BEIRUT, November 29. /TASS/. Two Palestinian children were killed by stray bullets fired by Israeli troops in Jenin in the West Bank, Palestine’s Health Ministry said.

"Adam Samer Al-Ghoul, 8, and Basil Suleiman Abu Al-Wafa, 15, were killed by bullets of the occupiers (Israeli military - TASS) in Jenin," the ministry wrote on its Facebook page (the social media owned by US corporation Meta that is outlawed as an extremist organization in Russia).

On the night of November 29, Qatari television channel Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli army was conducting a large-scale military operation in Jenin, deploying more than 50 combat vehicles in the city’s downtown area. They were reported to have sealed the entrances to three main hospitals in Jenin. There were shootouts with Palestinians in some neighborhoods. At least eight people suffered wounds. In addition to this, raids were carried out in refugee camps in Jericho, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Tensions flared up in the Middle East after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israeli territory on October 7, killing residents of border settlements and taking hostages. Hamas views its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ steps against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria.

On November 22, Hamas announced an agreement with Israel, which was brokered by Egypt and Qatar, on a four-day humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, which came into effect on November 24 at 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT). Under the deal, women and children under the age of 19 held hostage in the enclave are to be released in return for the release of women and teenagers (under the age of 19) from Israeli prisons.

On November 27, Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the truce for two more days on the previous terms. They are as follows: three Palestinian captives will be released daily in return for each freed Israeli hostage.