Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the military action, which included the Israeli military, police, and Shin Bet security agency, was started by Israel’s security cabinet in an effort to “eradicate terrorism in Jenin”. “Iron Wall” is the name of the operation, he said.
In response, Hamas issued a statement urging for “people in the West Bank and its revolutionary youth to mobilize and escalate the clash with the occupation army at all points of contact with it”.
According to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa, Israeli soldiers, including armored vehicles and sharpshooters, were encircling the city’s refugee camp and preventing ambulances from entering after Israeli airplanes hit Jenin.
Just two days after the Gaza ceasefire went into force, the Israeli prime minister declared the beginning of a “large-scale military operation” in the unrest-plagued city of Jenin, which resulted in the deaths of at least ten Palestinians, including a child, in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
