The Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, during which twelve Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed, is over, announced on Wednesday July 5, the army. At the same time, it carried out airstrikes on Gaza, in ” response to rocket fire “.
” The operation is officially over and the soldiers have left the Jenin area “, city in the northern West Bank from which the Israeli military began to withdraw on Tuesday evening, an army spokeswoman told AFP on July 5, 2023. This military operation, the largest since several years in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967, was launched two days ago. Hundreds of soldiers were mobilised, along with army drones and bulldozers. Twelve Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed during the storming of the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila called the operation on Tuesday night “ of aggression that defies international law “.
During this, the city of Jenin and the refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups, were repeatedly targeted by Israeli military operations. The army announced that it had struck a joint operations center of a local armed group, the Jenin Brigade and several targets including six explosives manufacturing workshops “. These fights provoked the exodus, from Monday evening, of “ about 3,000 residents of the refugee camp, where some 18,000 Palestinians live, according to the deputy governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al-Roub. The northern West Bank has seen a recent spate of attacks on Israelis as well as anti-Palestinian violence by Jewish settlers.
Around the Gaza Strip too
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, five rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian territory, and intercepted, the Israeli army said on Wednesday. ” In response to rockets fired overnight from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, fighter jets hit an underground weapons factory used by the terrorist organization Hamas, as well as a factory producing raw materials for the rockets “, said the Israeli army in a press release, Wednesday, July 5.
A Palestinian security source said for his part that a military site of the Islamist movement Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip had been hit, without causing injuries. The day before, a car bombing in Tel Aviv injured seven people, including one seriously, an attack hailed by Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, speaking “ of a first response to the crimes against our people in the Jenin camp “.
(With AFP)
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