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| 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank | |||||||
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| Part of Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war | |||||||
 West Bank | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Israel |
 Palestinian militants | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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At least 18 Palestinians killed (including at least 12 militants) At least 22 wounded (including a disabled man) | ||||||
On 28 August 2024, Israel launched a counterterrorism operation in the northern occupied West Bank. It is Israel's largest military operation in the West Bank in more than 20 years since its Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, in a significant escalation of the continual Israeli incursions into the region against Palestinian militants during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.
Israel says that its goal is to stop Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank, whereas Palestinians worry that this could be an expansion of the war that aims to expel them out of their territories that they aim to establish a state on. Israel said the raids were aimed to thwart Palestinian suicide bombings, following a failed attempt in Tel Aviv. Israel's military operation occurs as Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians infrastructure and civilians in the West Bank has surged.
The IDF operation, conducted in areas such as Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas in the northern West Bank, has led to the dismantling of multiple explosive devices, weapons caches, and other terrorist infrastructure. Among the discoveries were an explosives lab and an operations room located inside a mosque. The operation has resulted in the deaths of several militants, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Tulkarm battalion, who was wanted by Israel for his involvement in terrorism, and the arrest of multiple wanted individuals.
Overview
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee announced a counterterrorism operation called "Summer Camps" in a joint statement with the Shin Bet. Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz stated that the operation was a "full-fledged war" focused on stamping out "terrorist infrastructures", accusing Iran of trying to establish an "eastern terrorist front" against Israel in the West Bank by funding and arming local militants. The Israeli operation came about following a failed suicide bombing in Tel Aviv by a Hamas operative, and calls by Hamas for the renewel of suicide attacks.
The military operation is focusing on the cities of Tulkarm and Jenin, with hundreds of troops from the IDF involved, as well as bulldozers and air support. Operations were also reported in al-Fara'a refugee camp, near Tubas. Entry points into Tulkarm and Jenin were blocked off by the IDF, which also encircled two hospitals in Tulkarm. More than 650 Palestinians in the West Bank, including gunmen and civilians were killed since the October 7 attack while 27 Israelis, including both civilians and security forces were killed in Palestinian attacks within Israel and the West Bank.
Israel says that its goal is to stop Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank, whereas Palestinians worry that this could be an expansion of the war that aims to expel them out of their territories that they aim to establish a state on.
During the operation, the IDF killed Muhammad Jabber, known as Abu Shujaa, who led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Tulkarm brigade, based in Nur Shams. He was wanted by Israel for his involvement in terrorist attacks.
Security forces also discovered and dismantled dozens of explosive devices and confiscated numerous other weapons. Fearing the imminent Israeli military operation, some PIJ militants in the Balata Camp have surrendered their weapons and turned themselves in to Palestinian Authority security forces.
Israel's military operation occurs as Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians infrastructure and civilians in the West Bank has surged.
Responses
UN secretary general António Guterres, called for Israel to end its operations in the West Bank. UN secretary general spokesman said Israel should “exercise maximum restraint and use lethal force only when it is strictly unavoidable to protect life.” The Israeli ambassador to the UN, responded by saying that Israel will not wait for suicide bombings, adding that bombs were being smuggled in by Iran. The United States called for Israel to protect civilians in the West Bank during its operations as well as recognized Israeli security reasoning for the operation.
In response, Hamas has called for Palestinians in the West Bank to rise up and blamed the escalation on United States support for Israel. It also called on the Palestinian Authority's security forces to join the fighting against Israel. The Palestinian Authority condemned the operation and called on the United States to intervene.
See also
References
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The Israeli military has claimed that its forces have killed 12 Palestinian fighters.
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The Israeli military said its forces killed the commander of the Tulkarem Battalion, Mohamed Jaber, also known as Abu Shuja'a, and four other Palestinian fighters in a firefight in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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The Palestinian Health Ministry says over 650 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the war. Most appear to have been militants killed in gunbattles during Israeli operations like the one this week, but civilian bystanders and rock-throwing protesters have also been killed, and the territory saw a surge of Jewish settler violence.
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In the first three weeks of August, according to UN figures, 128 Palestinians, including 26 children, were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank. A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, Ravina Shamdasani, said that the IDF operations risked "seriously deepening the already catastrophic situation", and that two of the dead were reportedly children, bringing the overall death toll in the West Bank since 7 October to 637.
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