By NASSER NASSER and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the operation was “proceeding as planned,” but gave no indication when the incursion would end. Fighting was continuing at midafternoon, some 14 hours after Israel entered the camp. Lynn Hastings, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian areas, said on Twitter that she was “alarmed by scale of Israeli forces operation,” noting the airstrikes in a densely populated refugee camp. She said the U.N. was mobilizing humanitarian aid.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least eight Palestinians were killed and 50 people were wounded — 10 critically. Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, accused archenemy Iran of being behind the violence by funding Palestinian militant groups. In 2002, days after a Palestinian suicide bombing during a large Passover gathering killed 30 people, Israeli troops launched a massive operation in the Jenin camp. For eight days and nights they fought militants street by street, using armored bulldozers to destroy rows of homes, many of which had been booby-trapped.
Israeli military experts said they expected the operation to wrap up quickly — within hours or a day or two. Prolonged violence and heavy casualties would risk attracting increased international criticism and drawing militants from the Gaza Strip or even Lebanon into the fighting.
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