Pain in the Palestinian territories after one of the deadliest Israeli police interventions in recent years. Gaza has been the scene of protests after ten people were killed on Thursday in the West Bank town of Ye nin in what Tel Aviv has called an “anti-terrorist” operation.
Missiles have been launched from the Arab area overnight. The Palestinian leadership has decided to end security coordination with Israel after the incursion, a move that could significantly affect civilians.
“The immediate direction of the Security Council to implement the decision on international protection for the Palestinian people under Chapter VII, and to stop the unilateral measures, to urgently resort to the International Criminal Court and thus add the file of the massacre committed by the occupation forces in Jenin today to the files previously submitted to the court,” said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In addition to the dozen deaths, 20 people were injured. Israel maintains that the dead were armed people, although many witnesses affirm that several of them were civilians. The Palestinian presidency has announced three days of mourning and has criticized the “international silence” before the incursion ordered by Tel Aviv.