(5 Sep 2024)
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Jenin, West Bank – 5 September 2024
1. Various of explosion, smoke rising from within Jenin refugee camp
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A large explosion, followed by a plume of smoke, was seen rising over the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
It coms as hundreds of Israeli forces have for more than a week carried out the deadliest operation in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began.
Their focus has been the Jenin refugee camp — a bastion of Palestinian militancy that has grown more fervent since the Hamas attack on Israel that launched the war.
Israel has been carrying out large-scale raids which it says are aimed at dismantling militant groups and preventing attacks.
Palestinians fear a widening of the war in Gaza.
Israeli military officials say the operation targeting militants in Jenin, Tulkarem and the Al-Faraa refugee camp is necessary to curb recent attacks against Israeli civilians they say have become more sophisticated and deadly. One Israeli soldier has been killed in the operation.
The Jenin raid has been devastating for Palestinian civilians, too.
Water and electric service have been cut, families have been confined to their homes and ambulances evacuating the wounded have been slowed on their way to nearby hospitals, as Israeli soldiers search for militants.
Jenin has long been a flashpoint in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It was originally established to house Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.
But over time the refugee camp morphed into a crowded, urban neighbourhood that — like the rest of the West Bank — has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
Since war broke out on October 7, Israeli forces have stepped up their raids on Jenin, often launching drone strikes on targets there. But until the most recent raid, most had only lasted several hours, or at most a few days.
More than 680 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since October, most by Israeli troops and some by settlers, according to local health officials.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a query seeking the number of Israelis killed in the West Bank over the same period.
AP video shot by Jalal Bwaitel
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