The military operation in the Jenin region, in the occupied West Bank, has ended and the soldiers have withdrawn from the area, the Israeli armed forces announced Wednesday.
During the two days of the operation, 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed.
“Officially, the operation ended and the soldiers left the Jenin region,” an armed forces spokeswoman said.
This military operation, the largest for several years in the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, was launched on Monday. Hundreds of soldiers were mobilized and army ‘drones’ and ‘excavators’ were used.
The city of Jenin and the refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups, have been targeted by Israeli operations on several occasions.
The northern West Bank has recently seen a wave of attacks against Israelis and anti-Palestinian violence by Jewish settlers.
On Tuesday night, five rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian territory, and intercepted, the Israeli army advanced today.
“In response to rockets fired overnight from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, warplanes hit an underground weapons factory used by the terrorist organization. [do Movimento de Resistência Islâmica] Hamas, as well as a factory that produced raw materials for rockets,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
A Palestinian security source said a military facility belonging to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip was attacked but no injuries were caused.
The day before, an attack in Tel Aviv left seven injured, one of them seriously.
Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, welcomed the attack, calling it “a first response to crimes against Palestinians in the Jenin camp.”
*News updated at 7:56 am
Source: TSF
