The Israeli military said it launched air raids on “a weapons manufacturing site and a rocket launcher belonging to Hamas”, the Palestinian faction that governs the besieged Gaza Strip. The army said the raids were in response to incendiary balloons launched from Gaza. The bombings are the fourth since a May ceasefire.
Israel’s army killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank and also shot and wounded two others. The Palestinian news agency said they were shot “while fending off an attack” by Israeli settlers on the village. Qusra is a village encircled by illegal Jewish settlements. In April, United Nations human rights experts said Israeli settler violence against Palestinian civilians was on the rise amid a climate of widespread impunity. An Israeli military spokesperson said soldiers had been trying to disperse confrontations between Israeli settlers and Palestinians and saw a man throw an explosive device at them from a rooftop and “responded with fire against the suspect in order to eliminate the danger”
Meanwhile, the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority (PA) was again challenged when hundreds demonstrated against it in Ramallah. The PA was established as part of the peace process in the 1990s and governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It has grown increasingly authoritarian and unpopular. Abbas cancelled the first elections in 15 years in April when it looked like his fractured Fatah party would lose.
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