PA accuses the international community of “shameful silence” regarding Israeli counter-terror oparation
Headline: “Presidency: Israeli army assault on Jenin is another war crime and will not bring stability or security”
“The Palestinian Presidency said today that the Israeli army assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin is another war crime and that it will not bring security and stability to the region.
The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said in a statement that ‘what the Israeli occupation government is doing in the city of Jenin and its camp is a new war crime against our defenseless people.’
He stressed that the Palestinian people will not surrender or raise the white flag, but ‘will remain steadfast on their land in the face of this brutal aggression until the occupation is defeated and freedom is achieved.’
Abu Rudeineh stressed that ‘all these crimes committed by the occupation government and its terrorist settlers will not achieve security and stability for them unless our Palestinian people also feel them.’
He called on the international community ‘to break its shameful silence and take serious action to compel Israel to stop its aggression against our Palestinian people, and to hold it accountable for all these crimes.’”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, English edition, July 3, 2023]
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested. During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.