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West Bank has seen violence simmer for months amid deadlocked
Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, stirring concern among foreign
mediators over a possible spread to Gaza, whose Islamist Hamas
rulers have mostly held their fire since a May 2021 war.
The Israeli army said troops entered Nablus, among flashpoint
northern West Bank areas that have been a focus of its recent
raids, to detain militants. The soldiers exchanged fire with
gunmen during the raid, it said.
The Den of Lions militant group said it had ambushed the troops.
Palestinian medical officials said a 21-year-old man was killed.
Hamas claimed him as a member without saying whether he took
part in the fighting. There were no Israeli casualties.
In Gaza, air strikes hit what the military described as an
underground Hamas rocket foundry, calling this a response to a
cross-border rocket launch on Saturday. That rocket was shot
down by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor without causing damage.
Palestinians disputed Israel's account of the site struck
overnight in Gaza City, saying it was a beachfront banquet hall.
Hamas cadres seized control of Gaza in 2007 and have fought
several wars with Israel since. When smaller Gazan factions
attack Israel, it generally retaliates against Hamas.
Saturday's rocket launch was claimed by the Den of Lions, which
has not previously been known to have a presence in Gaza.
Follow Monday's air strikes, there were several new rocket
launches against Israel, setting off sirens in its border towns.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine group said
it fired those rockets, which caused no damage.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta; Writing by Dan
Williams; Editing by Kim Coghill, Kenneth Maxwell, Toby Chopra
and Shounak Dasgupta)
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