Two Palestinian men were killed and four others were injured in an Israeli military raid on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, health officials said.
The men were killed after Israeli soldiers shot at a group of civilians standing in front of the Jenin Government Hospital’s emergency department, the hospital director said. Rabih Al-Noursi and Mahmoud Abu-Haija died after sustaining severe gunshot wounds, he said.
CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the shooting.
Seen in Jenin: Videos obtained by CNN show Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers storming Jenin in the early hours of Wednesday. Bulldozers can be seen destroying streets and sewage lines and downing electricity poles.
In a statement on the Jenin incursion, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its “fighters uncovered and destroyed charges planted under routes with the aim of harming the troops,” adding that the military “arrested a wanted man.”
Multiple dead in east Jerusalem and West Bank: A total of six Palestinians were killed in separate incidents, hours apart, around occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank on Wednesday, health officials said.
The number includes a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot and killed by a border police officer in Shuafat refugee camp, who the IDF said “endangered the forces while firing aerial fireworks in their direction.”
Additionally, a 23-year-old and 16-year-old were shot in the town of Al Jib, north of Jerusalem. The IDF said the Palestinians “threw Molotov cocktails over a security barrier fence,” which runs along an Israeli settlement Givat Ze’ev.
The toll also includes a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who Israeli police say was suspected of a stabbing attack at a military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.