Sharjah24 - AFP: Three Palestinians died Thursday as Israeli forces launched fresh raids into the West Bank flashpoint district of Jenin, a week after a gunman from the area went on a deadly shooting spree in Tel Aviv.
Israel has poured additional forces into the West Bank and is reinforcing its wall and fence barrier with the occupied territory after four deadly attacks in the Jewish state that have claimed 14 lives, most of them civilians, in the past three weeks.
A total of 21 Palestinians have been killed in the latest wave of violence since March 22, including assailants who targeted Israelis.
In a clash near Jenin on Thursday morning "two youths died of injuries sustained in an Israeli attack," the Palestinian health ministry said.
Hours later, the ministry announced the death of a 45-year-old Palestinian father of six, who had been "critically wounded by Israeli bullets" the previous day in Beita, south of Nablus. Local sources named the man as Fawaz Hamayel.
The Israeli army said the clashes on Thursday, its sixth straight day of "counterterrorism activities", saw it come under attack from a crowd in Kafr Dan, a village northwest of Jenin.
"Dozens of Palestinians violently attacked the soldiers, shot at the forces and hurled IEDs (improvised explosive devices) at them, endangering their safety," the army said.
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