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A deadly Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank of Palestine has provoked grief and anger in Gaza.
Rockets have been fired into Israel, and hundreds of Palestinians have taken part in vigils and rallies to condemn what they describe as a “massacre”, reports Al Jazeera.
After nine Palestinians were killed in Israel’s raid on Thursday in Jenin, armed groups in Gaza declared a state of high alert, calling the incursion “a new Israeli crime” against the Palestinian people.
Following the announcement, two rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, an attack claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They were shot down early on Friday by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system, and Israel carried out air attacks on locations in Gaza that it said are used by armed groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Islamic Jihad spokesperson Khader Habib said in statement that the Palestinian people had been “subjected to unprecedented killings and attacks by the new Israeli government in all parts of the West Bank amid the complete absence of international intervention”.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told the media that what had happened in Jenin was “a war crime”.
He said, “The occupation’s crimes will not go unpunished nor will it succeed in breaking the will of our Palestinian people. ”
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