2 Hamas members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel said it killed two senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Movement (Hamas) in an air strike that targeted their car in Jenin in the West Bank. the West that was owned on Saturday, and they said that they were involved in the killing. from Israel.

In a joint statement, the Internal Security Service and the Israeli army said the two Hamas members are Ahmed Abu Arra and Raafat Dawasi, and are from the Northwest Bank around Jenin.

In a statement, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said they are mourning two of their fighters who were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Jenin.

The statement said, “The two martyrs, Raafat Dawwasi and Ahmed Abu Arra, died as a result of Israeli bombing that targeted their vehicle in Jenin. “

The Israeli statement said the two Hamas members were involved in planning a shooting attack last week in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, where an Israeli named Yonatan Deutsch was killed.

Israeli authorities said Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a main road in the West Bank on August 11, killing one person and wounding another.

Later in the day, the Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that its fighters in the West Bank “killed a soldier from zero range near the settlement of Mahula and returned to their bases until safe.”

Hamas said the operation came in response to an Israeli attack targeting a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, which Civil Defense said resulted in at least 90 deaths.

Violence has been on the rise in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began last October, amid more raids by Israeli forces, violence by Jewish settlers, and attacks which Palestinians did in the streets.

Israeli settlers killed at least one Palestinian on Thursday in an attack on a village near the West Bank town of Qalqilya, which was condemned by the United States, Britain and France.

The violence in the West Bank comes at a time when a new round of talks is expected to begin aimed at ending the war in Gaza which has been going on for 10 months this week.

The Gaza war and the growing violence in the West Bank threaten to widen the scope of the conflict regionally to include Iran and its proxies in the region, such as the Hezbollah group in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.