He told us military bulldozers had reached the middle of the camp, and that he was worried the operation there was about to start in earnest.
“There are still a lot of people inside the camp – the elderly, sick, and kids,” he said. “They can’t leave. God help them.”
He said this raid felt different to the many others Israel has carried out since Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza.
“It’s different this time – they’re striking everywhere. It’s like Gaza,” he said.
Next to him, 52-year-old Kefah Sehwal said she had lost 15 members of her family since then.
“After what happened to [Israeli forces] in Gaza, the reaction is here,” she told me. “They’re taking it out on us.”
Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has talked about a “shift in strategy” for this operation, saying the lesson from Gaza is not just to “eliminate terrorists”, as he put it, but to stop them coming back.
That plan didn’t work in Gaza. It’s not clear it’ll work in Jenin.
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