The Israeli army announced just after midnight that they are carrying out a “comprehensive counter-terror operation”. They claim to have attacked a joint operations center that was used as a command center for the Jenin brigades. On Twitter, the Israeli army writes that Israel will not accept that what they claim are terrorists hiding in the city’s refugee camp. They write that the attack was aimed at “terrorist infrastructure”. Air strikes According to Reuters citing Palestinian sources, at least one missile was fired. A residential building and an assembly hall are said to have been hit in Jenin. Israel says the building was used as an “advanced observation and reconnaissance center” and that weapons and explosives were stored there. The building is located in the refugee camp in Jenin, writes Haaretz. In addition to the five dead, at least 27 others were injured, three of them seriously. An injured man is carried away by paramedics in Jenin. Photo: Raneen Sawafta / Reuters Smoke from hospitals According to the BBC, several air strikes were carried out by aircraft during the night. Videos published on social media show smoke rising from an apartment block. In a photo that Reuters has published, smoke is also supposed to be rising from a hospital in the city. Smoke rises over Jenin in the morning hours. Photo: Mohamad Torokman / Reuters Moved into refugee camp Sources in Jenin tell the newspaper that Israeli forces have surrounded the refugee camp, and that there may be more dead than reported by the Palestinian authorities. The DPA news agency cites Palestinian reports that Israeli soldiers entered Jenin shortly after the airstrike and fought Palestinian militants. A spokesman for the Jenin battalion says, according to the BBC, that they “will fight the occupation forces until our last breath and our last bullet. We must work together and are united in all factions and groups”. The battalion must deploy masked and armed men in the narrow back streets of the refugee camp. Ahmed Zaki, who lives in the camp, told the BBC that columns of Israeli military vehicles drove into the outskirts of the camp from several sides last night. Smoke rises from the refugee camp in Jenin on Monday morning. Photo: Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP At the same time, a Palestinian man has been killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers near the Israeli settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, according to Haaretz. More attacks In June, three militant Palestinians were killed in a drone attack on a car in Jenin, the first Israeli drone attack there since 2006. The IDF has not specified whether Monday’s attack was a drone. Israel often has actions in Jenin, which is located in Samaria in the north of the West Bank. Several Palestinian militia groups, including Hamas and the Islamic Holy War, have fighters in the city. A few days before the drone strike in June, Israeli forces used Apache helicopters for the first time in over 20 years in an attack on the West Bank. It happened after Israeli forces on the ground encountered armed Palestinian resistance in Jenin. Six Palestinians were killed in the attack. Seven Israeli soldiers and border police officers were wounded. After the attack, unrest broke out in Jenin, and protesters set fire to car tires in the streets. Photo: Raneen Sawafta / Reuters Many killed Since the turn of the year, more than 130 Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers, DPA writes. At the same time, 22 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian are said to have been killed in Palestinian attacks. Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967. The occupation has been declared illegal by the UN and in violation of international law.
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