A new wave of attacks killed at least nine more Israelis in the fall. The Israeli military says most of the Palestinian dead were militants. However, stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others who did not participate in the confrontations were killed.<\/p>\n

Israel claims the raids aim to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. Palestinians see it as a further consolidation of Israel’s 55-year occupation of the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Israel captured the West Bank, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Middle East War and the Palestinians seek those lands for their future state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestinian health officials said that Israeli forces killed two Palestinians during a confrontation that erupted at dawn Monday when Israeli forces entered a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. The two men were killed in the village of Kafr Dan, near the northern city of Jenin. The Israeli military said it entered Kafr Dan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[331,1532,2811,2667,2810,2759,269],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bank","tag-israel","tag-kills","tag-palestinians","tag-story","tag-west","tag-year"],"yoast_head":"\n