Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in a raid on Tuesday in a refugee camp near the town of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The news was announced by Palestinian and Israeli officials.
Khawla Abdo, a 53-year-old woman, was killed as a result of shelling by Israeli forces, while Fathi Saeed Odeh Salem, an 18-year-old man, was shot in the abdomen and chest, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The Israeli military said earlier it killed a Palestinian in a "counter-terrorism" operation in Tulkarm, while its forces arrested 18 other wanted individuals and confiscated dozens of weapons.
Hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis have been killed in the West Bank since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel that sparked the Gaza war and a wider conflict on several fronts. The official Palestinian news agency WEAFA said Israeli forces prevented ambulance crews from reaching Salem by opening fire on him. Bulldozers also destroyed infrastructure in the Tulkarm camp, including houses, shops, part of the walls of the Al-Salam mosque, which they barricaded, and part of the camp's water network, he said.
So, in Syria, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus and other cities across the country to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria. "We demand the rights of Christians," they chanted as they marched through the Syrian capital to the seat of the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood. The protests come just over two weeks after the Islamist-led HTS armed coalition overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad, who presented himself as a protector of minorities in the Sunni-majority country. (A2 Televizion)
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