Israel says will pursue objectives of Jenin attack despite withdrawal of forces
Israeli regime says its forces will continue the atrocities against the city of Jenin to the north of the occupied West Bank despite reports on withdrawal of the troops from the city.
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The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday its “troops are continuing with the operation until its objectives are achieved”, without specifying those goals.
The statement claimed that the Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinian fighters in Jenin in the past 10 days, including Wissam Hazem, whom it identified as the commander of Hamas in the city, and arrested more than 30 “suspects.”
It also claimed to have destroyed “over 30 explosive devices planted under roads in the city.”
The Israeli military’s raid on Jenin and its refugee camp killed at least 21 people, including elderly people and children, and cut off water, power and sewage lines.
That statement came while media reports cited eyewitnesses as saying that the Israeli forces withdrew from the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and their camps in the northern West Bank, leaving a trail of destruction and deaths.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) described the past week as “the deadliest for Palestinian civilians in the West Bank since November last year.”
“As the war rages in Gaza, violence and destruction in the West Bank increase by the hour,” it said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, adding “This is unacceptable. It must stop now.”
However, Israeli hawkish minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Friday that he has requested that the regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu include the defeat of Hamas in the occupied West Bank among the goals of the genocidal war in Gaza to avoid the repetition of the October 7 operation.
“We must not repeat the mistakes, war on Hamas – also in Judea and Samaria!” he said in the post, which was accompanied by a copy of a formal letter, using the Israeli name for the West Bank.
Since the start of Israel’s aggression on Gaza, the West Bank has also seen a rise in violence from Israeli forces and settlers that claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinians.
The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 40,878 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 94,454 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.
