[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] General strike was announced in Jenin and the surrounding towns on Saturday after the martyrdom of three Paleostinians by Israeli fire.
Paleostinian media reported that Ezz al-Din Hamamreh and Amjad Khalilia were martyred in a clash with Israeli occupation forces who raided the town of Jabaa, south of Jenin.
Paleostine Today reported fierce festivities in Jabaa as Paleostinian resistance fighters repelled the Israeli raid in the town early on Saturday.
Israeli media also reported that IOF killed two Paleostinians in the town of Jabaa.
Meanwhile on Saturday, Yazan al-Jabari succumbed to wounds sustained during an Israeli raid in Jenin a day earlier.
Shortly afterwards, Mosques in Jenin and the surrounding towns were mourning the three young men.
General strike was then announced in the city and the nearby towns, with shops and schools were seen closed in mourning of the deaders.
Nablus and several areas across the occupied West Bank have been the scene of near-daily raids by Israeli occupation forces. So far, 12 Paleostinians have been martyred in the West Bank since the start of 2023, including 7 only in Jenin, according to Paleostine Today.
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2 Islamic Jihad gunmen killed in attempted West Bank shooting attack on IDF troops
[IsraelTimes] Local wing of terror group tries to target Israeli forces near Jaba’, south of Jenin; another Paleostinian maimed in clash 2 weeks ago dies
Two members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
were killed after they shot up Israeli forces in the northern West Bank on Saturday morning, the military and the terror group said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops operating near the village of Jaba’, south of Jenin, came under fire from a passing vehicle. The IDF said troops returned fire at the car and identified several suspects being hit.
In a statement, the PIJ said members of a local wing based in Jaba’ had shot up the Israeli forces in the area.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said two men were killed in the incident, Izz a-Din Basem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliya, 23.
They were both identified as members of the PIJ in a later statement by the terror group.
Paleostinian media outlets published footage of the car apparently involved in the attempted attack. The windows could be seen shattered and the seats were soaked in blood.
Separately early Saturday, a Paleostinian man died two weeks after he was critically maimed by gunfire during festivities as troops worked to demolish the homes of two button men who killed a military officer last year.
Yazan al-Jaabari, 19, died from wounds he sustained on January 2, the Ibn Sina hospital in the southern town of Jenin said in a statement. The PA Health Ministry also confirmed his death.
Two Paleostinian button men were also killed during that firefight.
The IDF said at the time that during the operation in Kafr Dan, north of Jenin, troops came under "massive gunfire" by Paleostinian button men.
"Troops responded with riot dispersal means and fired at a number of gunnies who fired at them," the IDF said, adding that "suspects were hit."
The village is the hometown of two Paleostinian button men who carried out a deadly attack along the West Bank security barrier on September 14, killing Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit.
Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly attacks, as a matter of policy. The efficacy of the measure has been hotly debated even within the Israeli security establishment, while human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
activist muppets denounce the practice as unjust collective punishment.
A military investigation into the death of Falah pointed to "errors" made by troops, who detected the suspects near a military post and moved in to investigate but failed to realize they were armed and were caught unawares by their initial volley of fire, which hit Falah.
The incidents came during an Israeli anti-terror offensive, mostly focused on the northern West Bank, to deal with a series of Paleostinian attacks that killed 31 people in 2022.
The IDF’s operation has netted more than 2,500 arrests in near-nightly raids. It also left more than 170 Paleostinians dead in 2022, and another 12 since the beginning of the year, many of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, though some were uninvolved civilians. 
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