This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On 3 April 2023, the Israeli army conducted a military operation in Nablus, resulting in the death of two Palestinians and injuries to several others.
The operation was in response to allegations that two armed fighters were involved in the shooting of two Israeli settlers in Huwara in February.
[1][2] The raid was part of a larger trend of increased violence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the preceding year.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh denounced the deaths, stating that they were part of a "systematic policy embraced" by the Israeli occupation.
During the raid, Israeli forces fired tear gas, injuring dozens of people in the al-Makhfiyeh neighborhood.