Fight in Gaza ends, Israel starts military surgery in the West Bank

Fight in Gaza ends, Israel starts military surgery in the West Bank

The Israeli army killed at least seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, while the prime minister announced the beginning of a "large -scale military operation" in the troubled city.

military offensive in Jenin

The Security Cabinet of Israel started the military offensive - which the Israeli army, the police and the security service Shin Bet - to "eradicate terrorism in Jenin," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement. The operation bears the name "iron wall".

Operation according to Gaza Agreement

The military action started only a few days after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into force in the Gaza Strip. Already in August and September, the Israeli army carried out an important and fatal military operation in northern West Bank, which it called "Operation Summer Camp".

attacks on Jenin

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli war planes Jenin bombed and Israeli troops, including snipers and armored vehicles, which surrounded the city's refugee camp and retired. Local journalists have published videos that show a large number of armored vehicles, including armored bulldozer, that enter the city.

Unclear about the fatalities

It is still unclear whether the seven killed civilians or fighters were. The armed arm of the Islamic jihad, the Al Quds brigades, said her fighters had shot on advancing Israeli troops around the refugee camp.

criticism of netanyahu

The Islamic jihad called the Israeli military surgery an attempt by Netanyahu to save its "shaky government coalition" and to spoil the "joy" of the release of Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank as part of the Gaza cafe arrest. "We call our people throughout the occupied West Bank to combat this criminal campaign by all means and to thwart the goals," said the militant group in a statement.

new war goals

The Israeli finance minister Bezhalel Smotrich, a right-wing extremist nationalist who was against the Gaza cotton arrest, said on Tuesday that security in the West Bank was added to the country's "war goals". CNN asked the prime minister's office to confirm this statement.

change in the security concept

"After Gaza and Lebanon, we started to change the security concept in Judea and Samaria and the fight against terrorism in the region," he said using the biblical name that Israelis used for West Bank.

injured and deaths

The Palestinian Ministry of Health, which reported the victims, stated that 35 people who were injured as a result of Israeli operation were brought to several hospitals in the city. One day before the start of the operation, the head of the General Staff of the Israeli defense forces (IDF), Herzi Halevi, explained that the army "had to prepare for significant missions" in the West Bank.

claims and reactions

Israeli troops and settlers have killed 851 Palestinians in the West Bank on October 7 on October 7 and in the occupied Eastern Jerusalem, including 173 children. According to the United Nations, the year 2024 has been the third -fatal year for Israelis in West Bank since the beginning of data collection in 2008, with 34 Israelis - 15 soldiers and 19 civilians - dying. Of these civilians were seven settlers.

Operation of the Palestinian Authority

At the end of the last month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) started its own security operation to combat militant groups associated with Hamas in the city. The militants claim that the government based in Ramallah had sold to Israel. The fights ended 43 days after they started after a fragile agreement.

attempt to create order in the refugee camp

The PA security forces have tried to arrest dozens of men who describe them as lawless and who try to "kidnap" the refugee camp, which was founded for Palestinians after the foundation of Israel in 1948. The warehouse is now an inhabited area with around 25,000 people.