Ten people killed in Israeli raids on northern occupied West Bank, Red Crescent says

Ten Palestinians have been killed in the northern occupied West Bank, a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on Wednesday, August 27. Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four in a car bombing in a nearby village and four others in a refugee camp near the city of Toubas, the aid organization said. The Israeli army announced that it had “started an anti-terrorist operation” in this area, where she says she has “eliminated nine armed terrorists” during several simultaneous raids.

“The army has been operating with all its forces since nightfall in the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarem to dismantle the Iranian-Islamist terrorist infrastructures established there.”Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz commented on the social network X. He accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of wanting “establish a terrorist front” in the West Bank “on the model of Gaza and Lebanon”. He further claims that “Sophisticated weapons are being smuggled from Jordan” in the West Bank.

Israeli incursions into Palestinian autonomous areas are a daily occurrence in the West Bank. However, it is rare for them to be carried out simultaneously in several cities, as was the case on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli army has also carried out several air raids on refugee camps or cities in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. In recent weeks, Israeli operations in the West Bank have focused on the northern West Bank, where armed groups fighting against Israel are particularly active.

Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, more than 650 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli army or settlers, according to official Palestinian data. At least 20 Israelis, including soldiers, have died in Palestinian attacks or during army operations in the Palestinian autonomous zone, according to official Israeli data.