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The Israeli army said it had carried out a vast operation with police and intelligence officers targeting a site "used by the main operatives of the 'Lion's Den'", describing it as a "headquarters and a workshop for making weapons.”
Israeli troops shot and wounded seven Palestinians on the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medical officials said, the day before a mass rally called to mark the first anniversary of weekly protests in which around 200 Palestinians have been killed.
The little West Bank town of Bethlehem has cancelled all but religious observances this Christmas. The tall evergreen tree near the Church of the Nativity where tradition holds Jesus was born has not been strung with bright fairy lights. Manger Square wears no gay seasonal decorations.
Residents told the media that Israeli forces raided the camp and carried out widespread arrests, where they clashed with gunmen and some youths who threw stones.
"I died several times that day," he said in an interview at his home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "They tortured me in a way that I felt they are killing me. And when they shot me, I felt it's my end. I closed my eyes and prayed."
Top Palestinian official Hussein Al Sheikh described the raid as a "massacre" and called for "international protection for our people."
The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday said the situation in the West Bank had become "alarming and urgent."
Five of the deaths occurred in the city of Jenin, which the Israeli military said it raided to detain a Palestinian who is suspected of involvement in a lethal West Bank ambush in August.
CCTV footage circulating online and on television news shows a boy being struck by a bullet and falling in the street, sending other children fleeing.
Three Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed by Israeli gunfire in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the Palestinian health ministry.