Two Palestinians killed as Israel raids Jenin refugee camp

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians on Saturday during a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said.

Israeli reconnaissance planes and helicopters flew overhead as soldiers besieged the camp early on Saturday morning, with snipers stationed on the rooves of buildings close to the camp's entry points, The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported, citing local sources.

The Al-Quds Brigade, a Palestinian armed group, said its members had clashed with the Israeli soldiers.

Eleven people were injured in the raid, three of them critically, the health ministry said.

The Israeli army said it arrested a wanted man and reported exchanges of fire in Jenin, but gave no further details. Israeli media added that one Israeli soldier was wounded in his leg.

Saturday's raid has made 2022 the deadliest year of violence in the occupied territory since 2015. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on Palestinian towns and refugee camps in the West Bank since the beginning of the year.

The deadly raid occurred a day after two Palestinian teenagers, ages 14 and 17, were killed by Israeli fire in separate incidents elsewhere in the occupied West Bank.

Israel has upped its raids in the northern West Bank since a spate of deadly attacks in Israel by Palestinian assailants last spring.

Hundreds of people have been rounded up in the raids, with many placed in so-called administrative detention, which allows Israel to hold them without trial or charge.

Security forces also shot at journalists reporting on the Saturday raid, local sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

In May this year, veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli forces in May as she reported on a raid, leading to worldwide outrage.

Agencies contributed to this report.