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Ten Months of Surging Israel-Palestinian Violence

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The nine Palestinians killed in an Israeli raid Thursday in the West Bank town of Jenin are the latest victims of the worst cycle of violence in the territory in nearly 20 years. online news

At least 200 Palestinians and 26 Israelis were killed across Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2022, most of them in the West Bank, according to an AFP tally from official sources.

AFP looks back at some of the deadliest incidents since a spate of attacks in Israel in spring 2022. Israel has responded with a series of often deadly “counter-terrorism” raids.

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March 22, 2022: Four people are killed when a convicted Islamic State group sympathiser goes on a stabbing and car-ramming rampage in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. The assailant, a Bedouin man, is shot dead by armed bystanders.

March 29, 2022: Five people, including an Arab-Israeli police officer, are killed after a West Bank Palestinian man opens fire at passers-by in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. The shooter is killed by Israeli forces.

April 7, 2022: A Palestinian gunman from Jenin kills three people and wounds more than a dozen others in a popular Tel Aviv nightlife district. He is shot dead after an all-night manhunt.

May 5, 2022: Three people are killed and four wounded in the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad when two assailants leap from a car swinging axes at passers-by. Two Palestinian suspects are arrested after a two-day manhunt.

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BETHLEHEM, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES – AUGUST 17: Palestinian women pass through the Bethlehem checkpoint on the last Friday of Ramadan, West Bank, August 17, 2012. Courtesy of Shutterstock Author: Ryan Rodrick Beiler

April 13, 2022: A Palestinian rights lawyer and two teenagers are shot dead, in three separate incidents during Israeli operations in the West Bank. A day later three other Palestinians, including a father of six, are also killed by Israeli forces.

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May 11, 2022: Veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh is killed after being shot in the head while covering clashes between the Israeli army and militants in Jenin. Israel later admits that one of its soldiers likely shot her after mistaking her for a militant.

October 25, 2022: Major Israeli raids targeting nascent militant group “the Lions’ Den” kill five Palestinians in the town of Nablus and another in Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah. Israel accuses the group of being behind recent attacks.

November 29, 2022: Israeli forces shoot dead three Palestinians in the West Bank whom they accuse of being “rioters” and then kill a suspected car-ramming attacker who wounds an Israeli soldier near Jerusalem.

January 26, 2023: Israeli forces kill nine Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp in what they say was a “counter-terrorism operation” to apprehend members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.

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August 2022: Israel carries out three days of aerial and artillery bombardments of Gaza aimed at Islamic Jihad, which it accuses of planning an attack on Israel.

    At least 49 Palestinians are killed, including 17 children. Islamic Jihad launches more than a thousand rockets in retaliation, according to the Israeli army.

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