Israel launches deadly raid on occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp

Several radical person been killed arsenic the Israeli subject raided the Jenin exile campy successful the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian wellness services said at slightest 10 Palestinians were killed and 35 wounded successful the raid, which was launched successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, continued good into the nighttime and is expected to past for days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the operation, dubbed “Iron Wall,” was intended to “eradicate terrorism” successful the area.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said its archetypal responders treated 7 radical injured by unrecorded ammunition, adding that Israeli forces were hindering entree to the area.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum restraint” from information forces and said that helium “remains profoundly concerned”.

Israeli NGO B’Tselem accused the Israeli authorities of utilizing the Gaza ceasefire arsenic “an excuse and accidental to ratchet up the oppression of West Bank Palestinians”.

“This is not what a ceasefire looks like,” it said.

Jenin politician Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP the cognition was “an penetration of the (refugee) camp”.

“It came quickly, Apache helicopters successful the entity and Israeli subject vehicles everywhere,” helium added.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian information forces said successful a connection that Israeli forces had “opened occurrence connected civilians and information forces, resulting successful injuries to respective civilians and a fig of information personnel, 1 of whom is successful captious condition”.

Al Jazeera’s elder governmental expert Marwan Bishara said that attacking Palestinians successful the West Bank was ever apt aft hostilities successful Gaza halted.

The raid besides served to deflect nationalist attraction aft the resignations of Israeli subject commanders for their admitted nonaccomplishment to support Israel from the Hamas onslaught successful October 2023, helium suggested.

“I deliberation the Netanyahu authorities is deflecting. Where does it deflect? In the West Bank. In Jenin. By assorted closures and by a immense onslaught connected Jenin that astir apt volition spell connected for days, weeks – possibly more.”

In caller months, raids person accrued successful frequence and strength successful Jenin.