PA Foreign Ministry describes Israeli counter-terror operation as “barbaric aggression”
Headline: “Foreign Ministry calls for urgent international intervention to stop Israel’s aggression against Jenin”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned today what it described as ‘the barbaric aggression’ of the Israeli occupation army against the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp that so far left four Palestinians dead and more than 30 injured, many of them critically, calling for an urgent international intervention to stop the Israeli aggression.
The Foreign Ministry said in a press statement that this aggression is part of the official Israeli policy of using military force in dealing with the defenseless Palestinian people as an alternative to political solutions to the conflict, holding the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for its repercussions.
It called for urgent international action to immediately stop the aggression, urging the International Criminal Court to break its silence and start holding the Israeli war criminals accountable.”
[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.