JERUSALEM: Hours after two Palestinian teenagers were killed in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, officials said on Sunday that Israeli forces were searching for the perpetrator of the attack that killed a soldier at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem. According to police, a shootout at a checkpoint in the Palestinian refugee camp Shuafat in East Jerusalem, which Israel has taken over, "resulted in serious injuries", killing one soldier.

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Police reported that a third person, whose nationality was not disclosed, was "seriously injured" in the incident, and emergency services organization Magen David Edom (MADA) reported gunshot wounds. All were in their 20s.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its medical workers were being prevented from entering the refugee camp, while police cordoned off the area near the checkpoint and deployed dozens of officers at the entry and exit of East Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid called the shooting a "serious" attack.
"This evening, my condolences are with the injured and their loved ones. We are patient even in this difficult evening. Terror will not overpower us," he said in a statement.

Two Palestinian teenagers were killed earlier on Saturday in an Israeli military operation in Jenin, a volatile city in the north of the occupied West Bank.

During the arrests by Israeli forces in Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported "two civilians killed by captured (Israeli) bullets". Eleven more people have received injuries.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has identified the dead as 16-year-old Ahmed Dargameh and 18-year-old Mahmoud. Kishor was praised by Islamic Jihad as "its martyr".

According to the Israeli military, soldiers entered Jenin on Saturday to detain a 25-year-old Palestinian whom they claimed was linked to the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad and suspected of firing at nearby Israeli soldiers.

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"During the activity, dozens of Palestinians threw explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers and opened fire on them," according to an army statement. Soldiers also opened fire on "armed suspects".

Saturday's incident is the most recent in routine and often deadly raids by Israeli forces against Palestinian militants, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Palestinian fighters and civilians.

In a statement published by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudineh said that "Israel's action" would be "an explosion with disastrous consequences for all and talk of no return."

The Palestinian president called on Washington to "put serious pressure on Israel to stop its all-out war against our Palestinian people."

Additionally, the agency said that during the Jenin raid, Israeli forces opened fire directly on journalists.
On Wednesday, two journalists were injured while covering a military operation, seen by an AFP reporter, near the West Bank city of Nablus, during which a Palestinian was killed.

Journalist Shirin Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American, was shot and killed in March while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin.
Violence erupted in Jenin on Friday, a day after Israeli forces shot and killed two more Palestinian teenagers: 17-year-old Mahdi Laddawe near Ramallah and 14 in the northern, according to the health ministry.

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Tor Weinsland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said: "I am concerned by the deteriorating security situation, including an escalation in armed conflict between Palestinian and Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including the eastern United Nations. " Jerusalem."

Since the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank, and about 475,000 Israelis now live in settlements that most of the international community considers illegal.

They coexist with about 2.8 million Palestinians, either partly or wholly ruled by Israel, in various parts of the Midwest Bank.