The deadly raids, which Israel calls the ‘Iron Wall’ campaign, were launched just days after a ceasefire was agreed on in Gaza.
A teenager was among five people killed in Israeli air attacks in Jenin as the Israeli army’s deadly raids continued across the occupied West Bank.
In the first attack, an Israeli drone hit a group of people on a street in the city of Jenin, killing 16-year-old Ahmad al-Sadi and wounding two others critically, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency and local officials.
The Palestinian Health Ministry later said four more had been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Jenin area.
The second and third attacks occurred minutes later in two separate locations, according to the governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al-Rub.
“After the strike that killed the child [Sadi], an Israeli drone strike hit a car in Qabatiya and killed two youths,” al-Rub told the AFP news agency.
“Minutes later, another drone strike in Jenin killed two more youths who were on a motorcycle.”
The deadly raids, which Israel calls the “Iron Wall” campaign, were launched just days after a ceasefire was agreed upon in Gaza. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 20 Palestinians across the occupied territory, and wounded dozens of others.
In addition to the deadly attack on Jenin, the Israeli army also carried out intensive military operations in Tulkarem city and its refugee camp for a sixth consecutive day, forcing Palestinians to leave their homes.
Israeli forces also stormed several other areas of the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including the nearby Balata camp, Nablus and the al-Ein refugee camp.
The Israeli army carried out a series of raids overnight, including shooting at civilians in a car on Halhul-Hebron Bridge north of Hebron and arresting those inside, and setting a house ablaze near a mosque south of Hebron.
In a separate overnight raid, the Israeli military also fired gas grenades at houses in Hebron’s west as the military searched the home of freed prisoner Shehadeh al-Jiyawi, Wafa reported.
Besides raids, the Israeli military also carried out arrests, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
One Palestinian man was arrested after Israeli forces stormed into his house in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya. A second man, a student at Birzeit University, was arrested after Israeli forces stormed into his home in the Deir Ammar refugee camp, west of Ramallah.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army and settlers have killed at least 880 Palestinians in attacks across the occupied West Bank.
On Thursday, Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa described what is happening in the occupied West Bank as “a systematic effort to destroy the foundations of the Palestinian state”.
“We are witnessing military incursions into northern West Bank governorates, accompanied by killing, detention, infrastructure destruction and demolition of homes and structures. This demands urgent international action to put this to an end.”
Earlier this month, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum restraint” from Israeli forces. He told a UN Security Council meeting about his fears of “an existential threat to the integrity and contiguity” of Gaza and the occupied West Bank from Israel.
