The Israeli army left the Tulkarem area devastated after they vacated the place only to increase their attacks on Jenin.
The largest military operation in Israel’s occupied West Bank territory in two decades is in the third day as more houses have been demolished with the army, using bulldozers after shooting live bullets and tear gas.
Three people were reported to have been killed as early as Friday when Israeli forces targeted a car in the village of Zababdeh south of Jenin.
This was after Israel’s military claimed that one of their aircraft had “targeted a terrorist group” there after what it described as an ‘engagement with security forces’. To the incidents of the strike, clips were recorded that depicted a car on fire.
The al-Quds Brigades of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said earlier that its fighters were in “intense battles” with the Israeli soldiers in Jenin.
Included in the death toll, the Israeli army said, was the commander of Hamas in Jenin, Hassam Ayman Hazem. Even the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, reported his death.
He said the Palestinian Red Crescent Society accused Israel of denying the Palestinian ambulances access to the area of the operation, as claimed by the Wafa news agency.
Israeli troops pulled out of this city of Tulkarem and its two refugee camps on Thursday night after three days of operations in this region during which a fifty-four-year-old man, three other citizens, and many others were killed, and critical damage was done to civilian property and facilities.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from the Nur Shams refugee camp, the correspondent Nida Ibrahim said that Palestinian Civil Defense teams were attempting to repair some of the Israeli raid’s impact, which saw roads demolished and any further movement difficult.
