Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Israeli forces have carried out raids in the occupied West Bank for a second day running, leading to calls for de-escalation from the United Nations. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday it was beginning a ‘counter-terrorism operation’. On Thursday, it said 12 people had been killed in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and four in Far’a. The Palestinian health ministry also reported 16 people had been killed since Wednesday morning. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to immediately halt its operation, saying it was ‘fuelling an already explosive situation’. He urged Israeli forces to ‘exercise maximum restraint and use lethal force only when it is strictly unavoidable’. The IDF said five were killed after ‘exchanges of fire’ in Tulkarm with militants who had ‘hidden inside a mosque’. It said seven people had died in Jenin.” (08/29/24)