Operation Wall of Iron: Israeli security forces launch counterterror operation in Jenin

IDF soldiers, including special operations, ISA, and Border Police personnel will operate in the coming days in the Jenin area.

IDF forces in Jenin
IDF forces in JeninIDF Spokesperson

The IDF launched a counterterrorism operation on Tuesday in Jenin with drone strikes on several targets.

The IDF stated that a large force of IDF soldiers, including special operations, ISA, and Border Police personnel will operate in the coming days in the Jenin area. The operation will continue for as long as is needed.

"The operation has clear objectives: continue to maintain the IDF's freedom of operation in all of Judea and Samaria and to destroy and neutralize terrorist infrastructure and 'ticking time bombs,'" the IDF stated.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that the operation was instructed by the Security Cabinet. "This is another step to reach the goal that we set - strengthening the security in Judea and Samaria. We working systematically and with determination against the Iranian axis in every place it sends its tendrils - Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Judea and Samaria - and there's more to come."

This is the IDF's first operation in the city in over a month and due to it, the Palestinian Authority stopped its operations in the Jenin "Refugee" Camp.

Minutes before the IDF's announcement, Minister of Defense Israel Katz announced to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee that he instructed the IDF to work to protect the communities and residents of Judea and Samaria and the "seamline" of 1948 and 1967 territories.

"Our enemies recognize here and now a possibility that this is the only arena that's open today, the only place where there are clashes, shooting, and terrorism against Israel," Katz stated.