Israeli military exploded buildings in the Jenin Refugee Field in the occupied West Bank on Sunday in an operation that the Palestinian state news agency said it had destroyed about 20 buildings.
Images showed a series of simultaneous explosions in the densely populated refugee camp.
Thick clouds of smoke rose over the Palestinian city, where Israeli forces have led a major military operation for almost two weeks. The Israeli military says that the operation targets Palestinian militant combatants and the seizure of weapons stocks.
Explosive laboratories
The Israeli army said 23 structures were “dismantled” in northern West Bank after explosive laboratories, weapons, and observation posts were discovered by their strength.
In a previous statement on Sunday, military shared images of firearms, ammunition and what seemed to be gas cans. It was not revealed exactly where these images were taken.
The director of the Jenin Government Hospital, Wisam Baker, told the Palestinian state news agency that part of the hospital was damaged in the explosions, but there were no victims.
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Palestinian descendants
Jenin houses a refugee camp crowded with descendants of Palestinians who were expelled or fled their homes in the 1948 war when the State of Israel was established. The refugee camp has been a militant activity center for decades and the target of repeated attacks by Israeli security forces.
The forces of Israel, supported by helicopters and armored excavators, began the attack on the city on January 21, two days after the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas Militant Group.
Israel considers the West Bank as part of a multi-fridge war against Iran-supported groups around its borders from Gaza to Lebanon and including the hethis in the Yemen, and turned his attention to the area immediately after the interruption of combat in Gaza .
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The United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees said that almost all 20,000 residents of the Jenin Campo have been displaced in the last two months.
Hamas asked on Sunday a “climbing in resistance” against Israel after the destruction of buildings in Jenin.
The Palestinian Authority, rival of Hamas, exercises limited governance on the West Bank, where about 3 million Palestinians live, on which Israel maintains general military control.
