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Despite mounting pressure, government is yet to open a national inquiry into attack, which launched the Gaza war.

A Palestinian police officer, identified as Younis Ishtayeh, shot and wounded an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Thursday, and Israeli counterterrorism forces killed the suspect the next day. The incident adds to growing signs of rising violence in the West Bank following months of general calm.

Israeli forces have carried out military strikes in both Gaza and Lebanon this week leaving several people dead despite ceasefires in place.

Violence has repeatedly flared up in the weeks since a cease-fire was reached, killing hundreds of Palestinians and at least three Israeli soldiers.

Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.