Hundreds of inhabitants of Jenin left their houses in the city in the West Bank on Thursday, which were caused by news from drones that were provided with speakers, Witnesses said when the Israeli military destroyed a number of houses on the third day.
The operation in which large columns of vehicles with helicopters and drones were supported was launched in the first week of a ceasefire in Gaza, in which the first exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisons in Israeli prisons for a short ceasefire in November 2023 had occurred.
Israeli civil servants said that the Jenin operation was aimed at the fact that the military with the militant-supported militant groups in the refugee camp next to the city, a large turntable for armed Palestinian groups, were for years.
“We have to be ready to continue in the Jenin camp that brings it to another place,” LT-gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the Israeli military, said in a statement.
Panzer Bulldozer dug streets, make movement in the city more difficult, but hundreds of people left their houses in the camp, dragged suitcases or wear plastic bags after saying that they had been able to evacuate.
“We didn’t want to go yesterday, we were at home,” said 16-year-old Hussam Saadi. “Today they sent a drone to our neighborhood and told us that we should leave the camp and they will chase them into the air.”
The Israeli military denied that the residents had asked the residents to leave their houses. It said that it was “every resident who decides to do this with the protection of the Israeli security forces through safe and organized routes”.
After months of negotiations, Israel and Hamas are closer to an armistice than ever. The national breaks down how the ceasefire could develop.
When the operation continued, the sound of shots and the constant sum of the drones above the refugee camp could be heard. There was little movement in the city on the streets.
The film material published by the Israeli military showed that troops detonated an explosive on the side of the road.
On Wednesday overnight, Israeli troops killed two armed men after a shootout in a building in Burqin outside of Jenin. The two were suspected of performing an attack near the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq at the beginning of this month, in which three Israelis were killed.
Both were strongly represented by the armed wing of Hamas, which strongly represented in the refugee camp, a crowded community for descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced in the Middle East War.
A total of 12 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the operation and 40 other wounded, said Palestinian health officers.
The attack, the third major operation of the Israeli military in Jenin in less than two years, warns warnings from France and Jordan against an escalation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has had a torture stabbing since the beginning of the war.
