At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in the operation, mounted by an Israeli special-forces brigade, supported by drone strikes. Dozens have been wounded and captured
dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second night. Ambulances ferried the injured through makeshift roadblocks, flaming tires pumped a toxic black smoke into the air, and drones hummed faintly overhead. Israel’s army has carried out its largest raid on a Palestinian city in the West Bank since 2002, in an attempt to root out militants and destroy arsenals and explosive workshops there.
They have few illusions that they will not be returning. Jenin camp, among Palestine’s oldest camps and home to 18,000 people, covers less than half a square kilometre. But for two years it has posed both Israeli and Palestinian forces one of their biggest security problems. An armed group calling itself the Jenin Brigades has filled the vacuum left by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority’s security forces in the neighbourhood.
Israelis began paying more attention to the situation there in the spring of 2022, when a series of terror attacks was carried out by militants based in Jenin, including one on Tel Aviv, where three Israelis were killed in a shooting spree in the main night-life district.
Pressure on the army to act also came from the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their influential backers in the right-wing cabinet of Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. On June 20th four settlers were killed in a shooting attack in a settlement elsewhere in the West Bank.
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