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A6 WORLD NEWS
Friday 1 april 2022
Israel raids West Bank, 2 Palestinians killed in gunbattle

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and coordinates with Is-
forces raided a refugee rael on security matters,
camp in the occupied appears to have had little
West Bank on Thursday, set- control over Jenin in recent
ting off a gunbattle in which years. Israeli forces operat-
two Palestinians were killed ing in and around the city
and 15 were wounded, as and refugee camp often
Israel targeted what it said come under fire.
were militant networks after The Islamic Jihad militant
a series of deadly attacks. group announced a "gen-
In a separate incident, eral mobilization" of its fight-
a Palestinian stabbed a ers after Thursday's raid.
28-year-old Israeli man on a In Tuesday's attack, a
bus in the West Bank before 27-year-old Palestinian
being killed by a bystander, from the West Bank village
the military said. The Magen of Yabad, near Jenin, me-
David Adom emergency thodically gunned down
service said the stabbing victims, killing five. On
victim was treated and tak- Sunday night, two Islamic
en to a hospital. State group sympathizers
Videos circulated online shot and killed two police
showing smoke rising from Palestinian gunmen shoot in the air during the funerals for Sanad Abu Atiyeh, 17 and Yazid al- officers in the central city
the center of the Jenin Saadi, 23, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, Jenin, Thursday, March 31, 2022. of Hadera. Last week, a
refugee camp as gun- Associated Press combined car-ramming
fire echoed in the back- and stabbing attack in the
ground. Others appeared Yazid al-Saadi were killed of 31 suspects in recent the people of Israel." southern city of Beersheba
to show Israeli soldiers and on Thursday. It said 30-year- West Bank raids aimed at The Jenin refugee camp — also by an IS-inspired at-
Palestinian gunmen mov- old Nidal Jaafara was shot preventing more attacks. was the scene of one of tacker — killed four. The
ing through the narrow and killed near the West Prime Minister Naftali Ben- the deadliest battles of the two attacks claimed by IS
streets. Bank town of Bethlehem, nett's office later Thursday second Palestinian intifada, were carried out by Arab
The raid came two days apparently referring to the announced it was spend- or uprising. In April 2002, Is- citizens of Israel.
after a Palestinian from a stabbing incident. ing about $56 million in raeli forces fought Palestin- President Joe Biden spoke
village near Jenin shot and The Israeli military said emergency funding for ian militants in the camp for with Israeli Prime Minister
killed five people in central troops came under fire more police officers and nearly three weeks. Twenty- Naftali Bennett on Wednes-
Israel, part of a wave of at- after entering Jenin to ar- equipment. three Israeli soldiers and at day to express his con-
tacks in recent days that rest three suspects linked "A strong police equals a least 52 Palestinians, includ- dolences, saying the U.S.
have left a total of 11 peo- to Tuesday's attack. It said strong Israel," Bennett said ing civilians, were killed, ac- "stands firmly and resolutely
ple dead. one soldier was wounded in a statement. "We are op- cording to the U.N. with Israel in the face of
The Palestinian Health Min- and evacuated to a hospi- erating all means and on The Palestinian Authority, this terrorist threat and all
istry said 17-year-old Sanad tal for treatment. The army all fronts to restore security which administers parts of threats," according to the
Abu Atiyeh and 23-year-old said it has arrested a total and a feeling of safety to the occupied West Bank White House.q

Search finds 49,000 pieces of plane in China Eastern crash

region, killing all 132 people fic controllers got no reply tation Safety Board and ad-
on board. The impact cre- from the pilots after it start- visors from Boeing and the
ated a 20-meter- (65-foot-) ed falling and the pieces of Federal Aviation Adminis-
deep crater, set off a fire in debris are so small. tration have been granted
the surrounding forest and More than 22,000 cubic visas to travel to China to
smashed the plane into meters (800,000 cubic feet) take part in the investiga-
small parts scattered over of soil were excavated and tion, under longstanding
a wide area, some of them 49,117 pieces of the plane international agreements.
buried underground. found, said Zhang Zhiwen, Engine manufacturer CFM
Zhu Tao, the director of an official with the Guangxi will support the investiga-
aviation safety for the Civil government. The search tion but not send anyone
Aviation Administration of was made more difficult by to China, the NTSB said,
China, said at a news con- rain and muddy conditions correcting an earlier an-
ference in the nearby city in the remote and steep lo- nouncement that compa-
of Wuzhou that important cation. ny representatives would
parts including the horizon- The two "black boxes" — the be part of the traveling
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a tal stabilizer, engine and re- flight data recorder and team. The China Eastern
piece of plane wreckage from the China Eastern flight crash site
in Tengxian County, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autono- mains of the right wing tip the cockpit voice recorder flight, with 123 passengers
mous Region, on March 25, 2022. had been recovered after — have been found and and nine crew members,
Associated Press nearly 10 days of search- sent to Beijing for examina- was headed from the
ing, according to the offi- tion and analysis. Zhu said a southwestern city of Kun-
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese more than 49,000 pieces of cial Xinhua News Agency. preliminary investigation re- ming, the capital of Yun-
officials said Thursday that debris had been found. The investigation into the port would be completed nan province, to Guang-
the search for wreckage in Flight MU5735 plunged cause of the crash faces within 30 days of the March zhou, a major city and
last week's crash of a Chi- from 29,000 feet (8,800 me- several challenges includ- 21 crash. export manufacturing hub
na Eastern Boeing 737-800 ters) into a mountainside in ing that the plane plunged A team of U.S. investigators near Hong Kong in south-
is basically done and that southern China's Guangxi without warning, air traf- from the National Transpor- eastern China.q