Palestinian militias from Gaza five rockets were launched this morning towards Israel, all of them intercepted by the anti-missile system; to which Israeli aviation responded by bombing two military installations of the Islamist movement Hamaswho rules the enclave.
“Army fighter jets attacked an underground weapons manufacturing plant used by the chemical department of the terrorist organization Hamas, as well as a manufacturing plant for rocket raw materials of that group in the Gaza Strip,” one confirmed. military spokesman.
He attack on Gaza comes a few hours after the israeli troops began last night the withdrawal of the refugee camp of Yenínwhere they launched a large-scale military operation early Monday morning, the largest in west bank occupied since the Second Intifada, which for the moment has resulted in 12 Palestinian dead and an Israeli soldier.
“This attack significantly impeded the efforts to intensify the arms of the Hamas terrorist organization,” added the Israeli Army, which holds the group responsible for everything that happens in the enclave.
However, no group has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, which set off anti-aircraft alarms in the city of Sderotsouthern Israel, where a house suffered minor damage from shrapnel emanating from the detonation of an intercepted rocket in the air.
The Strip already suffered a five-day war escalation last May between Israel and the Islamic Jihad – without direct involvement of Hamas – in which they died 34 gases in the enclave and two people in Israel, one of them Palestinian.
On the operation in Jenin, which involved troops on the ground and airstrikes with dronesthe Army confirmed last night that “some of its troops were leaving the camp”, a historic stronghold of the Palestinian militia movement where the Jenin Brigade now operates – which brings together militias from all factions – and “main focus of terrorism” in the West Bank , according to Israel.
However, as Israeli troops began their withdrawal, which is still ongoing, there were sporadic clashes with militants and the army spokesman, Daniel Hagariaffirmed that the operation will not be considered finished until all its troops have left the Jenin field and remain on alert.
As the troops were leaving the camp, an Israeli soldier, a non-commissioned officer in the elite Egoz commando, was shot dead as he was securing the withdrawal.
During the early morning, some residents of the Jenin refugee camp began to return to their homes after some 3.000 were evacuated during the operational to flee from the violence that has plagued the camp, especially in the last year.
After having started the withdrawalthe Army confirmed an air strike against armed Palestinians stationed in a cemetery on the outskirts of the Jenin camp, who “posed a threat to the security forces as they left the camp.” refugee camp».
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its highest peak of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05) and this 2023, 156 Palestinians have already died in the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most of them militants in armed clashes with Israeli troops and attackers, but also civilians, included 27 minors.
In parallel, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groups, which carry out more and more attacks and have left 26 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, five of them minors, and one soldier.
