One Palestinian was killed and several others were arrested following Israeli security raids in the West Bank on Tuesday. The ongoing cycle of violence comes as the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) feared a repeat of the second Palestinian intifada (uprising) in 2000, which saw some of the deadliest violence in the conflict.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) said 17-year-old Hamza Amjad al-Ashqar was killed in Nablus during an Israeli raid. The PA also reported three people were detained in Nablus, along with 19 in Jenin, two in Qalqiya and three in the Qalandiya refugee camp, according to the PA’s official Wafa news agency.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early Tuesday morning that they arrested several people and confiscated weapons throughout the West Bank. The IDF said they were attacked with explosives while searching for a wanted individual in Qalandiya.
In Nablus, the IDF said Molotov cocktails were thrown at them and that they shot a gunmen who fired at them, according to several tweets from the IDF’s Twitter account.
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