After a 10-day assault on Jenin, the Israeli Military has withdrawn from West Bank, according to Palestinian new agency Wafa.
For more than a week, the Israeli military carried out a massive offensive across the occupied West Bank, the broadest since it began its war on Gaza. The focus of the operation has been Jenin, a city that houses more than 50,000 refugees.
The fighting in Jenin alone has resulted in the death of more than 39 Palestinians and injured 140 across the West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities. Israel claims that most of the dead have been militants. However, one of the dead is confirmed to have been an unarmed 16-year-old girl. One Israeli soldier was also killed
The offensive is the largest assault on the occupied west bank since the second intifada (uprising) in the early 2000s, which left several dozen Palestinians killed.
While simultaneously engaging in a devastating war on Gaza, the Israeli forces have made it nearly impossible for Palestinians in the occupied territories to secure basic needs, including food, water and electricity. Israeli forces also barred access to hospitals on August 29, while ordering troops to surround other medical facilities.
On Monday, the Israeli forces continued to violently expel Palestinian families from their homes, including residents of the Abdullah Azzam neighborhood in the Jenin refugee camp, north of the city.
The Jenin municipality reported widespread destruction of property in the occupied territories following the raid. The Israeli army bulldozed nearly 70 percent of the city’s streets, destroying 20 kilometers of its water and sewage network, and leaving more than 80 percent of the Jenin refugee camps without water access, according to its own figures.
Israel’s full on assault on the West Bank left widespread destruction and injuries. Civil defense units have been deployed in Jenin for road clearance and street rehabilitation to deal with the aftermath of the 10-day act of aggression, according to Wafa.