AS TENSION GROWS IN THE WEST BANK, THE UN PLEADS FOR THE END OF OPERATIONS THERE

 UN CALLS ON ISRAEL TO END THE DEEPLY WORRYING AND CONCERNING OPERATION IN THE WEST BANK 

• The head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, urges Israel to stop its operation in the West Bank, saying it is "fuelling an already explosive situation"

• Israel began what it called a "counter-terrorism operation" in four areas of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, with at least nine people killed 

  
  
  
  The raids are believed to be the first time since the second intifada - a major Palestinian uprising from 2000 to 2005 - that several Palestinian cities have been targeted simultaneously

• On the second day of raids, Israel's military says it killed five "terrorists" who had hidden in a mosque.

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