Calling the operation “horrific,” Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the U.N., told reporters at the organization’s headquarters in New York that there were reports that 80% of dwellings in the refugee camp were either destroyed or damaged, according to the AP.
NBC News could not independently verify his claim.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that his forces had wrapped up a “comprehensive action against the terrorist enclave” and that similar missions would take place in the future.
“Jenin was to be a safe haven. It no longer is a safe haven,” he said. “This is just the first step. It’s by no means the last action that we will take.”
At the request of the United Arab Emirates, the U.N. Security Council has scheduled closed consultations on the Jenin raid for Friday.
Over 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 targeting Israelis have killed at least 25 people, including four settlers killed in a shooting last month.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, although Hamas militants now control Gaza. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state.
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