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Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday, September 1, in the northern occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army is continuing a large-scale operation for the fifth consecutive day. “anti-terrorist” launched against Palestinian armed groups, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Since the launch of these Israeli raids, particularly in Jenin and several refugee camps, at least 24 Palestinians have been killed, according to the ministry.
Three Israeli police officers killed in southern West Bank. The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had killed a Palestinian “suspected of having carried out the armed attack” which killed three Israeli police officers in the south of the occupied West Bank in the morning. Already on the night of Friday to Saturday, two attacks carried out by Palestinians had targeted Jewish settlements in the same region.
A call for a general strike has been launched in Israel for Monday. The bodies of six hostages have been found in the Gaza Strip. The announcement caused shock and anger in Israel on Sunday. In the afternoon, the Histadrut, Israel’s main trade union, declared a “general strike”Monday. “We must put an end to this abandonment of hostages. (…) Tomorrow, at 6 a.m. (5 a.m. in Paris), the entire Israeli economy will be on general strike.”Histadrut leader Arnon Bar-David said at a press conference. According to a Histadrut spokesman, the strike is expected to severely disrupt traffic at Tel Aviv International Airport.
According to Israel, the hostages found were recently killed “at point-blank range”. Israel said an autopsy conducted Sunday morning on the bodies of the hostages found in Gaza showed they had been killed “point blank” “between Thursday and Friday morning”the Israeli Health Ministry announced.
The anti-polio campaign has begun in the Gaza Strip. “We have opened the vaccination centres and we are receiving children aged from one day to ten years old, calmly so far”said Dr. Yasser Chaabane, medical director of al-Awda hospital. The campaign aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the besieged Palestinian territory. On Thursday, the WHO announced that Israel had agreed to a series of “humanitarian breaks” to carry it out.
