At least 10 Palestinians were killed Wednesday when Israel launched multiple raids and strikes across the occupied West Bank, according to local officials.
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 Palestinian Health Ministry also confirmed that seven people were killed early Wednesday in Tubas and another two in Jenin. The ministry identified the two killed in Jenin as Qassam Jabarin, 25, and Asem Balout, 39.
Palestinian resistance groups, meanwhile, said they were exchanging fire with the Israeli military. The governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al-Rub, said on Palestinian radio that Israeli forces had surrounded the city, blocking exit and entry points and access to hospitals, and ripping up infrastructure in the camp.
The Israeli military confirmed it was operating in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarem but did not provide further details.
The operation comes two days after Israel said it carried out an airstrike on the West Bank that the Palestinian Authority reported killed five people.
Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion triggered Tel Aviv’s genocidal war there.
Over 600 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by Israeli fire since, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Most have died during such raids.
Israel says the operations are required to dismantle Hamas and other resistance groups and to prevent attacks on Israelis, which have also risen since the start of the war.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three for a future state.
Israel has built scores of illegal settlements across the West Bank, which are home to over 500,000 Jewish settlers.
They have Israeli citizenship, while the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited control over population centers.
