At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank, AFP reports according to a spokesman for the Red Crescent.
Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four others in a nearby village, and four more in a refugee camp near the town of Tubas, said the Red Crescent’s Ahmed Jibril. He added that 15 others had been wounded.
The Israeli army said early Wednesday it was carrying out an “operation to thwart terrorism in Jenin and Tulkarm” in the northern West Bank.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the forcible transfers of Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank in a post on X. “Our army is working hard in the Jenin and Tulkarem camps to dismantle the Islamic-Iranian infrastructure that have been established there,” Katz writes.
“Iran is trying to establish an eastern front against Israel in the West Bank, similar to the model in Gaza and Lebanon, by financing and arming terrorists and smuggling advanced weapons from Jordan.
“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required. This is a war for everything and we must win it.”
