Minister says Israel applying ‘lessons’ from Gaza in West Bank operation

Israel’s defence curate says subject applying ‘method’ from Gaza warfare successful large raid connected occupied West Bank’s Jenin.

Israeli forces are applying methods learned during the warfare connected Gaza to their ongoing “Iron Wall” subject cognition successful the occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence curate said, wherever troops person killed astatine slightest 10 radical successful Jenin and ordered residents to fly the area’s exile camp.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said connected Wednesday that the Jenin operation, which is entering its 3rd day, marks a displacement successful Israel’s subject program successful the occupied West Bank and was “the archetypal acquisition from the method of repeated raids successful Gaza”.

An Israeli subject spokesperson declined to springiness details of the Jenin operation, which began connected Tuesday and is the 3rd large incursion by the Israeli service successful little than 2 years into Jenin, a longtime stronghold of resistance to Israel’s decades-old subject concern of Palestinian territory.

Residents wrong the Jenin exile campy reported changeless gunfire and explosions connected Wednesday portion the Palestinian wellness services reported astatine slightest 4 wounded successful the camp.

A antheral pushes an aged pistillate successful a wheelchair, arsenic Palestinians fly the Jenin exile campy amid an Israeli subject raid, successful the occupied West Bank connected Wednesday [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

The UN’s bureau for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said connected Wednesday that Israeli forces person utilized “advanced weaponry and warfare methods, including aerial strikes” connected the Jenin camp, which is present “nearly uninhabitable” with an estimated 2,000 families displaced from the country since December.

Israel’s “massive operation” successful Jenin besides “threatens to undermine the fragile ceasefire reached conscionable days agone successful Gaza”, said Roland Friedrich, UNRWA’s manager of affairs for the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israeli media besides reported that 2 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces connected Wednesday successful the Wadi Burqin country adjacent the metropolis of Jenin.

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Palestinian quality bureau Wafa reported that Israeli forces had surrounded a gathering successful the municipality of Burqin and ordered the occupants to exit utilizing a loudspeaker.

Air strikes from Israeli drones deed the location portion soldiers connected the crushed fired antitank grenades astatine the building, which was past flattened by subject bulldozers.

As the Israeli raid got nether mode connected Tuesday, 10 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded successful the Jenin area, including children and aesculapian workers.

Jenin’s governor, Kamal Abu al-Rub, told the AFP quality bureau that the concern was “very difficult” arsenic Israeli subject bulldozers had torn up each roads starring to the Jenin exile campy and Jenin’s authorities hospital. Israeli forces had besides detained astir 20 radical from villages astir Jenin since the cognition began connected Tuesday, helium said.

Israeli soldiers with Palestinian men arrested during a subject raid connected Jenin successful the occupied West Bank connected January 22, 2025 [Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP]

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum restraint” from Israeli forces successful Jenin and expressed heavy concern, according to his lawman spokesman, Farhan Haq.

On Monday, Guterres told a UN Security Council gathering of his fears implicit “an existential menace to the integrity and contiguity” of Gaza and the occupied West Bank from Israel and amid the “unabated” enlargement of amerciable Israeli settlements.

The UN main said that “senior Israeli officials openly talk of formally annexing each oregon portion of the West Bank successful the coming months”.

“Any specified annexation would represent a astir superior usurpation of planetary law,” helium said.

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