He Israeli Army He said on Wednesday that he had “Nine armed terrorists eliminated” in attacks in four cities in the West Bank, in a new operation simultaneous to the war in Gaza.
Violence has increased in West Bank during the Gaza conflict unleashed by the attacks unprecedented attack by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7 against Israel.
The offensive on Gaza has already left more than 40 thousand dead in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-ruled territory, in addition to extensive destruction and the displacement at least once of almost all of its 2.4 million inhabitants.
In the West Bank, during the night, The Israeli army launched coordinated attacks on the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Tubas and Tulkaremwhich he described as an “anti-terrorist operation” with bombings and armored convoy raids.
The Palestinian Red Crescent estimated at Ten Palestinians dead overnight: two in Jenin, four in the bombing of a car in a nearby town and four others in a refugee camp near the town of Tubas. He also said there were 15 wounded.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has cut short a visit to Saudi Arabia to return to the West Bank and “follow the evolution of the Israeli aggression” in that territory, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Although the Israeli military operations have become a daily occurrence in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, and it is rare for them to take place in several cities simultaneously.
In recent weeks, these operations have been concentrated mainly in the north of the territory, where the armed groups fighting against the rebels are more active. Israel.
“The army has been operating with all its forces since the evening in the Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps to dismantle the Iranian Islamist terrorist infrastructure located there,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.
On the social network X, Katz accused Iran of wanting to “establish a terrorist front in the east of Judea and Samaria,” a name that corresponds to the territory of the occupied West Bank, “following the model of Gaza and Lebanon,” where Hezbollah, Tehran’s main ally, has been launching rockets at Israel almost daily since the beginning of the war in Gaza.
The Israeli army announced on Monday that it had bombed the Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem and the Palestinian Authority reported five deaths.
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One of them was identified as Jibril Jibril, a Palestinian released from an Israeli prison in November as part of the only truce in Gaza so far.