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the army of Israel announced on Wednesday that it was terminating the two-day operation in Jeninin west bank occupation, which left 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead and sparked hostilities in the Gaza Strip. Loop.
This operation, the most important in years undertaken in this territory occupied by Israel since 1967, it had started on Monday, with the deployment of hundreds of soldiers, drones and army bulldozers.
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“The operation is officially over and the soldiers have left the area of Jenin“, in the north of west banka military spokeswoman told AFP, specifying that her troops began the withdrawal on Tuesday night.
Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed during the assault on the Jenin refugee camp. In addition, one hundred Palestinians were injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
This city and its refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups where 18,000 people live, are recurring targets of Israeli operations.
On Wednesday, as camp residents surveyed the destruction from the fighting — buildings pockmarked, cars smashed and bullet casings on the ground — thousands of people gathered for the funeral procession of the dead Palestinians, an AFP journalist observed.
“In our souls and our blood, we will sacrifice ourselves for you, martyrs.”the crowd chanted as armed militants fired shots into the air.
Israel’s right-wing prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuclaimed that Jenin and its refugee camp were a “nest of terrorists” and that they were going to do everything necessary to “eradicate it”.
In contrast, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al Kailaassured that the Israeli operation was a “aggression in defiance of international law”.
Rockets and shelling in Gaza
The raid sparked an exchange of hostilities in Loopfrom where five rockets were launched into Israel that were intercepted by the armed forces, the army said on Wednesday.
Israel responded by shelling an underground weapons factory in Hamas and a plant for the production of raw materials for rockets, it added.
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A Palestinian security source said on his side that the attack hit a military center of the Palestinian movement Hamas, in power in Gaza, without causing injuries.
The day before, a multiple hit-and-run in Tel Aviv It caused seven injuries, two of them hospitalized in serious condition. The author was aterrorist” West Bank resident who was shot dead by a passerby, police chief said Yaakov Shabtai.
Hamas celebrated the attack as “a first response to the crimes committed against our people in the Jenin camp”.
Violence is on the rise in the northern West Bank, where there are almost daily raids by Israeli forces.
In addition, Palestinian attacks against Israelis increased, as well as those carried out by Israeli settlers against the Arab population.
“heroic” battle
The Israeli army revealed that the operation hit “a joint operations center” of a local armed group, the Jenin Brigadeand various objectives including six “explosive manufacturing workshops”.
In a statement on Wednesday, the armed forces added that they had detained 30 suspects and confiscated weapons and money intended to finance terrorist activities.
These seizures occurred in “hidden apartments, in a mosque, in hidden wells in civilian areas, in military command rooms and in vehicles”, they detailed.
the palestinian group Islamic Jihad applauded the battle on Wednesday “heroicfrom Jenin. “Jenin and its countryside will remain a terror that haunts you”, he stated, addressing Israel.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turkcalled for an end to the violence in Israel and the West Bank, which has increased in recent months.
Since the beginning of the year, the violence associated with this conflict has left at least 190 Palestinians dead, 26 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian, according to an AFP count from official sources.
These statistics include combatants and civilians, including minors, on the Palestinian side. On the Israeli side, the majority are civilians, with also minors, and three members of the Arab minority.
Source: Elcomercio
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