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Gallery|Israel-Palestine conflict

Photos: Israeli troops kill nine Palestinians in Jenin raid

Elderly woman among dead in latest raid targeting Jenin refugee camp in occupied West Bank.

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Palestinians inspect a damaged house after an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp on January 26, 2023. [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
Published On 26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023
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Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded 20 during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian officials said an elderly woman was among the dead in the latest raid since Israel intensified such operations last year.

An Israeli army statement said its forces conducted a counterterrorism raid to apprehend “a terror squad” belonging to the Islamic Jihad armed group.

Islamic Jihad confirmed battling Israeli forces as they carried out the unusually deep raid into Jenin’s refugee camp. The death toll – the highest in Jenin in years – drew a warning from the group that its truce with Israel, called after a brief exchange of fire across Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip last year, could be in danger.

During the raid, local youths threw rocks at army vehicles from the entrances to the camp’s cramped alleyways. As the Israeli troops withdrew and the smoke and tear gas cleared, civilians streamed into the camp to check on casualties. A two-storey building that had been the focus of the fighting was heavily damaged.

There were no Israeli casualties.

Medics said the situation in the refugee camp was critical and Israeli forces were stopping ambulances from reaching people who were wounded.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during raids in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem in January has risen to at least 29 people, including five minors. At least 15 of those killed were from Jenin. More than 170 Palestinians were killed in such raids in 2022, many of them civilians.

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An emergency worker responds at the building burned by Israeli soldiers in Jenin. [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]
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Israeli soldiers detonated two explosive devices and killed suspects in the building, according to the army. [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]
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Local youths pelted Israeli military vehicles with stones during the raid. [Majdi Mohammed/AP]
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Palestinian children look out of their homes after the Israeli raid. [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh released a statement calling on the United Nations and international human rights organisations to “intervene urgently to provide protection for Palestinian people and stop the bloodshed of children, youth and women”. [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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Saleh al-Arouri, a prominent leader of the Hamas movement running the besieged Gaza Strip, said the “response of the resistance will not be delayed". [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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An elderly Palestinian man mourns after the Israeli raid. [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]
Palestinians inspect a damaged house following an Israeli raid in Jenin
The Israeli military said special forces had been sent into Jenin to detain Islamic Jihad fighters suspected of carrying out and planning “multiple major terror attacks”. [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]


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