“Relatively Similar:” Israeli Minister Says Forces Applying Gaza Lessons in Occupied West Bank

Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that forces were applying lessons learned from Gaza as a deadly assault continued in Jenin for the fourth consecutive day, during which people were forcibly displaced, killed, mass arrested, and subjected to field executions.

On Tuesday, the Israeli military announced the launch of a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, amid forced displacement, mass arrests, reports of field executions by Israeli forces, and a siege on the Jenin refugee camp that has caused widespread destruction to infrastructure. The assault is now in its fourth day.

Katz said the Jenin assault marked a shift in the military’s security plan in the West Bank and was “the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza.”

The military has claimed it has refined its urban warfare tactics in light of its offensive in Gaza.

According to Reuters, a military spokesperson declined to give details but said the operation was “relatively similar” to but in a smaller area than one last August, in which hundreds of Israeli troops backed by drones and helicopters raided Jenin and other flashpoint cities in the occupied West Bank.

It was the third major incursion by the Israeli forces in less than two years into Jenin.

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