Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces withdraw from occupied West Bank city of Jenin after 10-day raid

Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces withdraw from occupied West Bank city of Jenin after 10-day raid

Twenty-one people were killed in operation, Palestinian media reports, as Israeli raids continue elsewhere in occupied West Bank

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Israeli forces have withdrawn from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting, after a 10-day raid in which 21 people were killed according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it had been forced to suspend its activities in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarem since the start of Israel’s “recent incursions” and accused the Israeli military of “repeated attacks” on health workers, ambulances and medical facilities. In a statement on Thursday it said Israeli forces had caused “wide-scale damage to road infrastructure, electricity networks and water supplies.”

US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Thursday it was incumbent on both Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to say yes on remaining issues to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, which has faced obstacles in negotiations across months. “Based on what I have seen, 90% is agreed but there are a few critical issues that remain,” including the so-called Philadelphi corridor on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, Blinken said at a press briefing in Haiti.

At least 40,878 Palestinians have been killed and 94,454 injured in Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip since 7 October, the territory’s health ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The figure does not include the thousands buried under the rubble or those who have died of curable diseases and illnesses but who could not access appropriate healthcare due to Israel’s destruction of the health system.

Five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike that struck a tent encampment inside the al-Aqsa hospital compound where displaced people have sought shelter, according to Gaza health officials. The Israeli military claimed the airstrike had hit a command centre used by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

Amnesty International on Thursday urged a war crimes probe into Israel razing homes and farms in eastern Gaza to expand a so-called buffer zone between it and the Palestinian territory. “Using bulldozers and manually laid explosives, the Israeli military has unlawfully destroyed agricultural land and civilian buildings, razing entire neighbourhoods, including homes, schools and mosques,” it said. The London-based rights group said the levelling since the start of the war on 7 October “should be investigated as war crimes of wanton destruction and of collective punishment”.

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