Israeli forces killed three people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and blew up the home of a Palestinian prisoner during attacks on Tuesday.
One man was shot dead near the edge of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Wafa news agency. The two people killed in the West Bank were suspected of carrying out two attacks that injured three Israelis in the occupied territory.
Israel's military did not immediately comment, but it has previously claimed that killings were in response to militants firing at its forces.
Hamas and Israel have accused each other of breaching the ceasefire that took effect on October 10 after two years of war.
The Gaza Health Ministry said more than 350 Palestinians have been killed across the territory since the ceasefire.
Wafa reported that the Israeli army also bombed areas of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and demolished houses “in a continued violation of the ceasefire agreement”.
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Israel soldiers prepare explosive devices to demolish the house of Palestinian prisoner Abdul Karim Sanoubar in Zawata, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. All Photos: EPA -
Israeli troops detonate the explosives -
Soldiers forced families to leave 13 nearby homes before the demolition -
The Israeli army bombed areas of the Gaza Strip and demolished houses 'in a continued violation of the ceasefire agreement', Palestinian news agency Wafa reported -
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 -
Israel says its offensive is aimed at rooting out militants -
But Palestinians say scores of stone throwers, protesters and uninvolved civilians have been killed -
Israeli soldiers leaving after the demolition in Zawata
The killings in the West Bank are the latest burst of violence in the territory, where fighting has spiked in recent weeks. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified one of those killed as a 17-year-old Hebron resident.
The Israeli military said troops shot and killed a suspect who stabbed two soldiers on Tuesday as they were confronting him near Ateret, an Israeli settlement in the central West Bank. It said the incident was under review.
Israel's ambulance service said it was also treating two men aged about 20 at the scene.
In the south, near Hebron, the Israeli army said it shot and killed a Palestinian who had carried out a car-ramming attack that wounded a female soldier.
In a statement late on Monday, Hamas celebrated the ramming attack, saying that it came “in the context of the legitimate response of our people” to Israel’s raids in the West Bank. The militant group did not claim the attack.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said: “Overnight, the terrorist was identified in the Hebron area by the security forces while inside the vehicle he used to carry out the attack.”
The man attempted to flee as soldiers tried to arrest him, “while endangering the forces, who responded with live fire” and killed him, the army statement added.
Israeli troops forced families to leave 13 homes before the house of Palestinian prisoner Abdul Karim Sanoubar, in the Zawata area, west of Nablus, was demolished early on Tuesday, Wafa reported.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Last week, the army launched what it described as a “broad counter-terrorism” raid in the north of the territory, the latest expansion of its months-long assault on the region.
The Israeli army has stepped up its activities in the West Bank since Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack triggered the war in Gaza.
Israel says the offensive is aimed at rooting out militants. But Palestinians say scores of stone throwers, protesters and uninvolved civilians have been killed.
In recent weeks, the West Bank has experienced a surge in settler violence against Palestinian civilians. Meanwhile, Palestinian assailants killed an Israeli man in a stabbing and car ramming attack last month.
