After the incident, hundreds of Israelis attacked homes and cars in the Palestinian city of Turmusaya. A Palestinian was shot dead during the fighting.
A week later, three Palestinian soldiers from Jenin were killed by an Israeli drone after they allegedly opened fire on a postal center near the city.
This latest attack is considered one of Israel’s largest military operations in the West Bank in recent years.
Hundreds of soldiers, supported by combat drones and armored bulldozers, are participating in what the Israeli government calls a “broad counterterrorism effort.”
They claim they are trying to stop making Jenin a “terrorist safe haven”.
However, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the operation was “the latest attempt to destroy the camp and evacuate its residents”.
This camp is home to the Jenin Brigade.
The camp houses a concentration of fighters from various Palestinian militant groups, including Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Brigade al-Quds.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), at least 420 armed soldiers are in the camp.
They operate on the ground and say they are part of the “fight” against Israel.
There is a new generation of Palestinian fighters in Jenin, says BBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams.
“These armed youths have never known the peace process,” he said. “You have no prospect of a diplomatic solution to the conflict.”
“They are really unsure of their own political leadership. That’s why they fight the [Israeli] occupation with their way of thinking.”
The Jenin camp was established in 1953 for Palestinians displaced by the 1948-49 war between Israeli and Arab forces when the new State of Israel was established.
At that time, the West Bank was still under Jordan. The area included refugees from the Jenin camp from Haifa, Nazareth and the surrounding areas that are now part of modern Israel.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Jenin and the entire West Bank came under Israeli control and more refugees came to the Jenin camp.
The camp is one of 19 other refugee camps in the West Bank and is home to 200,000 people.
