JENIN, West Bank — Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid that set off clashes in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medical officials and militant groups said.
The Palestinian health ministry said one of its staff, a woman, was also seriously injured.
The deceased 32-year-old was a senior operative with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, according to relatives.
Israel's military said soldiers came under fire, and shot back, during a mission to arrest suspected members of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad faction. A gun and a dozen bombs were also captured in the operation, during which a soldier was lightly wounded, the military statement said.
Israeli forces blew up a house belonging to the dead man's family and another bakery, according to witnesses.
Violence in the West Bank has worsened over the past 15 months with stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.
Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank since a 1967 war. It has also illegally settled the territory, while the Palestinians are split between a Western-backed administration and armed Hamas Islamists.
killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid that set off clashes
in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank,
medical officials and militant groups said.
The Palestinian health ministry said one of its staff, a
woman, was also seriously injured.
The deceased 32-year-old was a senior operative with...