Publish: 12:10, 28 Aug, 2024

Israel launches major West Bank operation

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Israel launches major West Bank operation

At least 11 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say, BBC reports.

Five were reportedly killed in an air strike in al-Far’a refugee camp, and six in a drone strike and armed clashes in Jenin.

According to the Israeli security forces, they were carrying out "a counterterrorism operation to thwart terror" in Jenin and Tulkarm.

This appears to be a major Israeli operation, with at least four Palestinian cities being targeted at the same time - Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus and Tubas.

It is believed to be the first time since the second intifada - a major Palestinian uprising from 2000 to 2005 - that several Palestinian cities have been targeted simultaneously in this way. 

Palestinian reports say that the main roads into Jenin have been closed off with armed clashes in the city’s refugee camp.

An Israeli air strike is said to have targeted a vehicle in a nearby village at dawn.

Israeli forces are said to have entered a hospital in Jenin and blocked off two in Tulkarm.

Israeli military raids of Nablus are reportedly focused on two refugee camps there.

In Far’a camp near Tubas, medics say ambulances are struggling to reach the wounded after an Israeli drone strike.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that the Israeli Defense Forces have been "operating with full force since last night in the Jenin and Tulkarm refugee camps to dismantle Iranian-Islamic terror infrastructures established there".

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