The latest victim brings this week’s death toll in the West Bank to 11.
Hamas says Palestinian who carried out a car ramming and stabbing attack in Tel aviv wounding seven people was one of its members, adding he acted in response to Israel’s actions in Jenin.
UN agencies have raised concerns over the scale of Israel’s assault, adding that first aid responders are being prevented from reaching critically injured people.\
The Palestinian Red Crescent said it has evacuated about 3,000 people from the Jenin camp, where some 14,000 people live in an area of less than half a square kilometre.
Israeli forces killed total eleven palestinians in a day in Ramallah and Jenin when forces launch air attacks and ground raids carried out by hundreds of soldiers, killing at least eight Palestinians in the largest military operation in Jenin in 20 years.
A ninth Palestinian is shot dead by Israeli soldiers near Ramallah.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society urgently calls for “safe passage to evacuate the wounded and injured”.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen signals Israel is not intending to expand its operation in Jenin to the rest of the occupied West Bank.
International medical charity Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has called for health workers to be “assured of unhindered access” to those in need of medical care in Jenin amid the Israeli military’s largest raid on the city’s refugee camp in more than 20 years.
According to the organisation, all roads leading to Jenin refugee camp have been blocked by Israeli forces “for the duration of the military operation despite the presence of patients in need of care inside the refugee camp”.
“Beyond killing and injuring people, this military operation has also affected health structures and obstructed the medical response to the emergency,” the organisation said in a statement.
Israeli “military bulldozers destroyed multiple roads leading to the Jenin refugee camp, making it nearly impossible for ambulances to reach patients,” MSF said.
“Additionally, Palestinian paramedics have been forced to proceed on foot to reach people in need of desperate medical treatment in an area with active gunfire and drone strikes,” it added.
The Palestinian mission to the United Nation has asked the international community if it is not “duty-bound” to act when a civilian population – which is already under occupation – is attacked with “absolute disregard for human life” by a foreign force “armed to the teeth” and in flagrant breach of international law.
“Is it not clear for all the world to see that Israel’s terrorism and aggression against the Palestinian people is escalating and becoming ever more brutal, invasive and hateful as it becomes ever more emboldened by the inaction of the international community,” the mission said in a statement amid the Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military operation against the Jenin refugee camp is the largest since the 2000-2005 Second Intifada – or mass Palestinian uprising against Israel’s decades-long occupation.
At least eight Palestinians have been killed so far in Jenin, including two children. Israeli forces also shot a ninth Palestinian dead near Ramallah.
A city in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jenin houses a crowded refugee camp by the same name with a population of some 14,000 people.
Residents of the Jenin camp are descendants of Palestinians dispossessed of their land and homes when the state of Israel was created in 1948.
Jenin has one of the highest rates of unemployment and poverty among 19 refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
In 2002, Israel launched a major assault on the Jenin refugee camp, which was the scene of some of the worst violence during the Second Intifada.
A UN report issued in August 2002, said 52 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, with as many as half being civilians.
Israel lost 23 soldiers in Jenin.
The report listed more Israeli than Palestinian abuses, especially Israel’s refusal to let humanitarian workers enter the camp. But it also said Palestinian fighters were located in civilian homes.
More than 400 homes were destroyed during the Israeli assault and more than a quarter of the population was left homeless, according to UNRWA, which coordinated and implemented the reconstruction of the camp.
