A Palestinian attacker is in Tel Aviv and is in serious condition

Israeli military raids in Jenin, a flashpoint for militant activity in the Palestinians since the end of the 2022 Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The raids are supposed to disrupt militant activities in the Palestinians. The Palestinians think that if there was no political process with Israel and more construction of settlements in the West Bank, violence would happen.

The Jenin refugee camp has an “unified command center” for the militant group that is used to coordinate and prepare for attacks, according to the military.

Israeli media reported that the military conducted airstrikes, reviving a tactic that had largely ceased over the past two decades.

More than 140 Palestinians have been killed this year in the West Bank, part of more than a yearlong spike in violence. Palestinian attacks on Israelis have killed at least 26 people.

Israel says most of the dead have been militants, but stone-throwing youths and people who aren’t involved in confrontations have also died.

In 1967, Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state.

The Palestinian self-rule government in the West Bank and three Arab countries that have normalized relations with Israel – Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – condemned the incursion.

A spokesman for the Israeli military, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Monday that Israel had launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin.

During Tuesday’s operations, the military said it seized weapons and explosives and demolished tunnels beneath a mosque in the refugee camp. Israeli media reported that the army had arrested at least 120 suspected Palestinian militants since Monday.

Jenin Mayor Nidal Al-Obeidi said that around 4,000 Palestinians had fled the Jenin refugee camp, finding accommodation in the homes of relatives and in shelters. Residents said there was no water or electricity in the camp.

In the morning there were reports of damage to shops in Jenin, as the streets were strewn with rubble. The camp has been a flashpoint since the start of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the spring of 2022, with columns of black smoke periodically covering the skyline. It was a hub for militant activity in the early 2000s.

The Hamas militant group praised Tuesday’s attack in Tel Aviv as “heroic and revenge for the military operation in Jenin” and later claimed the driver was a member, though it was not immediately clear if the attacker was dispatched by the group or acted on his own. Islamic Jihad, a militant group with a large presence in Jenin, also praised the assault.

But the current violence is also different from the intense years of what was known as the second intifada, a period that claimed thousands of lives. It’s more limited in scope, with Israeli military operations focused on several strongholds of Palestinian militants.

It bore hallmarks of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from his ultranationalist political allies for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four people.

The Jenin camp raid is one of the most serious military operations in the West Bank in almost two decades.

The attack came as Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a refugee camp, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety. The death toll from Palestine rose for the second day in a row.

In response to the ongoing Israeli military operation in the West Bank, a Palestinian man drove his car into a crowded bus stop in Tel Aviv and started stabbing people.