About 3,000 Palestinians have fled the Jenin refugee camp since Israel began an operation targeting the densely populated refugee camp early Monday.
In the occupied West Bank, at least nine people have died and a hundred others have been wounded in Israeli attacks, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Of the wounded, 20 have received serious injuries.
The death toll has surpassed the Israeli attack on Jenin two weeks ago, which killed seven people.
Early Monday, Israeli forces launched a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank that included airstrikes and hundreds of soldiers. The attacks on the city of Jenin, located in the northern part of the West Bank, have been a British newspaper of the Guardian among the largest in the West Bank in two decades.
According to Israeli officials, the attack was the start of a “broad counter-terrorism effort” centered on the densely populated refugee camp in Jenin, writes Washington Post magazine.
According to the Israeli Armed Forces, soldiers had clashed with armed individuals in a mosque located in the Jenin camp, and weapons and explosives were later found in the building.
About 3,000 Palestinians have fled the Jenin refugee camp since the Israeli military launched its massive operation. The deputy governor of Jenin told news agency AFP about the matter Kamal Abu al-Roub. According to Al-Roubi, around 18,000 Palestinians live in the refugee camp.
“We bomb from the air and attack on the ground”
Firefights and explosions have shaken the city of Jenin and the neighboring refugee camp. Palestinians have been throwing stones at Israeli soldiers and smoke rising from explosions and burning barricades has darkened the sky, an AFP correspondent says. According to the correspondent, the fighting continued late into the evening.
– They are bombarded from the air and attacked on the ground, said the head of the Jenin-based Palestinian Red Crescent.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called the attack that began on Monday an open war against the Jeninites.
Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned about violence. According to Guterres’ representative, the Secretary-General has called for international humanitarian law to be respected in the region.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has also reported that a Palestinian youth has died due to Israeli gunfire in a separate incident near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Source: AFP