Israelis unleash deadly assault on West Bank
The Israeli military conducted a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, killing at least nine people in a string of fierce gunbattles across Jenin and other major cities as tensions heightened in the war that already has laid to waste most of Gaza.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday called on Israel to consider temporarily relocating Palestinians in Jenin and elsewhere during a major anti-terror raid. The Israeli military said it is allowing residents who wish to flee the combat zones to safely leave.
Katz said the military was "working intensively" in the Jenin and Tulkarm refugee camps to crush Iran-backed terrorist infrastructures. He accused Iran of trying to establish an eastern terrorist front against Israel in the West Bank "according to the Gaza and Lebanon model," by financing terrorists and smuggling weapons from Jordan.
