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WORLD NEWS Friday 24 February 2023
Gaza rockets, Israeli strikes follow deadly West Bank raid

By TIA GOLDENBERG Various Palestinian militant
Associated Press groups claimed six of the
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Pal- dead as members. There
estinian militants in Gaza was no immediate word
launched rockets at south- on whether the others be-
ern Israel and Israeli aircraft longed to armed groups.
struck targets in the coastal Officials also said a 66-year-
enclave early Thursday af- old man died from tear gas
ter a gunbattle triggered inhalation.
by an Israeli raid in the oc- In response to the raid, a
cupied West Bank killed 10 strike was called across the
Palestinians. West Bank, and schools, uni-
The bloodshed extends versities and shops all shut
one of the deadliest pe- down in protest. Schools
riods in years in the West and universities in Gaza
Bank, where dozens of Pal- and most shops in east Je-
estinians have been killed rusalem were also closed.
by Israeli fire since the start Israel captured the West
of the year. Palestinian at- Bank, along with the Gaza
tacks on Israelis in 2023 Strip and east Jerusalem, in
have killed 11 people. the 1967 Mideast war. The
The Israeli military said Pales- Palestinians seek those ter-
tinian militants fired six rock- ritories for their hoped-for
ets and two anti-aircraft Anti-aircraft missiles are launched from the Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike, Thursday, Feb. 23, independent state.
missiles from the Gaza Strip 2023. The Israeli military said it
toward the country’s south Associated Press entered Nablus, the West
early Thursday. Air defens- The violence comes in a year in the West Bank ary on the Jenin refugee Bank’s commercial cen-
es intercepted five of the the first weeks of Israel’s and east Jerusalem, rais- camp in the West Bank that ter and a city known as a
rockets and one landed in new far-right government, ing the likelihood of further killed 10 Palestinians, a Pal- militant stronghold, to arrest
an open field, according to which has promised to take bloodshed. “We have a estinian shot and killed sev- three militants suspected in
the military. The missiles did a tough line against Pal- clear policy: to strike terror en people outside a syna- previous shooting attacks.
not hit their targets. The at- estinians, and as security powerfully and to deepen gogue in east Jerusalem. The main suspect was
tacks were not immediate- forces step up arrest raids our roots in our land,” Israeli On Thursday, police said wanted in the killing of an
ly claimed by Palestinian of wanted militants in the Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- security guards at the en- Israeli soldier last fall.
militant groups. West Bank. Israel says the tanyahu told a meeting of trance to a West Bank Wednesday’s four-hour op-
Israeli aircraft then struck raids begun in the wake of his Cabinet. “We will settle settlement shot and lightly eration left a broad swath
several targets in northern a series of deadly Palestin- accounts with whoever wounded a woman who of damage in a centuries-
and central Gaza, includ- ian attacks last spring are harms Israeli citizens.” police said attempted to old marketplace in Nab-
ing a weapons manufac- meant to dismantle militant Israeli police stepped up stab the guards. lus. In the Old City, shops
turing site and a military networks and thwart future security in sensitive areas Among the 10 killed in were riddled with bullets,
compound belonging to assaults. on Thursday, while Hamas Wednesday’s raid in Nab- parked cars were crushed,
the Hamas militant group But the operations have said its patience was “run- lus were Palestinian men and blood stained the ce-
that rules the enclave. shown few signs of slowing ning out.” Islamic Jihad, aged 72 and 61, and a ment ruins. Furniture from
There were no reports of in- the violence and Wednes- another militant group, 16-year-old boy, according the destroyed home was
juries in Israel or Gaza from day’s resulted in one of the vowed to retaliate. to health officials. Scores scattered among mounds
the rocket attacks or strikes. bloodiest battles in nearly A day after a raid in Janu- of others were wounded. of debris. q

Stockholm police head found dead after report criticized him

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A se- dard procedure. position. The investigator investigation into gross misconduct.q
nior Swedish police officer Löfving’s conduct was said those decisions raised
has been found dead in his under review both by an questions about Löfving’s
home, hours after the re- internal audit and a crimi- judgement as a manager
lease of an internal report nal investigation, in a case and suggested that the po-
that found a conflict of in- that shook Sweden’s po- lice leadership consider ter-
terest regarding decisions lice leadership and made minating his employment.
he had made about a for- headlines across the Scan- Later Wednesday, police
mer employee with whom dinavian nation. responding to a report of
he had a relationship, po- The probes focused on his an injured person at Löfv-
lice said. relationship with a female ing’s home found him
Mats Löfving, the chief of employee while he was the dead inside.
police in the Stockholm re- head of the police Nation- “It is incredibly tragic,”
gion, was found dead in his al Operations Department. Sweden’s chief of police
home in the city of Norrkop- The internal investiga- Anders Thornberg said late
ing, police said. He was 61. tion on Wednesday found Wednesday. “My thoughts
The cause of death was there was a conflict of in- go to Mats Löfving, his
not immediately clear and terest when Löfving made next of kin and work col- Stockholm regional police chief Mats Lofving is pictured on
police opened an investi- decisions regarding the leagues.” Prosecutors later Sept. 30, 2022.
gation as a matter of stan- employee’s salary and said they would drop the Associated Press