A minimum of 103 Palestinians in the West Bank have actually been eliminated given that Hamas’s attack inside Israel on October 7 triggered Israeli action.
A minimum of 5 individuals have actually been eliminated by Israeli fire as the Israeli army performed a variety of over night raids in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities.
The Palestinian health ministry stated 3 individuals were eliminated early on Wednesday in an Israeli air attack on the Jenin refugee camp. 2 more youths were eliminated throughout raids in Qalqilya and Qalandiya, respectively, it included.
The Israeli armed force stated on Wednesday that a group of Palestinians at the camp “fired and tossed explosive gadgets” at its forces when they were performing “counterterrorism activities”. The army struck them with a drone, it stated, without discussing casualties.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Ramallah, stated Israeli forces entered into Jenin “with military-grade bulldozers that they utilize so frequently to ruin homes” of Palestinians in the West Bank.
“The primary focus of that raid was a refugee camp in Jenin, however there was another event in the town of Burqin, simply beyond Jenin. There were a variety of arrests made there,” he stated.
The West Bank has actually become another front in Israel’s war in Gaza.
It started on October 7 when Hamas, the armed group that runs the Palestinian enclave, assaulted southern Israel, triggering Israel to bombard Gaza with air attacks. The violence eliminated 1,400 individuals in Israel and more than 5,700 in Gaza.
A minimum of 103 Palestinians have actually been eliminated in the West Bank over the exact same duration, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The drone attack was at least the 3rd usage of Israeli air power in the West Bank.
Jenin refugee camp was the focus of a significant Israeli military operation previously this year.
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