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Israeli forces killed three individuals and detained a minimum of 14 others in an in a single day raid within the West Bank metropolis of Jenin, the Israeli army stated on Wednesday.
The army stated that the raid had focused “terrorism” and was a part of a broader operation within the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority’s information company, Wafa, stated Israeli forces had stormed two homes in a densely packed space of Jenin, leading to “violent confrontations.”
The company reported {that a} 26-year-old man had been killed, three individuals had been injured and houses and autos had been broken. It stated eight Palestinians had been detained throughout the raid, which started when undercover Israeli particular forces entered the world.
Most of the violence was in a crowded neighborhood of the town that was based greater than 70 years in the past as a refugee camp for Palestinians displaced within the wars surrounding the creation of the state of Israel. The neighborhood has lengthy been a bastion of armed resistance towards the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Israeli army raids there, frequent for years, have change into way more frequent for the reason that Hamas-led terrorist assault launched towards Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7.
On Wednesday afternoon, simply hours after Israeli forces withdrew from Jenin, residents had been nonetheless “very anxious and scared” and anticipating one other raid, main some to go away for close by cities, stated Faraj Jundi, a resident of the camp and a volunteer paramedic.
When information of the raid reached him round 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Mr. Jundi stated, he instantly gathered his spouse and 6 kids within the most secure room of their house and tried his greatest to calm them down earlier than he headed out to deal with the wounded. He was nonetheless very apprehensive about his household, he stated, as a result of “there isn’t any security within the camp.”
By the time Israeli forces left, Mr. Jundi stated, “The odor of demise, sewage, and blood and the odor of concern and terror” permeated the camp, the place roads and different infrastructure — already severely broken by earlier raids — had been bulldozed by Israeli forces. “We concern that we may undergo the identical destiny as Gaza,” he stated.
Since the Oct. 7 assaults set off Israel’s struggle with Hamas in Gaza, lots of of Palestinians have been detained in raids within the West Bank, which Israeli officers describe as counterterrorism operations towards Hamas and an extension of the struggle.
At least 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces within the West Bank in since Oct. 7, based on well being officers, making it the deadliest interval there in almost twenty years. Deadly violence towards Palestinians by Israeli settlers within the West Bank has additionally reached document ranges since Oct. 7, based on the United Nations.
This week, the International Court of Justice in The Hague began listening to six days of arguments over Israel’s “occupation, settlement and annexation” of Palestinian territories, together with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
It is the primary time the world’s highest court docket has been requested to provide an advisory opinion on the difficulty, which has been the topic of years of debates and resolutions on the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly requested the court docket to evaluate the legality of Israeli insurance policies within the Palestinian territories greater than a 12 months in the past, earlier than Israel’s struggle towards Hamas in Gaza.
Adam Sella and Cassandra Vinograd contributed reporting from Tel Aviv.
