Israel says it killed Palestinian attackers as Jenin raid

Israel says it killed Palestinian attackers as Jenin raid 
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Reuters Palestinians inspect a building in Burqin, destroyed  in an operation in which Israeli security forces killed two  Palestinians accused of killing three Israelis in an attack in the occupied West Bank (23 January  2025) Reuters
Palestinians say Israeli forces demolished the house where the men  were staying after taking their  bodies.
Israel says it has killed two  gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting attack that killed three Israelis in the occupied West Bank earlier this  month.
Qutaiba Shalabi and Mohammed Nazzal were killed after a fierce  exchange of fire with Israeli forces on Wednesday  evening in Burqin, near the northern West Bank city of  Jenin.
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The Palestinian  Health Ministry said their bodies were taken by Israeli forces and the house they were  staying in  was destroyed.
Hamas issued a statement  describing them as its  fighters.
Reuters Palestinians walk  past Israeli military vehicles and an  armored bulldozer on a destroyed road  in the Jenin refugee camp, during an operation by Israeli security forces, in the occupied West Bank  (January 22, 2025) Reuters
Palestinian families  flee the Jenin refugee camp on roads dug by Israeli bulldozers
Israel has been carrying out a major military operation in and around Jenin since  Tuesday. Army vehicles are  blocking the entry of medical  personnel and ambulances to the main  hospital and  blocking the entrance to  the Jenin refugee  camp, where civilians and  Palestinian armed  groups live.
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Twelve Palestinians  were killed in the operation, including Shalabi and Nazzal, and dozens  more were wounded.
Israel says it  wants to destroy armed groups  in the region, backed by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic  Jihad, and  prevent them  from carrying out attacks  on Israeli  targets.
Israel fears the West Bank  could become the next  hotbed of Iranian influence and  weapons.
But the show of force here after the ceasefire in Gaza also  appeals to those in Israel who  want not only to continue the war  in that region, but  also to annex the West  Bank. Reuters Funeral  of Ahmed al-Shayeb, a Palestinian killed during an operation by Israeli security forces in Jenin, occupied West Bank .Not a valid attachment ID.
Ahmed al-Shayeb, who locals  say was a well-known businessman, was buried on  Wednesday.
Some of those killed in Jenin are  believed to  have been civilians.
Ahmed al-Shayeb  was the owner of a mobile phone shop - a well-known businessman, not a fighter,  residents say.
He was shot dead by Israeli forces as he drove  on a road near  the Jenin refugee camp, with his 10-year-old son Taym in the  car.
"They started  shooting and a bullet hit  him," Taym told reporters at his  father's funeral on  Wednesday.
"He said  'God, God' and then the car  crashed into the  curb. I saw two army vehicles coming  towards us.  "They started  shooting at the car, but I jumped out and ran  away."
The Israeli military said the incident  was being investigated.
Reuters Taym al-Shayeb is comforted during the funeral of his father Ahmed, who was shot dead during an operation by Israeli security forces in  Jenin in the occupied West Bank  (January 23, 2025) Reuters
Ahmed al-Shayeb was shot in front of his 10-year-old son,  Taym.
The roads  leading into  the Jenin camp - some of them torn up by military bulldozers - are guarded by small groups of soldiers, who raised their weapons  as we approached.
Fierce fighting was reported  in the camp on Tuesday  evening, and on Wednesday  several residents  tried to  leave.
One man told us  that residents were separated by the  military into groups of five, before being checked by drone, and arrested or allowed to  leave. We noticed a small group of adults and children  crossing the road between the soldiers,  on dirt and concrete, one man lifting his son  higher above his  head.
Displaced Palestinians  fleeing the Jenin refugee camp during an operation by Israeli security forces in Jenin, occupied West Bank  (January 23, 2025)
Kefah Sehwal  (left) said Israeli forces were carrying out  attacks there  "like in Gaza."
He told us  that military bulldozers had reached the middle of the  camp and he  feared the operation was  beginning in  earnest.
"There are still  many people  in the camp – the elderly,  the sick and  the children," he said.  "They cannot leave. God help  them."
He said  the raid  was unlike many others Israel has carried out since  Hamas's attack on  Israel on October 7, 2023, which  sparked the war in  Gaza. "This time  it's different, there are strikes everywhere." "It's like  Gaza," he  said.
Next to him, Kefah  Sehwal, 52, said  he had lost 15  family members since  then.
"After what happened  with [Israeli forces] in Gaza, the reaction is  here," he told me.  "They're coming after us."
Israeli Defense Minister Israel  Katz spoke of a  "change of strategy" for  the operation, saying the lesson from Gaza  was not just to  "eliminate the terrorists," as he  had said, but to  prevent them  from returning. This plan didn't work in Gaza. It's not  certain it will work in Jenin.

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