DUBAI, January 15. /TASS/. At least five Palestinians, including three teenagers, were killed by Israeli forces on Sunday during raids in the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

According to the TV channel, the fatalities include two teenagers in Al-Bireh near Ramallah where Israeli troops opened fire on an ambulance, two men in Sair, north of Hebron, and another teenager in the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp north of Jericho. According to Al Jazeera, large-scale raids continue in the town of Qalqilya where Israeli forces used a bulldozer to demolish a residential building.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.