Seven Palestinians were injured in an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Tuesday, hours after two Israeli men were injured by gunfire near a Jewish site in annexed east Jerusalem.
The shooting came amid a period of deadly attacks and military raids across the West Bank, along with killings in Israel.
The Palestinian ministry reported that six people with “minor injuries from live fire” had gone to Jenin governmental hospital, while another person shot had been admitted to a nearby hospital following the raid in the northern West Bank city.
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A statement from the Israeli military confirmed that an operation was under way in the Jenin refugee camp, without giving further details.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said a suspected Palestinian gunman had wounded two Israeli men in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem after firing at their vehicle.
“Police officers are at the scene conducting searches for the suspect who fled,” the police said in a statement.
Israeli security forces closed off streets in the neighborhood, where an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist saw officers entering a Palestinian home, with a drone and helicopter, as well as police dogs, aiding the search.
Officers enforcing the shutdown prevented vehicles and people from moving in the center of the neighborhood, as heavily armed forces combed the area.
Police announced they had found the perpetrator’s gun near the scene of the attack, which took place near the tomb of Simeon the Just — Shimon Hatzadik in Hebrew — a site frequented by religious Jews.
The weapon was identified as a Carlo makeshift submachine gun, which Palestinians manufacture in the West Bank.
Hadassah hospital said they received a 48-year-old gunshot victim lightly wounded, and the Shaare Zedek medical center said it was treating a man in his 50s in moderate condition.
The search was punctuated by the 10am two-minute siren marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring more than 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, speaking at a city hall ceremony, said one of the Holocaust’s main lessons was “to never be helpless in the face of those seeking to harm us.”
Later in the morning, most of the security forces had left Sheikh Jarrah, with roads reopened and traffic flowing as normal.
Sheikh Jarrah was the focal point of protests against the eviction of Palestinian residents by Israeli settler organizations in the buildup to and during the May 2021 war between Israel and Gaza militants.
It is also the site of a weekly Israeli demonstration against the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The attack took place a day after a Palestinian woman stabbed and moderately wounded an Israeli man at the Gush Etzion junction in the southern West Bank.
The woman was shot by security forces and taken to hospital in moderate condition.
The conflict has this year claimed the lives of at least 96 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian, according to an AFP count based on Israeli and Palestinian official sources.
Those figures include, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, including minors, and on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, including minors, and three members of the Arab minority.
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