Israel killed senior Palestinian resistance fighter in Jenin: army

Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP

The Israeli military has claimed that it killed a senior Palestinian resistance fighter during an air strike on an “operations centre” in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

“A number of significant terrorists were inside the compound,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement posted to Telegram.

It said the strike by a fighter jet and a helicopter killed Islam Khamayseh, a “senior terrorist operative in the Jenin Camp” who was responsible for a series of attacks in the area.

The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, confirmed in a statement that Khamayseh was killed and several others wounded during an Israeli raid.

It said Khamayseh was a leader of the Jenin Battalion, which is affiliated with Islamic Jihad.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said one person was killed and eight were wounded and receiving hospital treatment as a result of Israel’s operation in Jenin on Friday night.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and its troops routinely carry out incursions into areas such as Jenin, which are nominally under the Palestinian Authority’s security control.

The West Bank has seen a recent surge in violence at the hands of the occupation, particularly since the launch of the Israeli assault on Gaza on October 7.

More than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers across the West Bank since October 7, and several more put under arbitrary arrest.

Israel’s genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed at least 35,303 people, most of them civilians.