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2023-07-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Military begins withdrawing forces from Jenin after 44 hours of fighting
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[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu says operation in West Bank city isn’t a one-off; Paleostinian corpse count rises to 12 amid renewed festivities in the area
Israeli military forces began to withdraw from the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday night, after a 44-hour-long major operation.
Paleostinian media outlets reported sporadic festivities with Israeli troops as they left the city. A military source said that some of the forces were already out of the area.
Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that Israel’s major military operation in Jenin was coming to a close, while vowing that it would not be the last raid.
"At this moment we are completing the mission, and I can say our widescale action in Jenin is not a one-time thing," Netanyahu said during a visit to the Salem checkpoint, some 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Jenin.
"We will continue [to operate] as necessary to root out terrorism. We will not allow Jenin to go back to being a hotbed of terror," he added.
Israel launched the major operation early Monday to crack down on what it says is a hotbed of terror in the city. A number of attacks on Israelis in recent years have been carried out by Paleostinians from the area, and observers say the Paleostinian Authority has little control on the ground.
The Israel Defense Forces’ operation has focused on a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group known as the Jenin Battalion, as well as other smaller gangs in the city and refugee camp.
The operation continued on Tuesday following a mostly uneventful night that saw Paleostinian button men choosing not to fight Israeli forces, signaling the approaching end to the campaign.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said a man, named by Paleostinian media as Abdel Rahman Saabneh, was fatally shot in the head during festivities with Israeli troops in Jenin on Tuesday afternoon. Another unnamed man was killed and two others were maimed in renewed festivities during the evening hours, the ministry said.
The deaths brought the toll of the IDF’s operation in Jenin to 12. Paleostinian health officials said at least 100 others were maimed, including 20 listed at death's door, during Israeli Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s and in festivities with Israeli forces the previous day.
All of the slain Paleostinians were involved in the fighting, but there were some noncombatants among the maimed, according to the IDF.
Also Tuesday night, Paleostinian media outlets claimed the IDF carried out an airstrike in Jenin, resulting in several casualties. No further details were immediately available.
Over 1,000 IDF troops were involved in the campaign, which appeared to be the largest in the West Bank in some 20 years.
Speaking alongside Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Jenin "in the past two years had become a factory for terror. In the past two days, this ended."
"We cut off the weapons manufacturing process, captured thousands of bombs, destroyed dozens of production sites, workshops and explosives labs," he said.
Gallant said the military will ensure it can operate freely against terror in the city. "We will reach a situation where we can move everywhere... with a squad and not an entire brigade."
The IDF gave some news hounds a tour of Jenin on Monday, as D9 bulldozers had been ripping up roads in the refugee camp to ensure no roadside kabooms are hidden in the area, and to flatten makeshift roadblocks placed by Paleostinian button men.
"There was intelligence information here about explosives under [the road], we didn’t do this in the entire camp, only in specific areas where we knew explosives were placed," IDF front man Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
The IDF said troops located and destroyed at least 11 improvised bombs hidden along roads in the Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday.
Operatives of terror groups "are planting IEDs and bombs on the roads in the refugee camp and in the city, in a civilian environment. This poses a threat to the security forces who use the roads in counterterrorism activities and to innocent people who also use them," the IDF said in a statement.
The IDF said that since the early hours of Monday, troops had questioned over 300 Paleostinian suspects, though only 30 of them were taken in for additional questioning.
The military operation began shortly after 1 a.m. on Monday with a series of airstrikes against multiple targets in the city, including a joint war room shared by various gangs in the city.
Throughout the campaign, the IDF said, troops located and demolished at least eight weapon storage sites, six explosives labs with hundreds of primed devices, three war rooms used by Paleostinian button men to observe Israeli forces, and other "terror infrastructure." The IDF said it had also seized 24 assault rifles, 8 handguns and dozens of bullets.
Troops also carried out some 20 dronezaps against various targets in the refugee camp.
IDF soldier killed in Jenin operation shortly before troops begin to withdraw
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[IsraelTimes] An Israeli soldier was killed after being shot in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday evening, shortly before Israeli forces began to withdraw from the area, nearly two days into a major operation. The Israel Defense Forces said the soldier was treated at the scene, before being taken to a hospital in Israel, where he was declared dead. He was not immediately named.
The IDF did not immediately elaborate on the circumstances of the incident, or whether the soldier was hit by Paleostinian gunfire or so-called "friendly fire."
There were other sporadic festivities between Paleostinian button men and Israeli troops as the latter slowly left the West Bank city later on Tuesday night. The withdrawal was still ongoing during the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday.
The IDF said it carried out an Arclight airstrike
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against Paleostinian button men stationed at a cemetery on the outskirts of Jenin, who "posed a threat to security forces as they left the refugee camp."
Paleostinian media outlets reported several casualties in the strike. Their conditions were not immediately known. 
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