The Israeli military struck the West Bank city of Jenin, authorities said Friday, the third day of an intense military assault on the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military claims it "struck a terrorist cell" in airstrikes, which have become common during the months-long Israeli war on Gaza but comparatively rare in the West Bank.
The raids across the northern West Bank have killed 18 people and Palestinians see them as a widening of the Gaza war and an effort to perpetuate Israel's decades-long military occupation of the territory.
Over 650 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the war, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for an immediate halt to Israel's West Bank operation and issued a statement late Thursday calling on the government to protect civilians.
Meanwhile in Gaza, fears of a polio epidemic sweeping through the enclave are rising, amid a breakdown in health services.
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