Residents in one area assess the damage as Israel keeps fighting

The Israeli-Occupied Territories of Tulkarm: A Landscaping Camp for a Revolutionary Leader in the Struggle against Israel

Residents of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were assessing the damage on Saturday in the wake of a two-day raid by Israeli forces, which were pressing on elsewhere in the territory amid signs that fighting with Palestinian militant groups could spread.

In the Nur Shams neighborhood — which was a focus of the raid — Israeli bulldozers had chewed up large chunks of the roads, and many homes were still without running water, said Suleiman Zuhairi, a retired Palestinian Authority official from the area.

Two episodes further south in the West Bank prompted fears that the violence was getting worse, asIsraeli troops continued their operation in the city of Jenin.

Gunmen killed three Israeli police officers on Sunday morning as they drove through the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the latest episode in the spiral of violence in the territory that includes attacks by Palestinian and Israeli extremists, as well as ongoing raids by the Israeli military in Palestinian cities.

According to the Palestinian health authorities, the Israeli military raided three major cities in the northern West Bank and killed at least 22 people. The military said the operation was aimed at quelling armed Palestinian groups, but critics warned that the death and destruction caused by the raids risked encouraging the same violence that they aimed to reduce.

The funeral of a militant commander killed during the raid was held on Friday without his family present. The Israeli authorities are still holding Mr. Jaber’s body, according to his family.

The cult figure known as Abu Shujaa was in the neighborhood where he lived, and he was a leader in the armed struggle against Israel. The military said he had been involved in many terror attacks.

Neyaz Zendiq said that he spent the majority of the past few days with his family in Nur Shams. Mr. Zendiq’s son Jihad was killed during another Israeli raid in June.

But Mr. Zuhairi, the former official, said that Palestinians living in the camp — in search of a leader — had inflated Mr. Jaber into an “icon of struggle,” giving him a reputation that far exceeded his actual activities.

The Israeli Police in Israel and Magen David Adom’s Emergency Medical Service. Report of a gun-fire attack on the southern hemisphere

According to a statement from the Israeli police and Magen David Adom’s emergency medical service, officers were killed by gunfire while they were driving along a highway in the southern part of the West Bank.

The father of the police officer killed in the raid on southern Israel was one of the officers.

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