It is Israel's most intense military operation in the West Bank in nearly 20 years and its reminiscent of its military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s. Read more:
Israeli troops were pressing ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons on Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys.
"We are alarmed at the scale of air and ground operations that are taking place in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and airstrikes hitting a densely populated refugee camp," Vanessa Huguenin, a spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office, said. The operation comes at a time of growing domestic pressure for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four Israelis.Airstrikes started at 1.14am on Monday using armed drones and destroyed a target in the centre of Jenin's refugee camp, close to UN-funded schools.
A senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel was close to completing its Jenin operation.
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