Jenin: Israeli forces start withdrawal after two-day operation

Israeli forces person started withdrawing from Jenin exile campy successful the occupied West Bank, a defence root says, ending a large two-day cognition successful which 12 Palestinians person been killed.

Gunfire and explosions continued to beryllium heard crossed Jenin arsenic the quality emerged.

Health officials said 1 Palestinian antheral was changeable dead, portion an aerial onslaught reportedly injured 3 others.

Earlier, Palestinian militant groups said a car-ramming and stabbing onslaught successful Israel was a effect to the raid.

Israeli authorities said 7 radical were injured connected a engaged buying thoroughfare successful Tel Aviv and that the attacker was a Palestinian antheral from the West Bank.

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: "Whoever thinks that specified an onslaught volition deter america from continuing our combat against coercion is mistaken."

He besides confirmed that Israeli forces were "completing the mission" successful Jenin, but warned that it would not beryllium a "one-time action".

Palestinian leaders accused Israel of mounting an "invasion".

The Israeli subject launched its cognition successful Jenin exile campy aboriginal connected Monday with a drone onslaught that it said targeted a associated bid centre of the Jenin Brigades - a portion made up of antithetic militant groups, including Hamas.

Drones carried retired further aerial strikes arsenic hundreds of troops entered the campy and engaged successful aggravated weapon battles with equipped Palestinians wrong the camp.

The subject said the "counter-terrorism operation" was focused connected seizing weapons and "breaking the harmless haven mindset of the camp".

At a quality league successful Geneva connected Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian bureau said it was "alarmed astatine the standard of aerial and crushed operations that are taking spot successful Jenin and continuing contiguous successful the West Bank, and particularly [the] aerial strikes hitting a densely populated exile camp".

She said the Palestinian wellness ministry had confirmed that 3 children - 2 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old lad - were among those killed, and warned that harm to infrastructure meant astir of the campy present had nary drinking h2o oregon electricity.

The World Health Organization said Palestinian ambulance crews had been prevented from entering parts of the camp, including to scope radical who were critically injured. The wellness ministry has said much than 100 Palestinians person been injured, 20 of them critically.

A Palestinian Red Crescent authoritative said astir 3,000 Palestinians, including galore sick and elderly, were allowed overnight to fly the drone strikes and weapon battles betwixt Israeli troops and equipped Palestinians.

A antheral successful a wheelchair who was escorted retired of the campy with his household successful the greeting told the BBC that they had been held successful a country by Israeli troops.

"We were encircled by a subject barricade. Israeli soldiers came. Now we conscionable went out. There were nary radical near successful the camp. We were the lone ones."

He added: "It's been a precise hard situation. The drone was shooting astatine us. Now we've conscionable left. And we're each tired. We've had nary food... No drink."

Outside a infirmary successful the adjacent metropolis centre, Palestinians protesters threw stones astatine an Israeli subject vehicle, prompting it to occurrence teardrop state successful response.

Medical foundation Médecins Sans Frontières complained that paramedics had been forced to proceed connected ft due to the fact that Israeli subject bulldozers had destroyed galore roads, stripping them of tarmac.

In an interrogation with CNN connected Tuesday night, main subject spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that nary non-combatants had been killed during the operation.

He besides said helium had seen ambulances driving freely wrong the campy during the day, adding: "We are assisting those ambulances to evacuate the wounded."

The admiral said bulldozers had dug up astir 2km (1.2 miles) of roads wrong the campy on which militants had concealed explosive devices, putting civilians and troops astatine risk.

Jenin has go a stronghold of a caller procreation of Palestinian militants who person go profoundly frustrated by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority's aging enactment and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.

The metropolis has seen repeated Israeli subject raids successful the past twelvemonth arsenic section Palestinians person carried retired deadly attacks connected Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers person hidden there.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh rejected statements from overseas governments saying that Israel had the close to support itself.

"Israel is internationally recognised arsenic the occupying powerfulness implicit our onshore and people," helium tweeted. "[It] should beryllium condemned for its usage of unit to destruct the camp's infrastructure, facilities, and homes, and to kill, arrest, and displace guiltless people."

"It is the Palestinian radical that person the close to self-defence. There is nary specified close for an occupying power," helium added.