A Palestinian was killed and 16 others were injured during an Israeli army operation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday aimed at destroying the residence of the author of a deadly attack in Tel Aviv, announced the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
“There was a 29-year-old martyr and 16 people injured by bullets or shrapnel as a result of the Israeli aggression on Jenin,” the Palestinian ministry said in a brief message to the press. According to security and medical sources, the man killed is called Mohammad Sabaaneh and was shot in the head.
During the night, the Israeli army had indicated that it was carrying out an operation in Jenin to destroy the house of the author of a fatal attack on three Israelis on April 7 in the heart of Tel Aviv.
It was led by Raed Hazem, a Palestinian “without known affiliation” to an armed group according to Israeli intelligence, who was shot dead by Israeli police after a manhunt in the streets of Tel Aviv.
From mid-March to early May, 19 people were killed in a wave of anti-Israeli attacks, particularly in the metropolitan Tel Aviv area.
Some of these attacks were carried out by Israeli Arabs linked to the Islamic State organization, and others by Palestinians, some of whom are from Jenin, a stronghold of the armed factions in the northern West Bank.
In the wake of these attacks, the army launched operation “Break the wave”, increasing raids in the West Bank, and in particular in the sectors of Jenin but also of Nablus, a large city in the north of this territory occupied since 1967. by Israeli forces. These raids were often interspersed with clashes, or armed clashes, with Palestinians that left dozens dead.
“As part of this operation, around 1,500 wanted people were arrested and hundreds of attacks prevented,” Israeli army chief Aviv Kohavi said Monday, adding that Mahmoud’s Palestinian Authority security forces Abbas was “unable” to control certain areas of the West Bank.