Israel’s defence minister says military applying ‘method’ from Gaza war in major raid on occupied West Bank’s Jenin.Israeli forces are applying methods learned during the war on Gaza to their ongoing “Iron Wall” military operation in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence minister said, where troops have killed at least 10 people in Jenin and ordered residents to flee the area’s refugee camp.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the Jenin operation, which is entering its third day, marks a shift in Israel’s military plan in the occupied West Bank and was “the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza”.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to give details of the Jenin operation, which began on Tuesday and is the third major incursion by the Israeli army in less than two years into Jenin, a longtime stronghold of resistance to Israel’s decades-old military occupation of Palestinian territory.
Residents inside the Jenin refugee camp reported constant gunfire and explosions on Wednesday while the Palestinian health services reported at least four wounded in the camp.
A man pushes an elderly woman in a wheelchair, as Palestinians flee the Jenin refugee camp amid an Israeli military raid, in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that Israeli forces have used “advanced weaponry and warfare methods, including air strikes” on the Jenin camp, which is now “nearly uninhabitable” with an estimated 2,000 families displaced from the area since December. Advertisement
Israel’s “massive operation” in Jenin also “threatens to undermine the fragile ceasefire reached just days ago in Gaza”, said Roland Friedrich, UNRWA’s director of affairs for the occupied West Bank and East Je …
