Israel’s Channel 12 television said the man was suspected of shooting two brothers from a Jewish settlement near the village of Huwara last week but there was no official confirmation nor immediate details on the operation from the Israeli military.
Footage circulating on social media showed helicopters over a column of military vehicles entering the city, one of the major centres of armed Palestinian factions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Huwara, a Palestinian village near a major road junction where settlers and Palestinians have frequently clashed, has become the latest flashpoint in months of worsening violence in the West Bank.
Overnight on Monday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the village, the scene of a violent rampage last week by dozens of settlers seeking revenge for the shooting of the two Israelis as they sat in their car in traffic.
Israeli army and border police forces dispersed crowds of what the military described as…
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