Raids on hospital and refugee camps in West Bankpublished at 08:05 British Summer Time
Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem
This appears to be a major Israeli operation with at least four Palestinian cities being targeted at the same time: Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus and Tubas.
Palestinian reports say that the main roads into Jenin have been closed off with armed clashes in the city’s refugee camp.
An Israeli air strike is said to have targeted a vehicle in a nearby village at dawn. Israeli forces are said to have entered a hospital in Jenin and blocked off two in Tulkarm.
Israeli military raids of Nablus are reportedly focused on two refugee camps there.
In al-Far’a refugee camp near Tubas, medics say ambulances are struggling to reach the wounded after an Israeli drone strike.
The Israeli military has given few details but has said that it was acting with the domestic security service to combat terrorism.
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