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- Sept. 6, 2024Updated 10:38 a.m. ET
Israeli military forces appeared to withdraw on Friday from the Palestinian city of Jenin after a 10-day raid that killed 21 people, including children, and caused widespread destruction of streets, homes and businesses, according to Palestinian news media and residents.
ِHours after the Israeli military pulled back from the city, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian civil defense teams along with public works and utility employees fanned out to assess the damage and began the effort to restore essential services, according to Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether all soldiers had left Jenin, or whether they would soon return. As Israeli forces have conducted one of their most extensive and deadly raids in the West Bank in years, they have pulled back from Palestinian cities and towns several times over the past week before coming back.
In a statement on Friday, the Israeli military did not comment on a withdrawal but said its forces “are continuing to act in order to achieve the objectives of the counterterrorism operation.”
Palestinian residents who had been trapped in their homes for days — as Israeli troops and bulldozers roamed Jenin — ventured into the streets Friday and some who had fled the raid returned. They found their neighborhoods unrecognizable.
“God, I just collapsed,” said Kareeman Abu Naise, 30, when she saw video of her home taken by her father-in-law, who had returned to the neighborhood known as Jenin camp.
