Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least ten Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “large-scale and significant military operation”.
“We are acting systematically and resolutely against the Iranian axis wherever it extends its arms – in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said. Judea and Samaria are terms Israel uses for the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian health services said at least ten Palestinians were killed and 35 wounded in the Israeli raid, which continued well into the night.
A week earlier, an Israeli air strike in the Jenin refugee camp killed at least three Palestinians and wounded scores more.
As the operation began, Palestinian security forces withdrew from the refugee camp and the sound of heavy gunfire could be heard in mobile phone footage shared on social media.
Dozens of Palestinians have been injured, including children. Others on the receiving end of Israel fire were bleeding out in the streets of Jenin as Israeli forces blocked ambulances from reaching them.
Israel’s border police forces operating in the Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem fired at three Palestinians who threw stones, citing Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday in Tel Aviv while the attacker was killed, Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said.
The police said an initial investigation “revealed that a terrorist armed with a knife stabbed three civilians on Nahalat Binyamin Street and one civilian on Gutenberg Street”.
Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv said it had received three stabbing victims, including one in “a serious condition with a knife wound to the neck” who was taken into surgery.
