Israel launched a lethal strike on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank early Monday, attacking what it called the “operational command center” of Jenin Brigade militants. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that three were killed in the strike.
provided by the IDF indicated that the strike occurred in the congested Jenin Camp, in the vicinity of a medical center and school. The IDF also released a video that suggested Israeli security forces were on the ground in Jenin.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that three people were killed in the strike and 25 injured, withAdvertisementreported, adding that Jenin Brigade militants said they were engaging with Israeli forces. “Most of the terror attacks against Israelis originated from Jenin,” the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, wrote onafter the strike, adding that the camp had become an Iranian stronghold in the past two years.
Islamic Jihad, a Tehran-backed militant group that Western nations regard as a terrorist organization, said in a statement that it would not be deterred by the strikes. “Jenin will not surrender,” said the organization, which has a following in the city.frequent deadly raids by the IDF, which says it is responding to attacks on civilians inside Israel that were planned in Jenin. The standoff has raised fears about a return to the bloody guerrilla warfare of two decades ago that killed thousands in the region.
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