About 3,000 Palestinians have left the Jenin refugee camp following an Israeli operation in the occupied northern West Bank, a Palestinian official said, quoted by AFP.

“About 3,000 people have already left the camp,” Jenin city deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Roub told AFP, stressing that arrangements were being made to accommodate them in schools and other facilities in Jenin city.

At least eight Palestinians were killed and 50 wounded, 10 of them seriously, in an attack in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, during a large-scale operation by the Israeli army that mobilized hundreds or thousands of soldiers and used drones, AFP reported. .

After launching at least 10 drone strikes on buildings, a brigade of Israeli forces — believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 soldiers — backed by armored bulldozers and rooftop snipers entered the city and its refugee camp, meeting gunfire from Palestinians after Israel informed White. House of its plans, reports The Guardian.

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