Israeli forces withdrew from the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin following a brutal raid during which they killed one Palestinian and injured 13 others.
The withdrawal came after Palestinians confronted the invading forces, which used machine gunfire against the Palestinians on Saturday morning.
Ahmad Saadi from the Jenin refugee camp was shot in the head and chest and lost his life immediately, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
Two of the wounded Palestinians were hit in the abdomen by live bullets, including a 19-year-old girl, and one was hit by shrapnel in the head, while the others were reported in stable condition.
The Israeli regime’s forces launched the large-scale attack in Jenin and its refugee camp to target the residence of Raad Hazem, who attacked and killed three Israeli settlers and injured others in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening before he was shot and killed in nearby Jaffa nine hours later.
According to witnesses, the Israeli forces surrounded the Hazem family’s house and said that they had to come out of the house and turn themselves in.
Palestinian media reported that the Israeli forces failed to arrest Fathi Hazem, the father of Raad Hazem due to the relentless resistance of Palestinians in the Jenin camp.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett granted all Israeli “security forces full freedom” of military operations in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli military chief Aviv Kochavi also ordered an increase in military operations in the West Bank following the Thursday shooting attack.
The regime in Tel Aviv has escalated its crackdown on Palestinians since the beginning of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, arresting a number of Palestinians in occupied East al-Quds, desecrating al-Aqsa mosque, issuing new restrictions on the Palestinian people’s entry into the mosque, and ordering the demolition of Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities.
Last May, similar Israeli atrocities against Palestinians led to a war between the Israeli military and the Gaza-based resistance groups, who rose up in protest in solidarity with their fellow countrymen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
During the war, the fourth wholesale military campaign by the occupying regime against the densely-populated Palestinian enclave, the regime killed at least 260 Palestinians, including 66 children.