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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie

West Bank violence burns as Israeli election nears

Armed men attend the funeral of Palestinian Mahmoud Al-Sous, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes in a raid, in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

In the alleyways of the Old City of Nablus, posters commemorating young men killed in clashes with Israeli forces are everywhere, an unavoidable reminder of the escalating violence in the occupied West Bank over recent months.

After years of relative calm, more than 100 Palestinians from the West Bank have been killed this year, most since late March during a crackdown following a string of fatal street attacks by Palestinians in Israel which killed 19 people.

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