For eight days and nights, they fought militants street by street, using armored bulldozers to destroy rows of homes, many of which had been booby-trapped. In 2002, days after a Palestinian suicide bombing during a large Passover gathering killed 30 people, Israeli troops launched a massive operation in the camp. Jenin was a major friction point in the last Palestinian uprising. Palestinians reject such claims, saying the violence is a natural response to 56 years of occupation, including stepped-up settlement construction by Israel’s government and increased violence by Jewish settlers. humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian areas, said on Twitter that she was “alarmed by scale of Israeli forces operation” and noted the airstrikes in a densely populated refugee camp. Neither the prime minister nor Hagari gave any indication when the operation would end. He said Israel launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin. He accused militants of operating next to a United Nations building and storing weapons inside of a mosque. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, said there were a total of about 10 airstrikes - most of them aimed at keeping gunmen away from ground troops.
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