Ten people were killed and more than 40 others were injured, including at least one doctor and one nurse, as a result of the Israeli occupation army’s aggression on Jenin on Tuesday, where it announced the start of a military operation there, which it called “Iron Wall,” in reference to the invasion of the West Bank in 2002, and which it called “Defensive Wall.”

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of Mahmoud Ibrahim Jaradat (29 years old) in the town of Ta’nek, Jenin District, while the other nine martyrs are: Khalil Tariq al-Sa’di (35 years old), Khalaf Ahmed Jamhawi (26 years old), Hussein Abdel Moneim Abu al-Haija (38 years old), Yousef Khalil Abu Awad (42 years old), Moataz Imad Abu Tabikh (16 years old), Ahmed Nimer al-Shaib (43 years old), Amin Salah al-Asmar (57 years old), Raed Hussein Abu al-Saba’ (53 years old), and Abdel Wahhab Ahmed al-Sa’di (53 years old).

The occupation's Apache fighter planes flew over the city and the camp, in addition to drones that fired at the residents and their homes, while the Israeli army brought armored vehicles towards Jenin.

At first, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that "a dead arrived at Jenin Governmental Hospital, following the occupation's bombing of Jenin"; later confirming that the number of victims of the aggression had risen to 10 martyrs and more than 40 wounded.

This comes as terrorist settlers burned homes, vehicles and shops in an attack they launched on Monday evening on the towns of Al-Funduq and Jinsafut, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, which resulted in 21 people being injured with varying degrees of severity, while two injuries were recorded among the occupation forces during the terrorist attack on the hotel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "Under the direction of the cabinet, the Israeli army, the General Security Service (Shabak), and the Israel Police today launched a large-scale and important military operation to eliminate terrorism in Jenin," as he described it, considering that "this is another step towards achieving the goal we set, which is to strengthen security in the West Bank."

Netanyahu continued, "We are moving systematically and decisively against the Iranian axis, wherever it sends its weapons: in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and the West Bank."

In contrast, Israeli Security Minister Yisrael Katz announced during a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee that the military operation in Jenin aims to protect the settlements and settlers, and he considered that "the threat to the settlements, settlements and settlers in Judea and Samaria and on the contact line is becoming increasingly dangerous."

Local sources reported that "Israeli special forces stormed the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank"; noting that the Israeli army brought "military reinforcements from the Jalameh checkpoint towards Jenin, coinciding with the storming of the camp by special forces."