Bangs heard and smoke seen rising in Jenin area, West Bank as Israeli operation continues

Описание: (31 Aug 2024)
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Jenin, West Bank - 31 August 2024
1. Smoke rising behind buildings UPSOUND explosion, gunfire
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Smoke was seen rising in the city of Jenin in the West Bank, on Saturday after a day of Israeli raids.

The Israeli military struck the city on Friday, the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory.

The military said it attacked Palestinian militants and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city.

Such attacks, while common in the months-long Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, have been rare in the West Bank.

Israel says the raids across the northern West Bank — which have killed at least 20 people, mostly militants, since late Tuesday — are aimed at preventing attacks.

The Palestinians see them as a widening of the war in Gaza and an effort to perpetuate Israel’s decades-long military rule over the territory.

The latest Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank was the largest and the deadliest since the war began.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 663 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since then.

In the Gaza Strip, where the Health Ministry says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began on Oct. 7 with Hamas' attack on Israel, an Israeli missile hit a convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing several people from a local transportation company.

Israel claimed without evidence that it opened fire after gunmen seized the convoy.

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