The Palestinian health ministry, based in Ramallah, said the operation had killed eight people, just days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its first responders treated seven people injured by live ammunition and that Israeli forces were hindering their access to the area.

Palestinian Authority security forces exited the area following a month-long operation of its own against local Palestinian terror groups.

At least seven Palestinians were killed and 35 others injured in a massive raid by the Israeli army into Jenin, expected to last a few days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed the operation saying that it is intended to “eradicate terrorism” in the area

The war began on October 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a deadly incursion into southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and abducting 250 others. Currently, more than 90 hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, with a third feared dead.

Palestinian Authority security forces are struggling to win the trust of residents of Jenin as they try to assert control over the city, a historic centre of Islamist militancy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Four people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv in which the attacker was killed, Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said on Wednesday.

JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday (Jan 21), killing at least four Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation".

While a fragile new ceasefire in Gaza holds, Israel has launched a large operation in the occupied West Bank against Palestinians.

The Israeli army and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the launch of a large-scale counterterrorism operation in the city of Jenin located in Samaria on Tuesday

Truce comes after rupture said caused by IDF's resumption of airstrikes in area; members of battalion, affiliated with terror groups, to surrender arms to Ramallah after 6-week op