The raid comes amid rising tensions between Israel and Palestine. A Palestinian was killed and others injured on Saturday, April 9, in exchanges of fire during an ongoing Israeli army operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin, where the author of the story is from. deadly attack on Thursday in Tel Aviv, the army and a Palestinian ministry said.
“A young man was killed by Israeli bullets in Jenin and there are at least five wounded”the Palestinian health ministry reported, while the Israeli army confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) that it is currently carrying out an operation in the camp, considered one of the main strongholds of the Palestinian armed factions in the West Bank. .
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday gave the security forces carte blanche to “conquer” a new wave of “terror” in Israel, after the armed attack, Thursday evening, in the center of Tel Aviv, which left three dead, all Israelis, and a dozen injured.
Following a manhunt in the streets of the Israeli metropolis, the security forces located and killed in an exchange of fire the assailant, Raëd Hazem, 28 years old. A Palestinian “without known affiliation” to an armed faction, according to Israeli intelligence, and originating from Jenin in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Jenin, city at the heart of the second Intifada
After the attack that killed five people last week in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the Israeli army carried out an operation in the area of Jenin, where the assailant was also from. .
At least three fighters from Islamic Jihad, the main Palestinian armed Islamist movement after Hamas, were killed in exchanges of fire in this densely populated camp, which had been at the heart of the clashes during the second Intifada, Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s .
Twenty years ago, after deadly anti-Israeli attacks, the army launched a large-scale offensive in Jenin, during which 53 Palestinians, more than half civilians, and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed during ten days of intense fighting.
