The Israeli attack on the refugee camp, which was launched just days after a ceasefire paused more than a year of genocidal war on Gaza, has left at least 10 Palestinians dead, with nearly 40 others injured, according to Palestinian health authorities who spoke to WAFA.
One of them, Ahmed Obeidi, was killed by Israeli forces while picking up his child from school amid an assault on the camp. The child witnessed his father's final moments.
Israeli forces have besieged a Palestinian government hospital in Jenin and a nearby refugee camp in the heart of the city.
They have detained around 20 people from villages around Jenin since the assaults began on Tuesday, the official said.
Jenin's mayor, Mohammad Jarar, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli forces had called on people from some Jenin neighbourhoods to evacuate their homes using a loudspeaker.
The Israeli occupation army also used a drone equipped with speakers to announce a complete curfew on Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp until Monday, Quds News reported.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that a Palestinian resident sustained critical injuries after being shot by Israeli forces with live bullets near the Cinema roundabout in Jenin. Israeli soldiers also shot and injured a 50-year-old man in the Khillat al-Souha area of the Jenin camp. Additionally, two other residents were wounded: one was run over, while the other was struck by shrapnel in the head.
The Red Crescent said Israel prevented the ambulances from reaching many of the dead and wounded who lay in the streets of neighbourhoods around the camp.
"No one can break the siege on the refugee camp and the surrounding area," said Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent.
"The situation is very difficult," Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP.
"The occupation army has bulldozed all the roads leading to Jenin refugee camp and the Jenin government hospital... There is shooting and explosions," he added.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli forces stormed the village of Fahma, firing tear gas canisters at residents, sparking new clashes, Wafa reported.
Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters are engaging in fierce clashes with "enemy forces in the towns of Araba and Fahma," west of the city of Jenin.
In Turmusayya, a town northeast of Ramallah, Israeli troops entered and deployed near the municipal building.
Bethlehem, soldiers raided the town of Al-Khader, deploying on the main Jerusalem-Hebron Road and using tear gas on local stores.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli soldiers also launched a raid on the Aida refugee camp located north of Bethlehem and in Tulkarm.
Wafa said at least 29 people were arrested across the West Bank on Wednesday morning, most of them minors.

Israeli soldiers transfer Palestinian men arrested during a raid on Jenin, on January 22, 2025. AFP
On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers, drones, and warplanes, stormed the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, launching an unprecedented onslaught. The attack coincides with threats from Israeli government extremist ministers to escalate tensions in the West Bank, WAFA said.
The head of Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin, Wissam Bakr, said around 600 medical staff and patients were sheltering inside the hospital as Israeli forces shot two nurses and three doctors on the main road leading to the hospital on Tuesday.
A medical worker at another hospital, al-Amal, told the British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians: "I was called in [on Tuesday] due to the surge of injuries, and the moment I stepped out of the car making my way to the emergency entrance a sniper shot me below the knee."
"Another doctor was shot in the same spot," they added. "The Israeli army is shooting non-stop."
The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry condemned the raid, saying it was part of an Israeli plan aimed at "gradually annexing the occupied West Bank".

Palestinian residents evacuated during a military raid by Israeli forces in Jenin. AFP
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "maximum restraint" from Israeli security forces and expressed deep concern, deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.
Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, warned that the occupied West Bank could explode. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Safadi described it as "dangerous", adding: "I think the whole world needs to take a deep look at what is happening, and, with the same vigour that we're looking at the ceasefire, we should also be working to prevent an explosion in the West Bank."
Since mid-December, Israel’s army operations in the Jenin refugee camp have displaced 2,000 families, rendering the area “nearly uninhabitable,” according to Roland Friedrich, director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
In another development in the West Bank on Monday night, dozens of masked Israeli terrorists attacked Palestinians in two villages east of Qalqilya, Jinsafut, and al-Funduq, setting fire to Palestinian homes and cars and smashing property.
At least 21 Palestinians were injured, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
The violence happened just as new US President Donald Trump announced lifting sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in deadly attacks on the Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli troops and terrorist settlers have killed at least 848 Palestinians in the West Bank since the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza erupted in October 2023.
According to the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, in 2024, settlers also established 59 new unauthorized posts, twice as many as those in the previous year.
Israel has built about 160 colonial settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank in 1967. All these settlements are considered illegal under international law.
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