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Rabat – A Moroccan official has come forward to condemn Israel’s latest attacks on the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp located in the northern West Bank. The deadly raid claimed the lives of at least 10 Palestinians, including an elderly woman, and left dozens injured.
The Moroccan official warned that tension and hostility would increase between the Palestinian and Israeli sides if these “unacceptable practices” persist.
In addition, he emphasized that the expanding violence would hinder efforts seeking to revive the political process of putting the two-state solution into effect.
Israeli troops stormed Jenin city on Thursday in what American newspaper the Washington Post described as “one of the deadliest operations in nearly two decades.”
The Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, prompting the Palestinian leadership, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, to “immediately end security coordination with Israel.”
Describing the Israeli raid as a “massacre,” WAFA added that Israeli troops stormed the Jenin Hospital and demolished facilities in the Jenin camp, causing serious property damage.
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The death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces has exceeded 30 casualties so far this year, WAFA indicated.
In a statement on Twitter, Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF) described the raid, which they have conducted alongside Israeli security forces, as a “counterterrorism operation” in an attempt to arrest an “Islamic Jihad terror squad in the Jenin Camp.”
“The terrorists were heavily involved in planning & executing multiple major terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians & soldiers,” IDF added.
The escalating tensions came weeks after the Israeli parliament swore in Benjamin Netanyahu as the country’s new prime minister.
The inauguration of Israel’s new government saw rising tensions between Israel and Palestine, including the country’s new National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in what many described as a “major provocation.”
