JENIN, Palestinian Territories, Jan 15, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Palestinian
health ministry said Tuesday that an Israeli air strike on the Jenin refugee
camp in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including a teenager, with
the Israeli military confirming it carried out an attack in the area.

"There are six martyrs and several injured as a result of the Israeli bombing
of Jenin refugee camp," the Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement.

The Israeli military did not offer details but said it had carried out "an
attack in the Jenin area".

The Palestinian ministry said among those killed was 15-year-old Mahmud
Ashraf Mustafa Gharbiya.

Palestinian security forces of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA)
slammed the raid by the Israeli military.

"The pre-planned intervention ... thwarts all efforts being made to maintain
security and order and restore life to normal," said Anwar Rajab, spokesman
for the Palestinian forces, in a statement.

"It reflects the occupation's premeditated intentions to disrupt every
national endeavour aimed at protecting our people."

Israeli forces make frequent raids on Palestinian towns and villages in the
West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.

Violence in the territory has soared since the war in Gaza broke out on
October 7, 2023.

Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 831 Palestinians in the West
Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to the health ministry.

At least 28 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during
Israeli military raids in the territory over the same period, according to
Israeli official figures.

In recent weeks Jenin has also seen intra-Palestinian violence, with PA
forces clashing with militants.

The clashes broke out amid a major PA raid on the Jenin camp after the
December 5 arrest of a Jenin Battalion commander on charges of possessing
weapons and illicit funds.

Armed factions in Jenin and elsewhere see themselves as offering more
effective resistance to the Israeli occupation than the PA, which coordinates
security matters with Israel.