The Israeli military says its forces have killed seven Palestinian fighters “from the air” and arrested 50 “wanted individuals” during ground operations in the occupied West Bank over the past week, Al Jazeera reports.
The announcement came a day after Israel claimed to have killed three Hamas operatives in the Aqqaba area of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, where a car was bombed by an Israeli fighter jet.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, confirmed the deaths of only two members in that attack. It promised to continue resisting Israeli forces “until victory and liberation”.
The third person injured in the Aqqaba attack was later arrested by the Israeli forces in a hospital in Nablus.