Seven people were injured on Tuesday, July 4, in Tel Aviv, in a car-ram attack. Doctors report five injured, who have been evacuated to hospitals. Israel Police said they received information about “a car that attacked a number of civilians” in the north of the city, adding that they had “neutralized the assailant”.

At the same time, the Israeli army was continuing a large-scale operation in which ten Palestinians were killed in the town and camp of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank. In this city, shops remained closed on Tuesday, while drones flew over the city, reported an AFP correspondent, on the second day of an operation mobilizing hundreds of soldiers, the largest in the army. Israeli forces in the West Bank for several years. The almost deserted streets are strewn with debris and stones, the bitumen is gutted and the roadway is blackened around improvised barricades.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 10 Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, 20 of whom are in serious condition.

The army announced that it had “neutralized” an underground shaft used to store explosives in Jenin. “In addition, the soldiers located and dismantled two operations rooms belonging to terrorist organizations in the area,” the military added in a statement Tuesday.

Israeli forces struck a “joint operations center” of a local armed group, the Jenin Brigade, an arms depot, an “observation and reconnaissance” site and a cache used by suspected perpetrators of attacks on Israeli targets, according to the army.

“120 Palestinian suspects” have been apprehended since Monday while “about 300 armed terrorists are still in Jenin, most of them in hiding”, the army said.

The city of Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups, have been repeatedly targeted by Israeli operations. The northern occupied West Bank has seen a recent spate of attacks on Israelis as well as anti-Palestinian violence by Jewish settlers.

“Our forces have entered the nest of terrorists in Jenin…they are destroying command centers and seizing a considerable amount of weapons,” Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister. This is “an open war against the people of Jenin”, denounced the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.

The fighting prompted the exodus on Monday evening of “about 3,000” residents of the camp, where some 18,000 Palestinians live, according to Jenin deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Roub. “There are aerial bombardments and a ground invasion,” said Mahmoud al-Saadi, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jenin, on Monday. Houses are “bombed” and “smoke rises everywhere”.

“We received a lot of injuries,” including “by bullets,” said Qasem Benighader, a 35-year-old nurse at Jenin hospital: “This is the worst raid in five years. »

“Some died, others saw their condition worsen,” Dr. Tawfeek al-Shobaki testified Tuesday, adding that the destruction committed by Israeli forces around the camp made it more difficult for vehicles to move around.

In June, seven people were killed in an Israeli raid on the Jenin camp. Shortly after, four Israelis were shot dead by two Palestinians near the Jewish settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank. “All options are on the table to strike the enemy,” warned Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hamas leader Ishmael Haniyeh denounced a “brutal” Israeli operation.

On the diplomatic front, the Arab League announced an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, Arab countries maintaining diplomatic ties with Israel, denounced the operation. Washington, for its part, said it supports “Israel’s security and its right to defend its people”.

Violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has killed at least 186 Palestinians, 25 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count established from official sources.