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Palestinian toll mounts as Israel steps up West Bank raids

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and JALAL BWAITEL, JOSEPH KRAUSS and JALAL BWAITEL, Associated Press
Published: August 29, 2022, 9:30am
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Mourners take a last look at the body of Palestinian Salah Sawafta, 58, who was shot and killed outside a bakery as he returned from dawn prayers earlier this month, during an early morning Israeli army arrest raid, at his funeral in a mosque, in the West Bank city of Tubas, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in cities, towns and villages, making it the deadliest in the occupied territory since 2016.
Mourners take a last look at the body of Palestinian Salah Sawafta, 58, who was shot and killed outside a bakery as he returned from dawn prayers earlier this month, during an early morning Israeli army arrest raid, at his funeral in a mosque, in the West Bank city of Tubas, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in cities, towns and villages, making it the deadliest in the occupied territory since 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) Photo Gallery

TUBAS, West Bank (AP) — At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in cities, towns and villages, making it the deadliest in the occupied territory since 2016.

The military says the vast majority were militants or stone-throwers who endangered the soldiers.

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