Jenin (/ ʒ ɪ ˈ n iː n / zhin-EEN; Arabic: جنين, romanized: Jinīn, locally pronounced [ʒɪˈniːn] ⓘ) is a city in the State of Palestine in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The city serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. [ 2 ]

Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said it marks a shift in the IDF's security plan in the West Bank and was “the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza”, [39] later clarifying that Israeli forces planned to maintain a long-term military presence in Jenin beyond the …

Feb 2, 2025 · Israel has destroyed multiple buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, hours after its forces killed a 73-year-old man, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

Jan 23, 2025 · On Tuesday, the Israeli military launched another major operation, this time in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where its forces have regularly clashed with Palestinian militants in recent years, even before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, …

Jan 22, 2025 · Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has been losing support to factions like Hamas that favor armed struggle and are actively fighting ...

Feb 1, 2025 · Jenin, town in the West Bank. Originally administered as part of the British mandate of Palestine (1920–48), Jenin was in the area annexed by Jordan in 1950 following the first of the Arab-Israeli wars (1948–49). After the Six-Day War of …

Jul 4, 2023 · Jenin is a small city in the hilly, far north of the West Bank, near the border with Israel, and contains a teeming, concrete and cinder-block refugee camp by the same name housing some 14,000 people.

Sep 4, 2024 · Israeli security forces and rescue services check the scene of a shooting attack in the West Bank city of Tarkumiya, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Israeli authorities said Palestinian gunmen killed several Israelis in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. Israel has been carrying out large-scale military raids in the territory in recent days.

Sep 6, 2024 · Israel’s security forces on August 28 launched what they dubbed a “counterterrorism operation” in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, in the northern West Bank. It has come to be known as Operation ...

Aug 29, 2024 · Of the 10 camps across the occupied West Bank, Jenin has the highest rates of unemployment and poverty, according to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

Jul 5, 2023 · Israeli forces have concluded their largest-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in decades, killing at least 12 Palestinians and leaving widespread destruction across ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Jenin, a city of about 50,000 people in the northern West Bank, has been a center of resistance for generations, first to British rule and then to Israeli forces in the war following Israel’s ...

Feb 2, 2025 · The Israeli military destroyed almost two dozen buildings in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, as Israel turned to the territory since it withdrew some of its troops during the ongoing ...

Aug 17, 2024 · Located less than 20 miles south of Nazareth, Jenin is home to one of the most densely populated of 19 refugee camps for Palestinians in the West Bank, with over 20,000 registered refugees ...

Feb 2, 2025 · It comes after Israel has stepped up its efforts in the West Bank in recent weeks, since the ceasefire in Gaza came into effect. Image: Smoke rises over Jenin after the Israeli explosions. Pic ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Israeli soldiers stand guard as Palestinians displaced by an Israeli military operation evacuate from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank carry their belongings, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Jenin: What is Israel doing in the West Bank? Earlier this week, Israel launched a raid in the Jenin area, which it says is a hotbed of Iranian-supported Palestinian militant activity. The ...

6 days ago · But this week, violence flared once again in the West Bank as Israel's military detonated buildings in the Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday and a gunman opened fire on Israeli troops, setting off a ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Israel has begun a military operation in the occupied West Bank focused on the city of Jenin. Palestinians there worry the focus of the conflict is shifting over to them following a ceasefire in Gaza.

Jan 23, 2025 · Now, Israel seems to be focusing its attention on the West Bank, and Jenin in particular. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Jan 21 that Israel’s latest operation was aimed at ...