Reports of Israeli military withdrawal from Jenin

Local Palestinian media is reporting that Israeli forces have ended their siege of Jenin city and its refugee camp. The Wafa news agency reported earlier that Israeli soldiers had pulled out from the vicinity of the Jenin Governmental Hospital and the city’s Ibn Sina Hospital where they had been stationed since the large-scale incursion of the occupied West Bank began on August 28. Local sources in Jenin have told Palestinian media that the Israelis have withdrawn completely, posting photos on social media of the destruction left after the nine-day siege of the city and refugee camp. The military raid constitutes Israel’s largest assault on the occupied territory since the second Intifada in the early 2000s with at least 39 Palestinians killed and wounded 130 so far. 36m ago (01:45 GMT) Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza City, Rafah, central refugee camps Along with the two recent early morning Israeli attacks in Gaza City that have killed at least nine people and wounded 10, the Wafa news agency reports that the bodies of six people have been recovered from under the rubble in several areas of southern Rafah city. In central Gaza, the bombing of a residential house in the Maghazi refugee camp killed one person, and an attack on the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp killed another Palestinian and left several injured. 51m ago (01:30 GMT) Houthi At least 9 killed in two Israeli bombings in Gaza City Three Palestinians have been reported killed and five injured in an early morning Israeli attack on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, reports. Six people were killed and five wounded in an earlier Israeli bombing in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Wafa added. We will bring you more on these attacks as information emerges.

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