QABATIYA (West Bank), June 7: Four Palestinians and a Chinese labourer were killed on Tuesday in the deadliest day of violence to strike the occupied territories since militant groups began observing a fragile truce in January. Three Palestinians, including a district leader of Islamic Jihad, were gunned down during Israeli operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And a Chinese and a Palestinian worker died in a subsequent Palestinian revenge attack on a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip.

Mraweh Khaled Kamil, a chief of Islamic Jihad’s armed wing in the Jenin area, was killed during an Israeli arrest operation in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya as he hunkered down with other wanted militants.

A 23-year-old civilian was also killed and nine other Palestinians and an Israeli soldier injured, sources said.—AFP