jenin, echoing the devastation seen successful Jabaliya and different parts of Gaza.  

Breaking: Israeli assemblage settlers, nether the extortion of the Israeli concern forces, tempest the municipality of Al-Funduq and onslaught Palestinian civilians, eastbound of Qalqilya successful the bluish occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/qMxUrIGlNt

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The concern successful Gaza remains dire, with implicit 155,000 Palestinians killed oregon wounded since October 7, according to Palestinian wellness officials. 

More than 11,000 stay missing amid the rubble of destroyed neighborhoods, arsenic famine and a deficiency of aesculapian supplies assertion the lives of children and aged people. The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding successful Gaza is being described arsenic 1 of the worst successful modern history.

(PC, AJA)