At least four people have been killed in two Israeli airstrikes on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Al Jazeera reporters. The attacks occurred on Tuesday morning, following an earlier raid by Israeli forces in the area targeting a currency exchange shop, which they claimed was linked to the financing of the Hamas movement.
Al Jazeera reporter Nida Ibrahim reported that Israeli forces had visited Aqqaba near Tubas, leading to an armed confrontation. Local sources indicated that Palestinians discovered an undercover Israeli unit surrounding one of the local residences, which escalated tensions. According to Ibrahim, Israeli forces used violence against Palestinians, some of whom were not involved in the clashes.
Mohaidden Abu Sbaih, a witness to one of the airstrikes in Jenin, described how Israeli bulldozers appeared in the area while warplanes flew overhead. Within five minutes, an Israeli aircraft struck a building in the vicinity. Following the attack, local residents found the bodies of the four deceased, whom Abu Sbaih referred to as “gangs” in reference to the Israeli military.
Fatah (Fatah Movement), the Palestinian political party leading the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, condemned the Israeli attacks, stating that the “bloody Israeli murder practices” would not prevent the Palestinian people from defending their “national rights.” In a statement, they concluded that the attacks on Jenin and Tubas “unequivocally confirm that the extreme occupying government seeks systematic escalation with official American approval, support, and bias” and aims to eradicate the rights of the Palestinian people.
Fatah urged the international community to “take on its role in immediately stopping the war of extermination” against the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced that Israeli forces have arrested 16 individuals in the West Bank over the past 24 hours. The arrests took place in Hebron, Bethlehem, Tubas, Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, and Qalqilya. This brings the total number of Israeli arrests in the West Bank since October 7 to 9,970, according to the group’s latest update.