• Palestinian men check a house that was demolished during an Israeli army raid in the Old City of Nablus the previous day. AFP
    Palestinian men check a house that was demolished during an Israeli army raid in the Old City of Nablus the previous day. AFP
  • A bullet-riddled windshield outside a house that was targeted in the raid. AFP
    A bullet-riddled windshield outside a house that was targeted in the raid. AFP
  • Shuttered shops in Gaza city during a general strike called to protest against the Israeli army raid in Nablus the previous day. AFP
    Shuttered shops in Gaza city during a general strike called to protest against the Israeli army raid in Nablus the previous day. AFP
  • A Palestinian house that was demolished in the Israeli army raid
    A Palestinian house that was demolished in the Israeli army raid
  • Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza city as Israel launches air strikes on the Palestinian enclave. AFP
    Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza city as Israel launches air strikes on the Palestinian enclave. AFP
  • A Palestinian protesting after the military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. AP
    A Palestinian protesting after the military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. AP
  • A defiant Palestinian fronts up to an Israeli military vehicle during the raid. AFP
    A defiant Palestinian fronts up to an Israeli military vehicle during the raid. AFP
  • Grief at a funeral of 10 Palestinians, including gunmen, in Nablus. Reuters
    Grief at a funeral of 10 Palestinians, including gunmen, in Nablus. Reuters
  • Palestinians carry a man wounded in the Israeli operation. EPA
    Palestinians carry a man wounded in the Israeli operation. EPA
  • An Israeli officer throws teargas at Palestinians in Nablus. AP
    An Israeli officer throws teargas at Palestinians in Nablus. AP
  • Medics carry a wounded Palestinian to receive treatment. AP
    Medics carry a wounded Palestinian to receive treatment. AP
  • The city is known as a militant stronghold and the Israeli army frequently operates there. AP
    The city is known as a militant stronghold and the Israeli army frequently operates there. AP
  • Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in Nablus. Reuters
    Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in Nablus. Reuters
  • A Palestinian confronts Israeli military vehicles. AP
    A Palestinian confronts Israeli military vehicles. AP
  • Relatives outside a hospital mourn the death of a Palestinian killed in the Israeli raid. AFP
    Relatives outside a hospital mourn the death of a Palestinian killed in the Israeli raid. AFP
  • Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during the raid in Nablus. Reuters
    Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during the raid in Nablus. Reuters
  • Bystanders help a Palestinian woman wounded in the raid. AFP
    Bystanders help a Palestinian woman wounded in the raid. AFP
  • Teargas fills a street in Nablus during the Israeli raid. AFP
    Teargas fills a street in Nablus during the Israeli raid. AFP
  • Palestinians confront Israeli forces. AFP
    Palestinians confront Israeli forces. AFP
  • Israeli security forces during the raid. Reuters
    Israeli security forces during the raid. Reuters
  • Smoke above a Nablus neighbourhood as Palestinians clash with Israeli forces. AP
    Smoke above a Nablus neighbourhood as Palestinians clash with Israeli forces. AP

Nablus residents describe ‘massacre’ after 11 dead in four-hour Israeli raid


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Shops were closed in Nablus, Gaza, occupied East Jerusalem and much of the West Bank on Thursday, the day after one of the deadliest Israeli raids in years sparked a four-hour shoot-out on a usually bustling shopping street that left 11 dead and more than 100 wounded.

In Nablus' Old City, shops were riddled with bullets, parked cars were crushed and blood stained the cement ruins. Furniture from the destroyed home was scattered among mounds of debris.

"What happened yesterday in Nablus was a real massacre, like I've never seen before," city resident Allam Ennab, 68, told AFP.

His brother, Anan, had been in the market when the raid began on Wednesday. He died of teargas inhalation.

“We saw and heard everything. We ran for our lives and took cover inside a building,” Mahmoud, a resident of the Old City who witnessed the scenes, told The National.

“Today there is a general strike in the city — not a shop is open. Everyone is waiting to see what comes next.”

The episode might have been terrifying, but Mahmoud says they have become used to such violence.

“You should have been here for the 2002 invasion [intifada] — we’ve since grown accustomed.”

Talaat Ziada, the head of the intensive care unit at Nablus's Rafidia hospital, said his youngest patient was an 11-year-old boy shot in the stomach and leg.

"It was a war zone in the Old City and it was also a war zone here," he said. "The corridors and stairs were covered in blood and people were scrambling to check on their relatives."

The shoot-out began in daylight on Wednesday afternoon when Israeli soldiers surrounded a building in central Nablus in a bid to detain three suspects in a previous shooting attack and the killing of an Israeli soldier last year.

The gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers who shot back, drawing in other gunmen. Dozens of young men nearby threw bottles, rocks and Molotov cocktails at soldiers.

By the time the Israeli soldiers retreated four hours later, the three suspects were dead along with eight others and over 80 were being treated in hospitals for gunshot wounds. The Red Crescent said they treated others for smoke inhalation and other wounds bringing the total number of injuries to more than 100. Two Israeli soldiers were "lightly hurt" by shrapnel from other troops' gunfire, the military said.

Two of the victims were customers at a nearby pharmacy, local TV station Al Rahma reported. One of them, identified as Mohammad Albousi, 25, was planning for his wedding. Two of the dead were men over 70.

In a video shared online, a medic pronounced a man dead only to notice the lifeless patient was his father. Elsewhere, an amateur video showed two men, apparently unarmed, being shot as they ran in the street. Military spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht said the armed forces were looking into it.

A witness who lives a street away from the scene of the raid described seeing Israeli military vehicles blocking Palestinian ambulances trying to reach the wounded.

Wednesday's death toll was the highest since the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, ended in 2005.

"This is a war against humans and rocks and everything in Nablus," said Nasr Abu Jaish, co-ordinator for the group that represents the major Palestinian political factions in the city.

"They [Israelis] used air power, machine guns, Apache helicopters to surround the homes in the Sheikh Msallam neighbourhood. There's huge destruction to shop owners and car owners."

The raid was a "massacre" that "crossed all red lines", Tayseer Nasrallah, a member of the Fatah ruling party's Revolutionary Council told The National.

Palestinians outside the West Bank joined the general strike in solidarity.

Abdel-Latif Abdu, a vegetable seller in Gaza, kept his shop closed in support of the residents of Nablus.

"They [Israel] can’t divide us. We are all one people and can’t be divided,” he told Reuters.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says this year has so far been the bloodiest in 22 years, since the Second Intifada or uprising between 2000 and 2005. They say 62 Palestinians, including gunmen and civilians, have been killed in 2023 so far. Ten Israelis and a Ukrainian tourist died in Palestinian attacks in the same period, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry.

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