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The Israeli military continued what it called a new counter-terrorism operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting at least 25 people in the last day, Palestinian media reported.
The total number of dead since the start of the attack rose to 10, up from eight on Tuesday, and four more people were wounded in Jenin, according to Palestinian officials quoted by the official Wafa news agency. the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli attack, on the second day, was not only focused on Jenin.
On Wednesday, the military made arrests in Jenin, Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarm and Bethlehem, officials said. Security at Israeli checkpoints throughout the territory has slowed or halted traffic; in a case a A 45-year-old woman died at a checkpoint outside Hebron while waiting to be taken to a hospital, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The mayor of Jenin, Mohammad Jarar, told Wafa that the Israeli army detained about 600 people in the Jenin Government Hospital, but they were allowed to leave on Wednesday morning. The news agency described Israeli bulldozers blocking the hospital’s entrance with dirt from nearby streets.
Mr. Jarar also said that people were forced to leave their homes, a claim denied by Lt. Col. Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani. “There is no evacuation order in Jenin,” he said.
Speaking to journalists about the operation, Colonel Shoshani said that people in the hospital were kept temporarily to ensure that they would not be injured by the explosions which were detonated by soldiers nearby.
Since a temporary cease-fire was reached in Gaza at the weekend, Israel has turned its attention to the West Bank, where tensions have increased as the regime’s militants have grown and violence has escalated. Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians.
Colonel Shoshani said the operation in the West Bank was similar to that of the army in August. The 10-day attack in Jenin killed 21 people, according to Palestinian media and residents. It was one of the most extensive and deadly raids in the West Bank in years.
The colonel said the operation was Israel’s last-ditch effort to stop the militants’ attacks, many of which involved improvised explosive devices planted under civilian streets and Israeli military vehicles.
“Our strategy is to fight these terrorists while allowing the civilian population to continue their lives,” said Colonel Shoshani.
In a series of social media posts on Wednesday, Roland Friedrich, the West Bank director of the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, said the Israeli move was “expecting the last days”. and used heavy weapons in Jenin, including airstrikes.
