Israeli army raid on Palestinian camp in Jenin leaves one dead and injured
Tear gas canisters are fired from an Israeli military vehicle near the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on April 9, 2022. AFP - JAAFAR ASHTIYEH
Text by: RFI Follow
2 mins
A Palestinian was killed and several injured on Saturday, April 9, in exchanges of fire during an Israeli army operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin, where the perpetrator of the deadly attack on Thursday is from. in Tel Aviv.
Advertisement
Read more
"
A youth was killed by Israeli bullets in Jenin and there are at least five
wounded," said the Palestinian Ministry of Health, while the Israeli army confirmed to AFP that it was carrying out an operation in this camp, considered one of the main strongholds of Palestinian armed factions in the occupied West Bank.
"
Armed assailants fire on the armed forces and border police carrying out a counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp... In response, the troops fire in the direction of the attackers
," the Israeli army said. which did not report any injuries in its ranks.
A carte blanche from the government
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had given carte blanche the day before to the security forces to "
defeat
" a new wave of "
terror
" in Israel, after the armed attack Thursday evening in the center of Tel Aviv, which made three dead, all Israelis, and a dozen wounded.
"
Anyone who helped (the assailant), indirectly or directly, will pay the price
," warned Mr. Bennett.
The Tel Aviv attack was welcomed by Islamic Jihad and Hamas, two main Palestinian armed Islamist movements, but condemned by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also leader of the secular Fatah party.
Israeli soldiers patrol on March 30, 2022 in a village south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian assailant is believed to have departed from before killing five people in a previous gun attack in Israel.
© AFP
This offensive in Jenin is the second in about a week for the Israeli forces.
After the fatal attack on five people last week in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the Israeli army raided the area where the assailant was also from.
At least three fighters from Islamic Jihad, the main Palestinian armed Islamist movement after Hamas, were killed in exchanges of fire in this densely populated camp.
Already 20 years ago, after deadly anti-Israeli attacks, the army launched a large-scale offensive there during which 53 Palestinians, more than half civilians, and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed in ten days of intense fighting.
►
To read also: Israel: two dead in an attack in Tel Aviv, the assailant killed
Newsletter
Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_EN
Palestinian territories
Israel
Israelo-Palestinian conflict