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Israeli military said its forces came under fire from suspects
who threw explosives at soldiers in the confrontations near the
flashpoint city of Jenin and that the soldiers responded with
live fire.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed one fatality. Dozens
of mourners marched at the militant's funeral, some of them
masked gunmen who fired rifles in the air.
"We will meet our enemy only with bullets and resistance,"
Islamic Jihad said.
In the Palestinian city Hebron, Israeli security forces arrested
two Palestinians who they said had carried out a drive-by
shooting that killed an Israeli woman on Monday while a search
for another gunman who killed two Israelis in the village Huwara
further north on Saturday was still going on.
The military said it arrested 32 Palestinian suspects overnight
in the West Bank, where violence has worsened over the past 15
months with frequent Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks
and assaults on villages by Jewish settlers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security
cabinet for consultations on Tuesday, as settler leaders
protested outside his office demanding a tougher crackdown
against Palestinian militants.
Netanyahu's far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a member
of the security cabinet, said in a statement that Israel was
facing a "wave of terrorism that must be broken with a lot of
work and brave decisions".
Prospects of reviving U.S.-brokered peace talks that aimed to
establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East
Jerusalem, remain dim almost a decade after their collapse.
Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 war and has since built
dozens of settlements there that are considered illegal by most
countries, a view Israel disputes, with its military in control
of more than half the territory.
The Palestinians have limited self-rule in the West Bank and
remain split between a Western-backed administration and armed
Hamas Islamists who reject coexistence with Israel, while many
in Israel's government reject Palestinian statehood.
(Reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza
and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Ed
Osmond)
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