Body ‘every hour’ in deadliest Israeli raid into West Bank since 2005

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Around four tyre fires belching black smoke, Israeli soldiers carried out an incursion in Jenin on Thursday in the deadliest army raid the occupied West Bank has seen since 2005.

The Palestinian health ministry said 14 were killed in the raid, with the violence continuing until Thursday evening, making it the deadliest single incursion in the West Bank since 2005, according to United Nations records.

“This is every day,” said a 39-year-old Palestinian computer engineer, who asked to remain anonymous.

“This is our life,” he said before fresh gunfire sent panic through a crowd of onlookers who ran down the street.

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