JENIN, Palestine — The
Palestinian health ministry said that at least one Palestinian man was killed by Israeli
gunfire during a raid in the West Bank district of Jenin, on Saturday.
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The Red Crescent said 12 others were
wounded.
The operation, which lasted several hours,
came after a gunman from Jenin carried out a shooting in Tel Aviv on Thursday
evening, killing three Israelis and wounding more than a dozen others.
Israeli forces had launched the operation in
the city of Jenin, in the north of the occupied
West Bank, its Palestinian
refugee camp, and adjacent villages.
Following the attack, Israeli Prime Minister
Naftali Bennett gave security agencies "full freedom" to end deadly
violence that has surged since March 22 "in order to defeat terror".
"There are not and will not be limits
for this war," Bennett.
Crowds of mourners marched through the streets
carrying the body of 25-year-old Ahmad Al-Saadi — who was identified by
Palestinian officials — on a stretcher covered with the flag of the Gaza
Strip-based militant group Islamic Jihad.
Palestinian security sources said part of
Saturday's raid was to identify the home of the Tel Aviv assailant ahead of
demolishing it.
Rights activists have repeatedly denounced
Israel's policy of destroying the homes of
Palestinian attackers as collective
punishment.
The Jenin refugee camp is a stronghold of
armed factions, where three other Palestinians linked to an anti-Israeli attack
were killed by the army last week.
Saturday's raid comes a day after Israel
said it had killed Raad Hazem, 28, the alleged Tel Aviv attacker.
In addition to giving
security forces a free
rein to curb a surge in violence, Bennett on Friday ordered the closure of the
Jalameh checkpoint between the Jenin area and Israel.
On Friday, the father of the Tel Aviv
attacker, Fathi Hazem — a retired Palestinian security forces officer according
to Palestinian sources — struck a defiant tone.
Speaking to hundreds at the family home in
Jenin, he said the Palestinian people were looking for "freedom and
independence".
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