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06-07-2023
JERUSALEM/ JENIN: Funerals are under way after two days of clashes between Palestinian fighters and Israeli troops in the Jenin refugee camp.
Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed since Monday
Israeli drones carried out air strikes while troops engaged in firefights with armed Palestinians.
Israel’s military described it as a “counter-terrorism operation”, while the Palestinian foreign ministry said it was an “open war against the people of Jenin”.
In the early hours of Wednesday Israel carried out air strikes in Gaza in response to rocket fire, its military says.
Earlier on Tuesday, seven people were hurt in a car ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv.
There were drone strikes, armored bulldozers and hundreds of soldiers involved in Israel’s major two-day military operation in Jenin’s decades-old refugee camp.
The army says it uncovered weapons labs and stores and has today been showing journalists the large quantities of guns, bullets, explosive devices and protective vests which it says it seized in the camp.
It says some were found in hideouts, pits, and mosque & in vehicles.
The Israeli military claims that all 12 Palestinian men and teenage boys who were killed in its raid were militants and that it was successful in avoiding casualties of unarmed civilians.
So far, it has been confirmed to media that eight of the dead were members of the military wings of the main Palestinian factions.
A Palestinian doctor told me that civilians were among some 120 people injured.
Longer-term, Israeli military analysts suggest the impact of this operation is likely to be limited.
“At best it’s a paracetamol for a terminal illness,” said Avi Issachar off, a journalist known as one of the creators of the TV series, Fauda, in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
He predicted that the Jenin refugee camp might now be “a bit less dangerous in terms of the weaponry it holds” but that no reduction in the overall number of Palestinian attacks on Israelis should be expected. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
