Tel Aviv: Israel claims the mission was in response to rockets fired from the area when it launched airstrikes on an alleged "military site" in the Gaza Strip.

Militant organizations vowed to retaliate after Palestinian authorities alleged "massacres" in the occupied West Bank.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made public the attacks on Friday morning, which it claimed were directed at an "underground" facility that made rockets for Hamas, the political and armed group that has controlled Gaza since 2007.

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The military said the attacks caused "significant damage to Hamas fortifications and weaponry" and that they were carried out in retaliation for rockets launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip tonight, which were intercepted by air defense fighters. Had gone.

According to the IDF, at least five rockets were fired at Israel during the night; Three of them were intercepted, one landed in a public place, and the other missed its target inside Gaza. In settlements bordering the Palestinian enclaves, including the city of Ashkelon north of Gaza, the launches set off air raid sirens.

The rocket barrage followed a raid by Israeli special forces on a refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday. According to the Palestinian Authority, the raid ended in a shootout with the militants, and nine Palestinians, including a 61-year-old woman, were killed.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed the operation was against an Islamic Jihad terrorist group operating in Jenin and shared videos showing gunmen firing rifles and throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.

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The operation was criticized as "genocide" and the Palestinian Authority, which has limited control over the occupied West Bank, said it would halt all security cooperation with Israel.

Nabil Abu Rudineh, deputy prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, said that "security coordination with the occupation government does not yet exist."

He said the decision was made "in light of the repeated aggression against our people, and the undermining of signed agreements, in the context of commitments from the Oslo Peace Process in the 1990s."

Following the raid on the refugee camp, Jenin residents can be seen rummaging through the rubble and burnt-out buildings in video clips being distributed by local media. According to the Associated Press, the attack was the deadliest raid in the West Bank.

Following the Israeli operation, Hamas vowed that its response "would not be delayed", while Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan accused the IDF troops of carrying out "territorial executions" and vowed that "the Palestinian resistance would do everything in its power". Will do" to protect our people. ,

The last significant outbreak of violence in Gaza occurred in May 2021 as a result of an Israeli raid on the revered Muslim shrine Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

IDF warplanes bombarded the Palestinian territory for more than two weeks, while militants fired countless rockets, killing hundreds of people in Gaza and more than a dozen in Israel.

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Even though the IDF left Gaza in 2005, the Israeli government continues to occupy the West Bank and maintains a tight blockade of the region, increasing tensions.