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Israeli forces killed two Palestinian intelligence officers and a civilian in an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Another officer was severely injured when members of the Israeli Border Guard attempted to detain wanted Palestinians outside the headquarters of the PA Military Intelligence Unit headquarters in Jenin , Wafa reported.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the dangerous Israeli escalation , in a statement released by his spokesman.
Wafa identified the
officers killed as Lt Adham Yasser Tawfiq Aliwi, 23, Capt Tayseer Mahmoud Othman Issa, 33, and the injured officer as Mohammad Samer Al Bazour, 23, all from the National Security Forces’ Military Intelligence Unit. The civilian was Jamil Mahmoud Al Amouri, a former Israeli prisoner from the Jenin refugee camp
Clashes between Jewish and Arab Israelis in towns throughout the country were worse than the public believed, bordering on anarchy, said Border Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Amir Cohen.
Israel Now Faces Its Worst Nightmare
Any future Arab-Israeli conflict will look a lot like this one: involving not only those Palestinians living under occupation, but those Israeli Arabs living in Israel itself.
Americans can be forgiven for believing that the recently concluded Israeli-Palestinian conflict was just more of the same. After all, we’d seen this before, with rockets fired from one side while bombs were being dropped from the other. We even knew how the drama would end: while American policymakers mouthed their support for Israel’s right to defend itself, the same off-stage actors (primarily Qatar and Egypt), intervened to mediate a ceasefire as they had done in the past. And so the conflict ended, the dead are now being mourned and Israelis and Palestinians have returned to their normal lives. Until the next time.