Jerusalem (BLAZETRENDS).- The Israeli Army continued to act tonight in the Jenin refugee camp in a large-scale operation – the largest since the Second Intifada – against local militias that began early Monday morning and has so far resulted in a total of 10 Palestinians killed and about 100 wounded.
The death toll increased this morning as the Palestinian Red Crescent services found another dead person on the outskirts of the camp, in the midst of a scenario of extensive destruction and material damage from yesterday’s fighting, although tonight the clashes seemed to have relatively less intensity.
According to a military spokesman in a statement, in recent hours the troops “continued their antiterrorist activities.”
They located an underground well that “was used to store explosive devices” and “dismantled two rooms belonging to terrorist organizations” used to monitor “the operational situation” in the area.
They also “neutralized a grenade launcher” and “confiscated weapons and military equipment”, in a strong operation called “House and Garden” that yesterday included a dozen air attacks from drones and a ground incursion with a thousand troops inside the refugee camp of Jenin, one of the epicenters of the Palestinian armed resistance in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Operation focused on weakening the Jenin Brigade
The Army’s operation is focused on weakening the Jenin Brigade, an armed group that brings together various militias from the countryside and which gained weight after being founded about a year ago.
Heavy fighting yesterday inside the narrow streets of the refugee camp left its residents without water or electricity and few food supplies, and last night some 3,000 people were evacuated amid fears that the clashes could escalate.
Given the situation, the Red Crescent medical teams “transported urgent relief supplies to Jenin to help the displaced citizens of the camp”, and among other supplies they distributed “blankets, mattresses, hygiene kits and water”.
In turn, this morning Israel’s National Security Adviser, Tzaji Hanegbi, assured Channel 12 news that the military operation “is getting closer to achieving its objectives” and Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said last night that could last “one or two more days”.
This is the largest incursion into the occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada (2000-2005), which has led to a new escalation of tension in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which in 2023 is experiencing its deadliest year for two decades. with 153 Palestinians killed in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most of them militants in armed clashes with Israeli troops, but also civilians, including 26 minors.
Simultaneously, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groups, which carry out more and more attacks and have left 25 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers and five of them minors.
