The Israeli army says that two soldiers were killed in the shooting attack on the occupied West Coast, as its forces continue their great operation against Palestinian armed groups in the north of the territory.
Eight more soldiers were wounded when the Palestinian striker opened a fire at a checkpoint in the village of Tayasir, 2 km (1.2 miles) north of Tubas, according to a military statement. The striker was shot, it was said.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad praised the attack in response to the Israeli operation in Tubas, Jenin and Tulkarm, but none said they were behind it.
In the meantime, the UN official warned that the situation in Jenin’s refugee camp was moving in a “catastrophic direction”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the beginning of a major surgery “Beat Terrorism” in Jenin on January 21, three days after he entered into force of the trial in Gaza’s belt. The surgery was extended to tulkarm and tubas last week.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that the Israeli forces have killed 70 Palestinians on the west coast, including occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year.
The picture includes 25 reported killed in the Jenin area and 13 in Tubas and Tulkar areas in the last two weeks.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that about 55 “terrorists” had been killed and arrested 380 desired individuals on the west coast in January.
The Israeli media reported that Palestinian who made the attack of a shooting in Tayasir on Tuesday managed to shine a military position next to the checkpoint before opened fire with a rifle of M16 near soldiers stationed there.
The soldiers shot back, and the battle with weapons lasted a few minutes before the attacker was killed, they said.
The IDF appointed two soldiers killed as SGT May Ofer Yung, 39, and SGT May Avraham Friedman, 43.
Two of the eight wounded soldiers were in a serious condition in the hospital, according to.
The head of the Central Command of IDF, Maj Gen Avi Bluth, said the attack “demonstration is the necessity of surgery against terrorism in [the West Bank]’
“We are determined to continue the surgery, expand it as needed and achieve a victory,” he added.
Hamas praised what he described as a “heroic and qualitative surgery conducted by the Palestinian fighter of resistance” in Tayasir, saying that he showed “the crimes of occupation and its aggression against the northern occupied Western coast will not go unpunished.”
On Monday, the spokesman for the President of the Palestinian Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, claimed that the Israeli surgery was part of a wider effort aimed at “displacement of citizens and ethnic cleansing”.
In an interview with Journalists in Geneva on Tuesday, Juliette Touma of the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned of a deteriorating situation in the Jenin refugee camp.
Hundreds of Israeli security forces assisted by helicopters, drones and armored bulldozers conducted attacks at the camp, long considered to be a stronghold of armed groups.
“The large parts of the camp have been completely destroyed in a series of detonations of Israeli forces. It is estimated that 100 houses have been destroyed or severely damaged,” said Ms. Touma.
“This detonation that happened on Sunday was when the kids were supposed to return to school,” she added.
The IDF said on Sunday that he “dismantled” 23 structures containing the laboratory of explosives, weapons, observation sites and other infrastructure belonging to the armed groups.
Mrs. Touma also said that UNRWA, who had not been able to provide services at the camp since the beginning of December, has not received a prior warning of the explosion of Israeli authorities.
On Thursday last year, the Israeli Parliament passed two laws forbidding UNRWA activity on Israeli soil and forbids the contact of Israeli officials and UNRWA employees. Israeli officials accuse UNRWA of being a copper with Hamas – a statement that the agency denies.
Mrs. Touma said that the Israeli government “did not tell UNRWA -and that they intended to implement” the laws, and that the UNRWA teams are currently “staying and delivering”.
