Israeli forces kill two Palestinian militants who carried out West Bank bus attack
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At least 10 Palestinians were killed during the continuing Israeli raid in the West Bank. The Israeli military says it has killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the occupied West Bank earlier this month. The two men barricaded themselves in a structure in the West Bank village of Burqin and exchanged fire with Israeli troops before they were killed overnight, the Israeli military said. The army said a soldier was moderately wounded.
![[People inspect the rubble of a house where two Palestinian militants were killed during an Israeli raid]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/09/SEI237029452.jpg)
Mohammed Nazzal and Katiba al-Shalabi were operatives with the Islamic Jihad militant group, the military said. The Hamas militant group released a statement which claimed the two men were members of its armed wing and praised the bus attack. Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad are allies that sometimes carry out attacks together.
![[Israeli soldiers transfer Palestinian men arrested during a military raid on Jenin on Wednesday]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/22/16/2194675059.jpg)
The bus attack on 6 January killed three people and wounded six others. It comesafter at least 10 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank. The raid, in the northern city of Jenin, wounded at least 40 people, Palestinian health officials said, in an operation which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would be “extensive and significant”.
The Israeli military said the aim of such a large-scale operation was to ensure militant groups “are not rearming a few hundred metres from Israeli communities”. The violence comes days after the start of a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, triggered by an attack by Hamas on 7 October that killed around 1,200 people and saw another 250 taken hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive inside Gaza has killed 47,000 Palestinians, according to health ministry officials in the enclave.
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