[🇮🇱] Israel's War on West Bank

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Date of Event: Jan 24, 2025 Source : https://www.newagebd.net/post/middle-east/256189/hundreds-leave-jenin-as-israel-presses-raid

Hundreds leave Jenin as Israel presses raid
Agence France-Presse . Jenin 24 January, 2025, 00:50

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A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation.

The Israeli military launched the raid in the Jenin area days into a ceasefire in the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the objective of the operation, dubbed ‘Iron Wall’, is to ‘eradicate terrorism’ in the area.

He linked the operation to a broader strategy of countering Iran ‘wherever it sends its arms — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen’ and the West Bank.

The Israeli government has accused Iran, which supports armed groups across the Middle East, including Hamas in Gaza, of attempting to funnel weapons and funds to militants in the occupied Palestinian territory.

‘Hundreds of camp residents have begun leaving after the Israeli army, using loudspeakers on drones and military vehicles, ordered them to evacuate the camp,’ Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub said.

The Israeli army said it was ‘unaware of any evacuation orders for residents in Jenin as of now’.

Since it began on Tuesday, the operation has killed at least 12 Palestinians and wounded 40 more, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

‘There are dozens of camp residents who have begun to leave,’ Jenin resident Salim Saadi said.

‘The army is in front of my house. They could enter at any moment.’

Israeli forces have also detained several Palestinians from the Jenin area, with an AFP photographer seeing a row of blindfolded men in white jumpsuits being transported out of the West Bank.

Palestinians had already begun fleeing the Jenin area on foot on Wednesday, with AFPTV images showing a group of men, women and children making their way down a muddy road, the sound of drones buzzing above them clearly audible.

The Israeli military said on Thursday it killed two Palestinian militants near Jenin during the night, accusing them of having killed three Israelis.

In a statement, the military said that Israeli troops found the two militants barricaded in a house in the village of Burqin.

‘After an exchange of fire, they were eliminated by the forces,’ it said, adding one soldier was wounded in the gunfight.

The two men were wanted for the killing of three Israelis and the wounding of six others in a January 6 attack on a bus in the West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry later confirmed the two deaths.

Violence has surged across the occupied West Bank since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s attack on southern Israel.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 850 Palestinians, including many militants, in the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war began.

During the same period, at least 29 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military operations in the territory, according to Israeli official figures.

The Jenin raid began after a truce took effect in Gaza on Sunday, halting 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.

The October 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israel’s history, resulted in the deaths of 1,210 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.

Hamas also took 251 people hostage, 91 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 the military has said are dead.

The attack sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has killed more than 47,200 people, the majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.

Under the terms of the truce, Gaza militants handed over three Israeli women they had been holding since 2023, in exchange for the release of around 90 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

On Saturday, the two sides are due to carry out a second swap.

During first phase of the ceasefire, which is intended to last 42 days, Israeli forces are withdrawing from densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire followed months of fruitless negotiations mediated by Qatar, the United States and Egypt.​

 

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Israeli raid in West Bank kills one

The Palestinian health ministry said one person was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after a deadly series of air strikes in the occupied territory...

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Israeli raid in West Bank kills one
Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem 03 February, 2025, 00:07

The Palestinian health ministry said one person was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after a deadly series of air strikes in the occupied territory.

The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the West Bank last month dubbed ‘Iron Wall’ aimed at rooting out Palestinian armed groups from the Jenin area, which has long been a hotbed of militancy.

The Palestinian health ministry said Sunday that a 73-year-old man had been killed by Israeli gunfire in the city’s adjacent refugee camp.

Witnesses reported a ‘large’ deployment of Israeli forces in the morning around the towns of Tubas and Tamun, southeast of Jenin.

An AFP journalist said the army was blocking the exits of the nearby Faraa refugee camp and entering homes. Drones were also visible in the sky.

The army said early on Sunday that a ‘tactical group’ had begun operations around Tamun and uncovered weapons.

It added it was ‘extending the counterterrorism operation to five villages’.

It also distributed leaflets in Arabic saying the operation was meant to ‘eradicate armed criminals, the lackeys of Iran’.

The Israeli government accuses Iran, which backs armed groups across the Middle East including Hamas in Gaza, of attempting to send weapons and money to militants in the West Bank.

The leaflets warned residents not to approach Israeli forces.

On Saturday, Israel conducted two air strikes in Jenin, and also ‘struck and eliminated a terrorist cell on its way to carry out an imminent terrorist attack’ in Qabatiya, the military said adding ‘two terrorists’ were killed.

‘After the strike, secondary explosions due to explosives that were inside the vehicle were identified,’ it said on Sunday.

Islamic Jihad’s military wing confirmed in a statement on Sunday that two of its fighters were among those killed.

The military said one of those killed had been released from Israeli detention in 2023 as part of the first truce in the Gaza war.

The Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday evening that Israeli strikes in the Jenin area had killed five people, including a 16-year-old.

When asked about that strike, the military said had ‘struck armed terrorists’.

Violence has surged across the West Bank since the Gaza war broke out in 2023.

Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 882 Palestinians, including many militants, in the West Bank since the start of the war, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

At least 30 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military raids in the territory over the same period, according to Israeli official figures.​

 

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Israel to keep troops in West Bank camps

Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians...

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Israel to keep troops in West Bank camps
Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem, Undefined 23 February, 2025, 23:46

Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The military one month ago began a major raid against Palestinian militants in the West Bank just after a truce began in the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian territory.

The Israeli operation in the West Bank spans multiple refugee camps near the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas.

‘So far, 40,000 Palestinians have evacuated from the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams, which are now empty of residents,’ defence minister Israel Katz said in a statement.

‘I have instructed [troops] to prepare for a prolonged presence in the cleared camps for the coming year and to prevent the return of residents and the resurgence of terrorism,’ he added.

According to the United Nations, the Israeli offensive has so far killed at least 51 Palestinians, including seven children, and three Israeli soldiers, as well as displacing at least 40,000 people.

On Sunday, Israel’s military said ‘a tank division will operate in Jenin’ as part of ‘expanding’ operations in the area. This is the first time tanks have operated in the territory since the end of the second intifada, or uprising, in 2005.

‘The Nahal [infantry] Brigade and [elite] Duvdevan Unit forces have begun to intervene in other villages’ in the north of the territory, Katz’s statement said, adding that the forces ‘are continuing their operations in the Jenin and Tulkarem regions.’

The statement comes two days after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a rare visit to troops in the territory, ordered the army to step up its operations in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.

His visit to Tulkarem refugee camp drew Palestinian condemnation.

Netanyahu’s announcement came after bombs that Israeli officials said resembled those used by militants in the West Bank exploded on multiple empty buses in central Israel on Thursday, without causing any injuries.

‘We are entering terrorist strongholds, flattening entire streets that terrorists use, and their homes. We are eliminating terrorists, commanders,’ Netanyahu said.

In both Tulkarem and Jenin, the army has demolished dozens of homes with explosives, opening up new access routes into the densely built camps.

Armoured bulldozers have wreaked havoc, upturning tarmac, cutting water pipes and tearing down roadside facades.

Violence in the West Bank has surged since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023.

Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 900 Palestinians, including many militants, in the territory since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

At least 32 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the territory over the same period, according to Israeli official figures.​

 

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UN ‘gravely concerned’ by violence in West Bank

The UN chief yesterday voiced alarm at rising violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and calls for annexation after Israel announced expanded military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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UN ‘gravely concerned’ by violence in West Bank
Gaza truce in doubt as first phase nears end

The UN chief yesterday voiced alarm at rising violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and calls for annexation after Israel announced expanded military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israel on Sunday said its troops would remain for many months in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank. Tens of thousands of Palestinians living there have been displaced by an intensifying military operation.

"I am gravely concerned by the rising violence in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and other violations, as well as calls for annexation," Antonio Guterres told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

He also stressed the importance of the fragile ceasefire in place in Gaza since January 19, reports AFP.

Hamas says talks with Israel depends on release of prisoners

As the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is meant to be drawing to an end, it has once again been put in doubt.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said later on Sunday that Israel was prepared to resume fighting against Hamas after the Palestinian group accused it of endangering a five-week-old Gaza truce by suspending prisoner releases.

Hamas official Basem Naim said talks with Israel through mediators on further steps in a ceasefire agreement are conditional on Palestinian prisoners being released as agreed, reports Reuters.

The White House on Sunday backed Israel's decision to delay releasing the Palestinian prisoners, citing the "barbaric treatment" of Israeli hostages by Hamas.

The delay was an "appropriate response" to the Palestinian group's treatment of the hostages, a statement from National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said.​

 

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Israel accused of wanting to ‘annex West Bank by force’

Palestinian group Islamic Jihad on Monday accused Israel of wanting to ‘annex the West Bank by force’ after Israel deployed tanks into the occupied territory for the first time in decades.

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Israel accused of wanting to ‘annex West Bank by force’
Agence France-Presse . Gaza City 24 February, 2025, 22:30

Palestinian children and journalists disperse as Israeli tanks enter the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday. | AFP photo

Palestinian group Islamic Jihad on Monday accused Israel of wanting to ‘annex the West Bank by force’ after Israel deployed tanks into the occupied territory for the first time in decades.

Israel said on Sunday its troops would remain for many months in refugee camps in the northern West Bank, after tens of thousands of Palestinians living there were displaced by an intensifying, weeks-long military operation.

The military also announced tank deployments in Jenin, where it said it was expanding its operations. This is the first time tanks have operated in the occupied West Bank since the end of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in 2005.

In a statement, Islamic Jihad said Israel’s use of tanks and the evacuation of three Palestinian refugee camps ‘confirms the occupation’s plans to annex the West Bank by force.’

The group, which alongside Hamas fought a deadly war against Israel in Gaza until a ceasefire was announced last month, described the move as ‘a new act of aggression’.

It was ‘aimed at uprooting our people from their land and consolidating military domination by creating settler corridors that reinforce the separation of West Bank cities and their camps,’ the group said.

Defence minister Israel Katz on Sunday said that three Palestinian refugee camps — Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams — were ‘now empty of residents’ following Israel’s offensive, which began last month.

Katz said he had instructed troops ‘to prepare for a prolonged presence in the cleared camps for the coming year and to prevent the return of residents and the resurgence of terrorism’.

He put the number of displaced Palestinians at 40,000, the same figure provided by the United Nations which said the offensive had so far killed at least 51 Palestinians including seven children, and three Israeli soldiers.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare visit to troops in the territory last week and ordered the army to step up its operations in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.

Violence in the territory has surged since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 900 Palestinians, including many militants, in the territory since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

At least 32 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the territory over the same period, according to Israeli official figures.​

 

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Israel accused of damaging historic West Bank mosque

Palestinian officials denounced the partial burning of a historic mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, which they said had been carried out during a raid by Israeli armed forces.

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Israel accused of damaging historic West Bank mosque
Agence France-Presse . Nablus, Palestinian Territories 08 March, 2025, 22:16

Palestinian officials denounced the partial burning of a historic mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, which they said had been carried out during a raid by Israeli armed forces.

AFPTV footage from Friday showed Palestinians inspecting the blackened and partially charred interior of the al-Nasr mosque—a landmark in Nablus’ Old City.

Witnesses interviewed by AFP said the military operation took place between 2:00am and 6:30am.

When contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately provide official comment on its operations in the northern West Bank city.

Local religious authorities said a total of six mosques had been targeted.

The destruction came as Muslims marked the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

In a statement, the Palestinian ministry of endowments and religious affairs called the damage to the Nablus mosques ‘a serious attack in its size and timing’, and condemned ‘a systematic plan... in the desecration of our holy sites, mosques and places of worship’.

Nablus endowments director Sheikh Nasser Al-Salman denounced ‘the Israeli occupation’s barbaric invasion of Nablus mosques’.

In a statement, he accused Israel of ‘working hard to violate Islamic holy sites and mosques at an accelerated pace’.

Israel has been waging a weeks-long offensive in the northern West Bank that began around refugee camps regarded as bastions of Palestinian militancy.

It has since expanded to more areas, displaced tens of thousands of people and saw the first deployment of Israeli tanks in the territory in 20 years.

In a statement, the Nablus municipality condemned Israeli forces’ ‘burning of the al-Nasr mosque, which is considered a historical mosque and an important heritage landmark inside the Old City’.

Nablus municipality mayor Husam Shakhshir said Israeli forces had obstructed firefighting crews and prevented them from reaching the scene of the fire.​

 

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