At least 9 killed as Israel launches major raid on occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera
Israel deploys hundreds of soldiers and air force in attack that its media described as biggest since 2002.
At least nine people have been killed, according to Palestinian health officials and media, after Israel launched a large-scale ground and air attack on the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The director of the ambulance department at the Palestine Red Crescent Society told Al Jazeera that four people were killed in an Israeli attack early on Wednesday on the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas. Several other people were injured, but the Red Crescent said their teams were having trouble reaching them because Israeli forces were preventing ambulances from entering the area.
Two people were also killed in an Israeli attack on Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, while three others were killed when an Israeli drone struck their vehicle in the nearby village of Seir.
Official Israeli radio said the military attack involved hundreds of soldiers as well as the air force in the biggest operation in the occupied West Bank since 2002, while Channel 14 said it had been planned for weeks.
Omar Baddar, a Middle East political analyst, said that it appeared to be part of a longer-term Israeli strategy to “ethnically cleanse” the Palestinian territory.
