Three days after being the victim of an attack in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli-British died of her injuries, Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem said on Monday (April 10). “We announce with sadness the death of Lucy [Leah] Dee, victim of the fatal attack in the [Jordan] Valley […] Unfortunately, despite intense and relentless efforts, due to her critical injury, the team has had to declare his death today. »
This mother had lost her two daughters, aged 16 and 20, in the same attack. They had been the target of Palestinian fire at their vehicle while they were in the northeastern West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Shortly before his death, a Palestinian teenager was also killed during an Israeli military operation, again in the occupied West Bank. It was the Palestinian Minister of Health who announced the death of 15-year-old Mohamed Fayez Balhan, “killed by live ammunition from the occupation” after being shot in the head and chest. The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas denounced a “summary execution by Israeli occupying forces in a raid in the occupied West Bank”.
In a brief statement, the Israeli army said that “security forces were carrying out an operation in Aqabat Jaber”, a Palestinian refugee camp located near the Jericho area. “During an operation to arrest a suspect… Violent clashes erupted at different points… The soldiers fired live ammunition,” said the army, which said it arrested the suspect.
Deadly attacks, rocket attacks from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, followed by Israeli reprisals: the region has been in the grip of a wave of violence since the brutal irruption on Wednesday of Israeli forces in the Al-Aqsa mosque of Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam. Israel says law enforcement was ‘forced to act to restore order’ in the face of ‘extremists’ barricaded in the mosque with rocks and firework flares which were used against the police during their assault.
The next day, around 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, injuring one person and causing material damage. The Israeli army retaliated by carrying out strikes on Gaza and southern Lebanon.
And Friday evening, Israel announced the mobilization of reserve police units and military reinforcements, after a car bombing in Tel Aviv that claimed the life of an Italian tourist, and the death of the two Israeli-British sisters. . “If any of the terrorists thinks that during the holiday season he can evade the security forces, he is wrong. Anyone who acts against us, we will settle his account,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday.