Dubai Telegraph - Israel 'on offensive' after Tel Aviv attacks, Jenin camp on alert

EUR -
AED 3.841211
AFN 75.832767
ALL 100.186787
AMD 414.576178
ANG 1.887817
AOA 956.388626
ARS 1105.306912
AUD 1.656685
AWG 1.885056
AZN 1.78038
BAM 1.969275
BBD 2.114972
BDT 127.270845
BGN 1.955518
BHD 0.394123
BIF 3061.059083
BMD 1.045801
BND 1.414197
BOB 7.238599
BRL 6.033118
BSD 1.047467
BTN 91.024834
BWP 14.518551
BYN 3.428089
BYR 20497.696624
BZD 2.104097
CAD 1.485084
CDF 2996.219457
CHF 0.944918
CLF 0.02597
CLP 996.585326
CNY 7.62368
CNH 7.61239
COP 4328.967115
CRC 531.134264
CUC 1.045801
CUP 27.713722
CVE 110.907656
CZK 25.04069
DJF 185.859769
DKK 7.459799
DOP 65.101235
DZD 141.548368
EGP 52.957052
ERN 15.687013
ETB 131.874426
FJD 2.411404
FKP 0.840462
GBP 0.832677
GEL 2.949014
GGP 0.840462
GHS 16.168365
GIP 0.840462
GMD 74.777355
GNF 9050.360522
GTQ 8.08633
GYD 219.151631
HKD 8.144587
HNL 26.704726
HRK 7.555991
HTG 137.069861
HUF 402.027044
IDR 16982.759973
ILS 3.727799
IMP 0.840462
INR 90.759879
IQD 1369.999111
IRR 44028.215839
ISK 146.799364
JEP 0.840462
JMD 164.777483
JOD 0.741999
JPY 160.097469
KES 134.908497
KGS 91.455371
KHR 4192.615543
KMF 492.206077
KPW 941.314949
KRW 1508.564274
KWD 0.322808
KYD 0.872986
KZT 523.280525
LAK 22720.023256
LBP 93729.900655
LKR 309.903465
LRD 206.545178
LSL 19.358075
LTL 3.087978
LVL 0.632594
LYD 5.134724
MAD 10.425622
MDL 19.640672
MGA 4925.722497
MKD 61.482134
MMK 3396.720361
MNT 3619.675593
MOP 8.403923
MRU 41.88392
MUR 48.650272
MVR 16.115643
MWK 1811.327328
MXN 21.361581
MYR 4.643182
MZN 66.837223
NAD 19.357987
NGN 1576.17837
NIO 38.543734
NOK 11.666743
NPR 145.641636
NZD 1.842253
OMR 0.402641
PAB 1.047477
PEN 3.88672
PGK 4.192621
PHP 60.517345
PKR 291.935403
PLN 4.170683
PYG 8239.377593
QAR 3.80771
RON 4.976447
RSD 117.081589
RUB 93.599748
RWF 1464.121187
SAR 3.922391
SBD 8.833842
SCR 15.049083
SDG 628.52583
SEK 11.232108
SGD 1.405645
SHP 0.861308
SLE 23.854476
SLL 21929.926782
SOS 597.677932
SRD 36.969175
STD 21645.966093
SVC 9.165716
SYP 13598.565212
SZL 19.357906
THB 35.233282
TJS 11.417735
TMT 3.670761
TND 3.331868
TOP 2.449369
TRY 37.853286
TTD 7.108641
TWD 34.12626
TZS 2730.060284
UAH 43.701425
UGX 3854.373387
USD 1.045801
UYU 45.450997
UZS 13595.411031
VES 64.573691
VND 26631.318598
VUV 129.327127
WST 2.967323
XAF 660.48582
XAG 0.032328
XAU 0.000357
XCD 2.826329
XDR 0.802096
XOF 660.046764
XPF 119.331742
YER 259.358393
ZAR 19.348781
ZMK 9413.459828
ZMW 29.30379
ZWL 336.747446
  • RBGPF

    -0.8400

    64.01

    -1.31%

  • BCC

    1.8800

    120.6

    +1.56%

  • JRI

    0.0700

    12.92

    +0.54%

  • SCS

    0.4900

    12.42

    +3.95%

  • NGG

    0.6900

    61.27

    +1.13%

  • RIO

    1.2500

    63.29

    +1.98%

  • GSK

    0.4200

    36.55

    +1.15%

  • CMSC

    0.1300

    23.41

    +0.56%

  • AZN

    0.0200

    74.45

    +0.03%

  • BTI

    -3.1300

    39.61

    -7.9%

  • RELX

    0.4700

    51.91

    +0.91%

  • RYCEF

    0.2100

    7.88

    +2.66%

  • BCE

    0.3700

    23.63

    +1.57%

  • VOD

    -0.1600

    8.43

    -1.9%

  • CMSD

    0.1600

    23.87

    +0.67%

  • BP

    -0.1900

    34.49

    -0.55%

Israel 'on offensive' after Tel Aviv attacks, Jenin camp on alert
Israel 'on offensive' after Tel Aviv attacks, Jenin camp on alert

Israel 'on offensive' after Tel Aviv attacks, Jenin camp on alert

Israeli forces Sunday raided the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin, home of gunmen who launched two recent deadly attacks in Tel Aviv, as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned the Jewish state had "gone on the offensive".

Text size:

The military operation entered its second day as Israel buried three civilian victims from last Thursday's shooting spree and Palestinian militant groups in Jenin warned they were mobilising fighters.

Israeli authorities demanded that Fathi Hazem -- the father of the late 28-year-old Tel Aviv shooter who killed three Israelis -- turn himself in, Israeli and Palestinian media said, as the Jenin refugee camp girded for more battle.

Abu Muadh, the military spokesman of the armed factions in Jenin refugee camp, announced a "state of alert" and called for "general mobilisation of our fighters to confront any incursion by the Zionist enemy".

Mosques in Jenin asked civilians to vacate the streets, according to local residents. Elsewhere in the West Bank, protests were held in solidarity with Jenin, a militant stronghold that saw a major battle against Israeli troops 20 years ago.

Tensions have surged in the West Bank during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, nearly a year after violence flared in the other Palestinian territory, the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, leading to 11 days of devastating conflict.

Gun battles rocked the Jenin area for a second day Sunday, with at least 10 Palestinians wounded, according to the Palestinian health ministry, and more than 20 arrested, according to an Israeli military source.

- Separation barrier -

"The State of Israel has gone on the offensive," Bennett said after a security cabinet meeting, which also approved a 360 million shekel ($112 million) plan to build an additional 40 kilometres (25 miles) of the separation barrier that runs roughly along the West Bank border.

The cabinet also agreed to evaluate a policy to strip the families of "terrorists who are residents and citizens of Israel" of state pensions and other benefits.

In recent weeks, Israel has been stunned by a string of attacks -- some carried out by Arab citizens of Israel linked to or inspired by the Islamic State group, others by Palestinians, and cheered by militant groups including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

A total of 14 people have been killed in four attacks since March 22, including a shooting spree in Bnei Brak, an Orthodox Jewish city in greater Tel Aviv, also carried out by a Palestinian attacker from Jenin.

Over the same period, at least 12 Palestinians have been killed, including assailants, according to a count by AFP.

The latest casualties were two Palestinian women shot dead Sunday in the West Bank.

The army said one woman had failed to stop after soldiers fired warning shots near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien was a widowed mother of six in her 40s, according to Palestinian official news agency Wafa.

The Islamic Jihad movement condemned the killing of the woman, who was not found to have been armed, as an "execution in broad daylight".

Further south in Hebron, a Palestinian woman stabbed and lightly wounded an officer before she was killed, according to border police.

- 'Heart is bleeding' -

In the Jenin area, Israeli forces confronted relatives of the Tel Aviv gunman, Raad Hazem, who was killed after an hours-long manhunt, and whose family home faces demolition under standard Israeli practice to deter such attacks.

The army said that when troops spotted two of his brothers in a car outside the house, they fired at its wheels. The car then sped off and soldiers also shot at another gunman who fired at them from a motorcycle, the army said.

The father, Fathi Hazem, wrote on Facebook that his wife and one son were in the car that came under fire, charging that Israeli troops tried to "assassinate" them.

In Israel, meanwhile, thousands of Israelis gathered Sunday to bury the victims of the Tel Aviv shootings.

In Kfar Saba, mourners wept for one of them, Tomer Morad, 27, as his girlfriend Ariel Weinblat spoke of her lost love.

"You came to me yesterday in a dream and said it's all a joke. I believed it. And then I woke up," she said in her eulogy. "I love you so much my heart is bleeding."

Eytam Magini, 27 and Barak Lufan, 35, were buried the same day.

A.Hussain--DT