Violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis have been going on in the West Bank for months. Two Jewish settlers die in an attack in the Israeli-occupied territories. Meanwhile, in Jordan, representatives of both sides are trying to calm the situation.
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a Palestinian shot dead two Israeli settlers in their car. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the two civilians were killed in a "Palestinian terrorist attack" in the north of the West Bank. According to rescue workers, the crime happened at Hawara. There are regular clashes between Palestinians and settlers in the area. The two men killed came from the settlement of Har Bracha, about eight kilometers away.
For months there have been repeated violent clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli army in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel. At least 11 people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed in an Israeli army operation in Nablus on Wednesday, according to Palestinian sources. 80 people were injured. It was the bloodiest Israeli army operation in the West Bank since 2005. Several rockets were then fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli army then launched airstrikes on targets in the Palestinian territories.
In view of the escalation of violence, representatives of Israel and the Palestinians met in Jordan on Sunday for talks. The first meeting of this kind in years took place in the port city of Aqaba on the Red Sea, as reported by Jordanian state television. In addition to representatives of Israel and the Palestinians, regional and international delegations also attended the meeting to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories.
According to sources informed, Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj, Israeli domestic intelligence chief Shin Beth Ronen Bar, US President Joe Biden's Middle East adviser Brett McGurk, and representatives from Jordan and Egypt were scheduled to attend the meeting. A Jordanian government official said the aim of the meeting was to build "trust" between the two sides and calm the situation.
