Jenin: Security officials reported that the Israeli military started removing its personnel from a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, capping a bloody two-day operation that claimed the lives of at least 13 Palestinians and forced thousands of others to flee their homes while also causing extensive property damage. A single Israeli soldier died.

However, fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian insurgents persisted in some areas of the Jenin refugee camp, delaying the anticipated withdrawal.
Residents of the Jenin refugee camp reported that the army had left the area just after midnight. The army provided only the information that a soldier had been killed during the fighting.

The army reported that terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired five rockets into Israel, heightening tensions. Even though all of the rockets were reportedly shot down, Israel now faces the possibility of fighting on two fronts.

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The news broke hours after a militant from Hamas rammed his car into a crowded bus stop in Tel Aviv and started stabbing people, injuring eight people in total, including a pregnant woman who reportedly lost her unborn child. An armed bystander shot and killed the assailant. According to Hamas, the assault was retaliation for the Israeli offensive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation, one of the most intense in the region in close to two decades, was nearing its conclusion while visiting a military post outside Jenin. He did, however, promise to perform similar operations in the future.

The mission is currently being completed, and he asserted that the extensive operation in Jenin was not an isolated incident.

A militant cell concealed in a cemetery was the target of an airstrike, according to the Israeli military, which was conducted late on Tuesday. According to the report, the shooters threatened troops leaving the camp. On casualties, there was no immediate word.

Late on Tuesday, fighting was also reported by Israeli and Palestinian officials near a hospital in Jenin. On the ground, an Associated Press reporter could hear gunfire and explosions. Three civilians were hit by Israeli fire, Palestinian hospital officials told the government-run Wafa news agency.

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An Israeli security official confirmed that the troops had started to depart, but added that the fighting had made the withdrawal more difficult. He spoke anonymously until a formal announcement was made.

Israel launched an attack on the camp, which is known as a stronghold for Palestinian militants, early on Monday in an effort, according to Israel, to destroy and seize weapons. According to Palestinian health officials, 13 Palestinians were killed and numerous others were injured.

Thousands of camp residents fled as large military bulldozers tore through alleyways, severely damaging the roads and structures. People reported that the water and electricity were cut off. According to the army, roads were booby-trapped with explosives, necessitating the use of bulldozers.

The military claimed to have seized large amounts of cash, bomb-making supplies, and thousands of weapons. The military reported that weapons were discovered in both civilian and militant locations, including once beneath a mosque.

The massive raid coincides with a more than a year-long uptick in violence that has posed a problem for Netanyahu's far-right government, which is predominated by ultranationalists and has called for tougher action against Palestinian militants only to see the fighting get worse.

In the West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have died this year; at least 25 Israelis have also died as a result of Palestinian attacks, including four settlers who were shot last month.

Humanitarian organisations have warned of a worsening situation as a result of the ongoing operation.

The army, according to Doctors Without Borders, allegedly used tear gas on a hospital, filling the emergency room with smoke and forcing patients to receive treatment in the main hall.

The size of the operation, according to the office of the U.N.'s human rights chief, "raises a host of serious issues with respect to international human rights norms and standards, including protecting and respecting the right to life."
The raid displayed characteristics of Israeli military strategies used during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, including airstrikes and a sizable ground troop presence.

There are, however, some distinctions. Israeli military operations are concentrated on a number of Palestinian militant strongholds, giving it a more constrained reach.
Hardline settler leader and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sped to the scene of the Tel Aviv attack on Tuesday.

Ben-Gvir stated, "We were aware that terror would rear its ugly head. He was heckled by an irate bystander as he praised the person who killed the attacker and advocated arming more citizens. A 20-year-old Palestinian man from Hebron in the southern West Bank was identified as the assailant.

He was hailed as a "martyr fighter" by the Islamic terrorist organisation Hamas, who also dubbed the ramming "heroic and retaliation for the military operation in Jenin." An active militant group in Jenin is called Islamic Jihad.

It wasn't immediately obvious whether the man was sent by Hamas or acted independently.

In Jenin, which has long been a focal point of Israeli-Palestinian violence, debris covered the streets and columns of black smoke occasionally rose above the camp's skyline.

Nearly 4,000 Palestinians, or about one-third of the camp, left to stay with family or in shelters, according to Jenin Mayor Nidal Al-Obeidi.
A resident of a camp named Kefah Ja'ayyasah claimed that soldiers broke into her house and imprisoned her family inside.

"They took the young men of my family to the upper floor, but they left the women and children trapped in the apartment at the first floor," she claimed.
She claimed that after yelling for help, soldiers barred an ambulance crew from entering the house and would not let her feed the kids before eventually allowing the family to travel to a hospital.

Palestinians staged a general strike throughout the West Bank to denounce the Israeli raid.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 13 Palestinians have died in the past two days. At least ten of them, according to the Israeli military, were militants, but no further information was given. On the most recent deaths, there was no immediate information.

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Israel's incursion has been denounced by the Palestinian self-rule government in the West Bank, three Arab nations with normalised relations with Israel, including Jordan, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as by Saudi Arabia and the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

In response to a string of deadly Palestinian attacks in early 2022, Israel has been conducting almost daily raids in the West Bank. According to the report, the raids are intended to take out Palestinian militants and prevent attacks. According to the Palestinians, this violence is an inevitable byproduct of Israel's 56-year occupation and the lack of any kind of political process with the Palestinians. They also highlight the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and extremist settlers' violent behaviour.

Israel claims that while most of those killed were militants, there were also deaths among youths throwing stones in protest of the incursions and individuals who were not involved in any altercations.

In the 1967 Middle East conflict, Israel seized control of the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians are looking for those areas for their future independent state.