Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinians, Wound Over 10 in West Bank Raid

A military vehicle maneuvers during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
A military vehicle maneuvers during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
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Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinians, Wound Over 10 in West Bank Raid

A military vehicle maneuvers during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
A military vehicle maneuvers during an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 13 others in a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry and medics said.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it was treating at least six people who were shot, four who sustained shrapnel wounds and one person who was run over by a military jeep. It said its teams were fired at while recovering some of the dead.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions on the raid.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the end of a security assessment on the West Bank on Thursday, said that while Israel was facing "complicated international pressure" it was determined to change the security reality in the area.
"Israel is engaged in a difficult battle on many fronts. We are fighting in the south, we are fighting in the north, we are also fighting in Judea and Samaria," he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
A video shared on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, seemed to show a helicopter firing at Jenin's refugee camp, a densely populated urban area.
Residents of both the camp and the city reported hearing gunshots.
Jenin camp has been a focal point of raids by the Israeli military, which says it carries out such operations to arrest suspects and prevent attacks on Israelis.



US Did Not Have Advance Warning of Israeli Strike in Beirut, Pentagon Says

 People inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 27, 2024. (Reuters)
People inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 27, 2024. (Reuters)
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US Did Not Have Advance Warning of Israeli Strike in Beirut, Pentagon Says

 People inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 27, 2024. (Reuters)
People inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 27, 2024. (Reuters)

The United States had no advance warning of an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart as the operation was ongoing, a Pentagon spokesperson said on Friday.

"The United States was not involved in this operation and we had no advanced warning," spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters.

Singh declined to say what Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Austin about the operation and whether it targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Pentagon also declined to speculate on whether the Hezbollah leader was still alive.

Austin and Gallant spoke as the Pentagon chief flew over the Atlantic after a visit to London.

Asked what Austin may have communicated to Gallant given the Israeli strike's potential impact on US efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, Singh declined to offer specifics, but she said the defense secretary is always frank in his conversations with his Israeli counterpart.

"Look at just the engagements that the secretary and Minister Gallant have had over the last two weeks, speaking regularly. I think if there was any type of fracture in trust, you wouldn't see those type of levels of calls and engagements occurring frequently," Singh said when asked if the lack of advance notification by Israel indicated a lack of trust.

The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday in an attack that shook the Lebanese capital and sent thick clouds of smoke over the city.

The news outlet Axios cited an Israeli source as saying Nasrallah was the target of the strike and that the Israeli military was checking if he was hit.

A source close to Hezbollah told Reuters that Nasrallah was alive, while Iran's Tasnim news agency also reported he was safe. A senior Iranian security official told Reuters that Tehran was checking his status.