On video: documentation of an exchange of fire between the IDF and terrorists in Jenin (from social networks)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold security discussions following the violent clashes in Jenin - this is what his office announced this morning (Thursday).
According to a joint announcement by the security agencies, three terrorists were killed by security force fire in an operation aimed at arresting Islamic Jihad members suspected of shooting at soldiers "and planning other significant attacks".
According to medical officials in Jenin, eight Palestinians were killed in the clashes, including a 60-year-old woman, and several others were injured, some seriously.
Regarding the civilian who was injured, the IDF said that "an allegation of injury to a Palestinian civilian is known, the circumstances of the case are under investigation."
According to the reports, the confrontation began after IDF soldiers entered the refugee camp under the guise of a commercial truck for dairy products, unloaded it, and deployed together with forces many who arrived at the scene.
The forces positioned themselves near the house of a wanted man who barricaded himself in it - and there began an exchange of fire between the parties.
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According to reports, IDF forces unloaded from a truck. The truck in Jenin this morning (photo: screenshot, social networks)
"During the activity of the fighters to surround the building where the wanted persons were, two armed wanted persons were identified who fled from the building. The forces shot at them and neutralized them," reads the joint statement to the security forces.
"One of the wanted persons who was in the building turned himself in to the forces on the spot. Also, engineering forces entered the building to detonate two explosives that were used by the wanted persons. There was a fourth armed wanted person on the spot who was also neutralized by the fighters."
During the attempted arrest, shots were fired at the forces who returned fire at the armed men.
"Injuries to a number of armed men have been identified, claims of additional deaths as a result of the exchange of fire are being investigated and there are no casualties to our forces," it said.
"Israel bears responsibility for the consequences"
The office of the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen, said in response to
the raid on Jenin that it was a "planned crime and a massacre", and that it calls on the international community to intervene.
In Jenin he will not be arrested, "all options are open.
Israel bears responsibility for the consequences." At the same time, the IDF raised the level of vigilance in the "Iron Dome" batteries in preparation for a possible rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
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