Israeli Army Kills At Least 12 Palestinians In Jenin Refugee Camp Offensive

The Israeli army launched a violent offensive in the Jenin refugee camp that began on January 21, and RFI says it has killed at least 12 Palestinians so far.

“Israeli special forces in civilian clothes executed three young Palestinians at dawn on Tuesday, January 30, during an infiltration operation inside Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank”

La Croix

RFI reports that the Israeli army deployed substantial resources and kept its strategy the same: encircle the area and send in bulldozers to destroy roads, sidewalks and pipelines to ensure that no explosive device is hidden there.

La Croix

RFI quotes a Jenin resident, Ali, saying, "They gave us until Thursday evening at 5 p.m. to leave the camp before they bomb it."

RFI also reports that the offensive, nicknamed Iron Wall, could last several more days, and it says Israel’s chief of staff, General Herzi Halevi, said the decision to go in by force was the right one after recognizing the camp had become a hub for planning attacks or seeking refuge.

La Croix describes Israeli special forces, known as mista'arvim, as infiltrators who operate in civilian clothes and says they executed three young Palestinians at dawn on Tuesday, January 30, during an infiltration operation inside Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin.

La Croix says Palestinian producer Rania Zabaneh of Al Jazeera English reported on X that, "Two of them were visiting the third, who was hospitalized."

Mediapart

La Croix adds that Haaretz, relying on a joint statement from the Israeli internal security service, the police, and the Israeli army, said the three victims were "wanted Palestinians" affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

In a separate WAFA report, WAFA says Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian near the town of Arraba, located southwest of Jenin, and it describes special units dressed in civilian clothes to deceive Palestinians and infiltrate Palestinian towns, villages, and camps.

RFI reports that hundreds of Palestinians were forced to leave Jenin on the third day of the Israeli operation, and it says the population had been ordered to evacuate before the camp was bombed.

“Hundreds of Palestinians are forced to leave Jenin”

RFI

Mediapart frames the broader context in Jenin (West Bank) by saying that Israel wants to end the refugee question and describes refugee camps in the north of the West Bank as subjected to geographic and demographic upheaval with the expulsion of thousands of inhabitants.

In the WAFA Agency item dated 29/May/2026, WAFA says Israeli undercover forces surrounded a house in the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin, after storming the town and deploying military reinforcements while surveillance drones hovered overhead.

While the sources here focus on the West Bank, WAFA also includes a line that the FDLP called on the representative of the so-called 'Peace Council' to address the Gaza situation and end the 'encirclement and genocide' campaign.