Calling the operation “horrible”, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, told reporters at the organization’s headquarters in New York that there were reports that 80% of the homes in the refugee camp had been destroyed. or damaged, according to AP.
NBC News was unable to independently verify his claim.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his forces had concluded a “comprehensive action against the terrorist enclave” and that similar missions would be carried out in the future.
“Jenin was going to be a safe haven. It is no longer a safe haven,” she said. “This is only the first step. It is by no means the last action we will take.”
At the request of the United Arab Emirates, the UN Security Council scheduled closed consultations on the Jenin raid for Friday.
More than 112 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in the first five months of the year, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Palestinian attacks on Israelis have killed at least 25 people, including four settlers killed in a gunfight last month.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, though Hamas militants now control Gaza. The Palestinians seek these territories for their long-awaited independent state.
