Palestinian health officials say that the Israeli military has raided a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher.
, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher, Palestinian health officials and the man's family said.of Israeli army actions in the occupied territory that have resulted in a high Palestinian death toll.
But the gunmen refused to surrender themselves and managed to flee the wrecked house, the local branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group claimed. “Our fighters provided cover with heavy fire to break the siege on the house and allow our brothers to withdraw safely from the area," the group said in a congratulatory message to its members.
Ghannam worked as an eighth grade English teacher at a school in the area, Islam added, declining to give his own last name for fear of reprisals. He said Ghannam avoided politics as much as he could and had no connection to the local armed group. Ghannam was buried a few hours later. During the funeral, scores of Palestinians streamed through the streets chanting against Israel as they held his body aloft, wrapped in a Palestinian national flag rather than that of a Palestinian political or militant faction.deteriorating security situation
The near-daily military raids have fueled tensions in the region and have ushered in some of the worst fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank since the last Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.
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