Editing Jenin (section)

=== Israeli occupation in the 2020s ===
On 6 February 2020, a Palestinian policeman, Tarek Badwan, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as he stood at the entrance to the Jenin police station and chatted with a colleague. No explanation has been forthcoming. The incident was recorded on video.<ref>[[Gideon Levy]], Alex Levac, [http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-what-the-israeli-army-does-to-soldiers-who-shoot-palestinians-1.10398852 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,'] [[Haaretz]] 19 November 2021</ref>

On 17 June 2022, Israeli forces conducted a raid in the al-Marah area of the city. During the raid, Israeli forces opened fire on a car, killing three Palestinians and seriously injuring another.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/17/palestinians-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-jenin-raid|title=Three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Jenin raid|work=Al Jazeera|date=17 June 2022|access-date=17 June 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Jenin - panoramio.jpg|thumb|A street in Jenin]]
On 26 January 2023, Israeli forces killed nine in a clash with Islamic Jihad militants during [[January 2023 Jenin incursion|a raid]] in the city and refugee camp of Jenin.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=26 January 2023 |title=Israeli forces kill nine in Jenin clash with Palestinian gunmen, marking West Bank's deadliest day in over a year |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/26/middleeast/israel-raid-jenin-west-bank-intl/index.html |work=CNN |location= |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nine Palestinians killed in Jenin, Israeli forces thwart terror attack |url=https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-729685 |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=26 January 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>

On 3 July 2023, shortly after 1 a.m., Israeli forces [[July 2023 Jenin incursion|attacked]] the city's refugee camp using drone-fired missiles and ground troops. Eight Palestinians died from injuries sustained during the attack and a further eighty were injured, nine of them critically.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kershner |first=Isabel |date=2023-07-03 |title=Israel Launches Biggest Air Attack on West Bank in Nearly Two Decades |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-jenin.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-07-02 |title=Jenin: Israeli military launches major operation in West Bank city |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66083295 |access-date=2023-07-03}}</ref> Fifty Palestinians, whom Israeli forces labeled "militants", were arrested. Israeli forces cut off [[telecommunications]] and electricity in the area and medical professionals struggled to reach the injured. Israel claimed that while they were targeting suspected members of the [[Jenin Brigades]], an armed group, they acknowledged that innocent people may have been injured or killed in the raid. [[Yoav Gallant]], the [[Israeli Minister of Defense]], said "The operation is progressing as planned," and [[Eli Cohen (politician born 1972)|Eli Cohen]], the [[Israeli Foreign Minister]], said claimed the refugee camp had become a "center for terrorist activity" thanks to funding from Iranian sources.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-03 |title=Palestinians in occupied West Bank say Israel bombing "innocent people" in raid on Jenin refugee camp - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-jenin-refugee-camp-raid-deaths/ |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The refugee camp has a population of roughly 17,000 inhabitants and is about a quarter a square mile in size.

On 19 September 2023, four Palestinians were killed during another Israeli military invasion of the city – among them a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, chased and killed for having noticed the Israeli undercover soldiers sneaking into the Jenin refugee camp.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Al Jazeera Staff |title=Palestinian boy discovers undercover Israeli forces, they kill him: DCIP |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/21/palestinian-boy-discovers-undercover-israeli-forces-they-kill-him-dcip |access-date=2023-09-23 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref>

==== Gaza war ====
During the [[Gaza war]], Israeli forces carried out [[October-November 2023 Jenin incursion|multiple operations in Jenin]]. On October 22, 2023, the IDF conducted [[Al-Ansar Mosque airstrike|an airstrike]] targeting an underground compound beneath the [[Al-Ansar Mosque (Jenin)|Al-Ansar Mosque]] in the city. It was reported to be the first airstrike in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. The IDF stated that the strike aimed at operatives from Hamas and PIJ who were planning a terror attack.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-10-22 |title=Israel strikes militant compound under West Bank mosque, military says |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-jets-strike-west-banks-jenin-two-killed-palestinian-medics-2023-10-21/ |access-date=2023-10-22}}</ref>

Jenin was severely damaged during the [[Gaza war]]. By June 2024 repeated bombing attacks and incursions with bulldozers by Israeli forces razed every street and reduced every public square to rubble. In one incident on 21 May, according to journalist [[Gideon Levy]], an Israeli sniper shot dead bystanders, including surgeon Oussaid Jabareen, who was shot while on his way to work at the Jenin Government Hospital.<ref>[[Gideon Levy]], Alex Levac,   [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/2024-06-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/in-a-single-hour-israeli-snipers-killed-seven-bystanders-at-the-jenin-refugee-camp/00000190-16fe-d231-a1b2-f6ff7d4e0000 'In a Single Hour, Israeli Snipers Killed Seven Bystanders at the Jenin Refugee Camp,'] [[Haaretz]] 14 June 2024.</ref><ref>David Gritten, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0wwp2d0gd4o 'Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli West Bank raid,'] [[BBC News]] 21 May 2024</ref>
[[File:Aftermath of Israel raid on Jenin, August 2024.webm|thumb|Aftermath of Israel raid on Jenin, August 2024]]
In late August 2024 Israel launched a large-scale, multi-day raid on Jenin as part of [[2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank|Operation Summer Camps]], with one resident saying that "The water is cut off. The electricity is cut off, the sewage system is no longer working. All the infrastructure is destroyed, we no longer have any services that work." The governor of Jenin said that "The Israelis are besieging the hospitals and cutting off the city from the refugee camp, which has become a military zone with no access...neither the civil defence, nor the ambulances, nor the journalists can go and see what is happening there." The IDF, on the other hand, says that this is operation is "not extremely different from regular activity".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-31 |title=West Bank city 'cut off from the world' as Israel raid drags on |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240831-west-bank-city-cut-off-from-the-world-as-israel-raid-drags-on |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=France 24 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901084737/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240831-west-bank-city-cut-off-from-the-world-as-israel-raid-drags-on |archive-date=2024-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fabian |first=Emanuel |date=2024-08-31 |title=<nowiki>Soldier killed in fierce clashes in Jenin as IDF presses major West Bank operation | The Times of Israel</nowiki> |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/fierce-clashes-in-jenin-as-idf-continues-major-west-bank-operation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831155521/https://www.timesofisrael.com/fierce-clashes-in-jenin-as-idf-continues-major-west-bank-operation/ |archive-date=2024-08-31 |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=Times of Israel}}</ref> At least 20 Palestinians were killed by the IDF in this attack,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photos: Aftermath of Israeli assault as military withdraws from Jenin |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/6/aftermath-of-israeli-military-withdrawal-from-jenin-in-occupied-west-bank |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Shezaf |first=Hagar |date=30 August 2024 |title=Palestinian Red Crescent: Israeli Forces Shot Dead Elderly Palestinian in West Bank City of Jenin |url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-08-30/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-red-crescent-israeli-forces-shot-dead-elderly-palestinian-in-west-bank/00000191-a47d-dd37-adb5-afff8e000000 |access-date=14 September 2024 |work=[[Haaretz]] |quote=The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said that a Palestinian man in his 80s was shot to death by the Israeli army outside his home in the West Bank city of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the man, Tawfiq Ahmad Younes Qandil, was shot in Jenin's eastern neighborhood. Additionally, it said that IDF forces fired at ambulances carrying a dead and a wounded person.}}</ref> including a Palestinian man in his 80s.<ref name=":3" /> Additionally, the Israeli forces fired at ambulances carrying "a dead and a wounded person",<ref name=":3" /> leading to the injury of 2 EMTs and a volunteer doctor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 September 2024 |title=PRCS Condemns Occupation's Dismantling of Humanitarian Space During Jenin Incursion |url=https://www.palestinercs.org/en/Article/11931/PRCS-Condemns-Occupation's-Dismantling-of-Humanitarian-Space-During-Jenin-Incursion |access-date=12 September 2024 |website=Palestine Red Crescent Society}}</ref>

Also in August, Israeli bulldozers destroyed miles of the city, including homes, businesses and infrastructure; Israeli soldiers blocked emergency responders from assisting residents. News reports include videos of this attack, as well as assertions by the [[Israel Defense Forces]] that it is rooting out terrorism; and that it "undertakes all feasible precautions to avoid damaging essential infrastructure”, while acknowledging that these “operations in the area have caused unavoidable harm to certain civilian structures".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Erika |last2=Leatherby |first2 = Lauren | last3 = Toler | first3 = Aric |title=Israeli Bulldozers Flatten Mile After Mile in the West Bank |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/west-bank-raids.html |access-date=28 September 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=September 28, 2024}}</ref>

In December 2024, the Palestinian Authority launched an anti-militant operation in Jenin, the largest in three decades, called "[[December 2024 Palestinian Authority operation in Jenin|Protect the Homeland]]". The operation aims to regain control of the Jenin refugee camp, targeting militants and those fueling instability.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ibrahim |first=Kareem Khadder, Tim Lister, Nadeen |date=2024-12-23 |title=A new front in the Middle East: Militants battle Palestinian Authority in sprawling refugee camp |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/23/middleeast/west-bank-jenin-palestinian-authority-security-operation-militants-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-12-25 |title=Palestinian Authority, seeking Gaza role, takes on West Bank militants |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/22/palestinian-authority-jenin-camp-militants-crackdown/ |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>

On January 21, 2025, the IDF launched its own operation in Jenin, dubbed [[2025 Israeli raid on Jenin|Iron Wall]], aimed at clearing Jenin of militants and putting a stop to light arms being smuggled into the city.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ben Kimon |first1=Elisha |last2=Ḥalabi |first2=Einav |last3=Zeitoun |first3=Yoav |last4=Eichner|first4=Itamar |title=Operation "Iron Wall" begins in Jenin: Ground forces and special units enter the city |language=he|publisher=[[Ynet News]] |date=January 21, 2025 |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/rkis00etdjx |accessdate=January 31, 2025 }}</ref><ref>TV7 Israel News, {{YouTube|_SunpIA98qE|POTUS Trump casts doubt on Gaza ceasefire; Israel launches Counter-Terror Ops.}},  January 21, 2025, minutes 07:56–09:10.</ref> Operations in Jenin are ongoing. Around 100 homes have been demolished, residents are being prevented from returning to the area by military checkpoints, and Israeli tanks have been deployed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-28 |title=Tens of thousands of Palestinians seek shelter after Israeli assaults across the West Bank |url=https://apnews.com/article/west-bank-displacement-israel-raid-unrwa-689db0e777c8c32aee83a23de5555f52 |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-25 |title=Israeli tanks enter Jenin in occupied West Bank as military operation displaces more than 40,000 Palestinians - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-palestinians-west-bank-displaced-annexation-concern/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>