Jenin: At least 10 killed during an Israeli military operation, and 4 wounded in a stabbing incident in Tel Aviv

An Israeli army spokesman said, “The IDF, the Shin Bet, and the Border Guard launched a military campaign to thwart terrorist activities in Jenin.”

The Israeli army sent military reinforcements to the city of Jenin and its camp, according to the Palestinian News Agency.

Video clips from Jenin were published on social media showing civilians being injured while walking on the road, but the BBC was unable to independently verify the authenticity of the videos.

The army launched a series of air strikes coinciding with the entry of large numbers of forces into Jenin and its camp, with support from drones, helicopters, and armored bulldozers, according to what Palestinian media reported.

On the other hand, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that “its fighters in Jenin are waging fierce battles with the enemy forces in the camp’s fighting axes, raining down heavy showers of bullets and explosive devices on the enemy forces and military vehicles, causing confirmed casualties,” according to a statement.

Subsequently, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said that at least 9 people were killed, while about 40 others were injured as a result of the Israeli military operation in Jenin. The Ministry later announced the killing of another Palestinian in the village of Taanak, west of Jenin, bringing the total number of deaths to at least ten people.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian News Agency reported that “electricity was cut off in a number of neighborhoods of the city and the camp after a large explosion was heard in the camp,” noting that Israeli warplanes continue to fly heavily in the sky of the city, “amid a siege of the entrances to the Jenin camp.” He sent large military reinforcements to the city, according to the agency.

The Israeli army says that many Palestinian militants “depart from the city of Jenin and its camp to carry out attacks on Israeli targets.”

The governor of the city of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub, described the Israeli army operation as an “invasion” of the city of Jenin and the camp, adding to Agence France-Presse, “This came quickly, Apache helicopters in the sky and Israeli military vehicles everywhere.”

The director of Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin, Wissam Bakr, spoke about the injury of three doctors and two nurses by Israeli army bullets, according to what was reported by the Palestinian News Agency.

Bakr said that they were “injured in different locations, near Jenin Governmental, Al-Amal, and Al-Razi Hospitals.”

The Israeli army imposes “a siege completely around the camp, and snipers target any citizen who tries to leave it,” while its bulldozers destroyed “a number of streets in the city of Jenin and its camp,” according to what the agency reported.

Last December, the Palestinian security services launched a military campaign in the camp with the aim of pursuing those they described as “outlaws,” and continued that campaign intermittently.

The spokesman for the Palestinian security services, Anwar Rajab, said in a statement that the Israeli forces “stormed the city and camp of Jenin and opened fire on citizens and security forces,” noting that a number of members of the Palestinian security forces were injured, including a serious injury.

Palestinian security personnel withdrew from some of their positions around the Jenin camp before Israeli forces entered, according to reports.

For his part, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Muhammad Mustafa, said that he directed Palestinian embassies and missions around the world to address representatives of various countries with “the necessity of urgent action and pressure to stop the illegal aggressions and measures of the occupation,” denouncing during a cabinet session “the aggressive Israeli measures against the city of Jenin and its camp.” He installed new iron gates to isolate Palestinian villages and cities from each other.”

The Israeli army also carried out “incursions” into a number of other areas in the occupied West Bank, according to what the Palestinian News Agency reported.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Israeli army to exercise “utmost restraint” in Jenin.

This comes a day after US President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term.

Upon assuming office, Trump signed a set of executive orders, including an executive order to lift US sanctions on “extremist settlers” in the West Bank.

In light of these developments, the Hamas movement called on the people of the occupied West Bank to “general mobilize,” “escalate the clash” with the Israeli forces in Jenin, and work to confuse them and thwart what it described as the “widespread Zionist aggression” against the city of Jenin and its camp.

Hours after the start of the Israeli operation, four people were injured, one of them in serious condition, in a knife attack in Tel Aviv, before the Israeli ambulance service announced the death of the perpetrator of the attack.

The Israeli police said that a preliminary investigation “showed that a terrorist armed with a knife stabbed three civilians on Nahalat Binyamin Street and another civilian on Grozenberg Street.”

Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv said earlier that it received three wounded people with stab wounds, and that “one of them was seriously injured due to a stab wound to the neck and was admitted to the operating room, while the other two wounded sustained minor injuries and are in the emergency department.”

In a statement, Hamas praised the operation, which it described as “heroic,” noting that the perpetrator of the operation was of Moroccan nationality, called Abdel Qadhi Aziz.

The Israeli police reported that the attacker who carried out the stabbing was a foreign citizen, aged 28, without specifying his identity.