Israel ends military incursion into Jenin after two days of offensive

The Israeli army ended this Wednesday the military operation that started on Monday in the city Jenin, the largest launched in the West Bank since the second intifada, twenty years ago, and it claimed lives ten people and more than a hundred wounded.

Military sources reported that “forces operating in the Jenin refugee camp have left and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have returned to routine activities in Judea and Samaria, the biblical name for the West Bank.”

The operation, which the Israeli media called as House and garden, started in the early hours of Monday morning, by land and air. The main objective of the raid was, according to the army statement, that the place was “not a safe place” for “terrorists” before increase in violence in recent months, with 50 armed attacks so far this year.

The Palestinians are coming back

Dozens of Palestinians Residents of the Jenin refugee camp returned to their homes in the camp this morning, where Israel’s two-day military operation left a clear trail of destruction. “I’m going back to my house, I don’t know if it will stand or not”Ibrahim, a 50-year-old Palestinian who fled to his daughter’s house outside the camp when the fighting began, told Efe.

Among the many streets with raised asphalt and remnants of glass, young s walkie talkie They are controlling access to the field and backhoes have already gone in to collect rubble. Water and electricity supply, interrupted by fighting since the first hours of the military offensive, has been restored in some places in the camp.

Amid the destruction, camp residents commented that they were happy to return home and “proud” of how the militias, united under the Jenin Brigade, “resisted Israel’s aggression.”