Israeli observers doubted that the military operation against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp in the northern West Bank had achieved all of its required objectives.

The Israeli army began at dawn yesterday (Monday) a large-scale military operation against the city and camp of Jenin, with an air attack.
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About 1,000 soldiers backed by helicopters and drones reported the killing of 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier.

Late yesterday evening (Tuesday), the Israeli army withdrew from Jenin camp after a military operation that lasted for 45 hours.

Separately, Israeli observers told Xinhua that the military operation on Jenin "did not achieve all its objectives."

The writer and political analyst, Zvi Barel, described the military operation on Jenin as a "show" operation, and came to serve the political goals of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is facing widespread popular pressure after resuming the push for judicial legislation aimed at limiting the role of the Supreme Court, in addition to his trial in corruption cases.

"The loss of political control by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resulted in a showy military operation," Bariel told Xinhua.

He added, "There is no one in the army, the Shin Bet (General Security) or even on the right who believes that such an operation will eliminate terrorism in the refugee camp in Jenin, or in Jenin, Nablus or East Jerusalem."

The Israeli army said that the operation came "to combat terrorism in the city of Jenin and its camp."

The Israeli media described the operation as the "biggest" since Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank in 2002.

The spokesman for the Israeli army, Daniel Hagari, told the Hebrew public radio that the intelligence information "was not sufficient to reach all the targets in the Jenin camp, and that many armed cells withdrew outside the camp."

Hagari added that the military operation in Jenin and its camp "is not the last that the army will carry out, and it may be forced to return if necessary."

The Israeli army spokesman described the operation as "complicated in a hostile environment," noting that during the operation, "300 Palestinians were arrested, 30 of whom are believed to be wanted within the objectives of the operation."

Hagari indicated that the main objective of the operation is "to prevent the Jenin camp from being converted into a haven for terrorists, in addition to destroying the military infrastructure, including laboratories for the manufacture of explosives and places for storing explosive devices."

"This is not a broad and meaningful military campaign," writer and political analyst Avi Issacharoff told Xinhua.

Issacharoff added, "The campaign may serve the political goals of Benjamin Netanyahu, but unfortunately, shortly after the Israeli army left the alleys of the camp (Jenin), the gunmen will return to it and resume operations from there."

The Jenin camp, which was established in 1953, is a hotbed of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Wall against the camp, killing 52 Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers, according to the United Nations.

An Israeli military spokesman told the Hebrew public radio yesterday (Tuesday) that the operation took place because about 50 attacks were launched from Jenin since last year.

According to United Nations estimates, between 15,000 and 20,000 people live in the Jenin refugee camp, which covers an area of ​​less than half a square kilometer.

Israel took control of the West Bank along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, and has maintained control over these lands that the Palestinians want to establish their future state on, despite international criticism.

Issacharoff said the images of Palestinian dead in Jenin could give Netanyahu a few more weeks or months of stability in his particularly unstable government, noting that since the beginning of Netanyahu's right-wing government we have seen a "dramatic rise in operations."

In conjunction with the military operation in Jenin, ten Israelis were injured, three of them seriously, in a run-over operation in the coastal city of Tel Aviv in central Israel, which was carried out by a Palestinian from Hebron on Tuesday.

More than 190 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bullets, while 25 people have been killed in Israel in attacks carried out by Palestinians since the beginning of this year.

Issacharoff said that the operation in Tel Aviv is just "another example" of the escalating pace of operations against Israelis since the Netanyahu government took over.

The Israeli writer and political analyst added, "The campaign in Jenin constitutes a palliative pill, at best, for a difficult, incurable disease. It may reduce the danger of the Jenin camp in terms of weapons, but it certainly will not lead to a real reduction in the number of attempted operations."