About 1,000 Israeli soldiers backed by drone strikes stormed Jenin, a crowded and impoverished refugee camp, on Monday. At least eight people were killed and 80 injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, with 17 in critical condition.
JERUSALEM — About 1,000 Israeli soldiers backed by drone strikes stormed Jenin on Monday, targeting a militant “command center” in the most expansive Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank in two decades.The assault marked the start of an “extensive counterterrorism effort” centered on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp, according to Israeli officials.
The crowded and impoverished Jenin camp, a sprawling warren in the center of the city, is largely unpoliced by Palestinian Authority security forces and is known as a hub for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other armed factions. “Our main focus is basically breaking that safe-haven mentality,” Hecht said. “We are not trying to hold ground; we are acting against very specific targets.”
Gun battles still broke out periodically, according to witness accounts and video on social media. In the afternoon, soldiers fought their way into a mosque that had been harboring shooters, according to Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesman. Israeli officials publicly assured Palestinian leaders that they were not directing the attacks at the Palestinian Authority, which has security control of that section of the West Bank under the terms of the 1990s Oslo accords.
The IDF said it was boosting air defense readiness in southern Israel in the event of rocket fire from Gaza.
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