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An Israeli strike on Wednesday killed three Palestinians in a car in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the army reporting an Islamic Jihad fighter was “eliminated”. AFP journalists saw a crowd gathered around the charred remains of a vehicle and blood on the pavement in the northern West Bank city of Jenin after the army said: “An aircraft struck two senior Islamic Jihad operatives.” The military said it had “eliminated” Ahmed Barakat, who it accused of a May 2023 attack that killed an Israeli settler. Three other Palestinians were also “struck” in the attack, …

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