Operation killing Islamic Jihad commander in occupied West Bank ‘largest since months’

Earlier Middle East Eye reported that the Israeli army says it killed five Palestinian gunmen in a mosque in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp, including the commander of the Tulkarm Battalion, Mohamed Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a.

The operation, which raided the cities of Tulkarm and Jenin, began in the early hours of Wednesday with hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel and was one of the largest assaults on the occupied West Bank since months.

On Wednesday the EU’s chif diplomat Josep Borrell criticised the assault: “The Israeli major military operation in the occupied West Bank must not constitute the premises of a war extension from Gaza, including full-scale destruction.”