Israeli military kills Palestinian teacher in raid
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Tensions have soared in the West Bank.
RAMALLAH (AP) - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian schoolteacher and another during a military raid in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, Palestinian officials and media said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the dead as Jawad Bawaqna, 57, and Adham Jabarin, 28. They were shot in the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said Bawaqna was a secondary school teacher and a father of six. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade — an armed militia affiliated with Fatah, the secular political party that controls the Palestinian Authority — claimed Jabarin as a fighter. The agency said Bawaqna was shot and killed as he was trying to offer Jabarin medical aid, after he had been shot outside his home.
Tensions have soared in the West Bank, where the Israeli military has been conducting near-nightly arrest.
