a lot of the focus is in tulkarem, as you say, which is a palestinian city to the west of here.ust driving into janine this morning, all but one road was closed, blocked off by the israeli army, bulldozers have been deployed, alongside other armoured vehicles. there are also reports that a man was hit and killed by sniperfire in his home in the nur shams refugee camp. that's located near tulkarem, where the palestinian armed group, islamichhad, says one of its top commanders in the area was killed in mosque. there have also been reports of deaths in other parts of the west bank, including here, in tubas. the israeli military says it is targeting what it describes as terrorists, and has noted that it carried out an even larger operation injenin last year. the united nations has called for an immediate end to the operation, saying israel is fuelling an already explosive situation. our middle east correspondentjon donnison is injenin — he told us what the situation was like there. well here injenin, eight palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since yesterday. one person t

still this morning, this is ongoing injenin and tulkarem, the israeli raids there.itary has put out a statement saying that it's killed five members of palestinian armed groups who were hiding in a mosque we are going to interact out and go to beijing where jake sullivan is speaking. the to beijing where jake sullivan is s-ueakin. ~ , , to beijing where jake sullivan is s-ueakin. ~' , , ,, speaking. the key is responsible management — speaking. the key is responsible management through _ speaking. the key is responsible | management through diplomacy. beginning in may of last year that diplomacy has been an all hands on deck effort across the us government and cabinet, which has included four meetings between my self and china as well as engagements between secretary blinken and his counterparts and other cabinet secretaries and their counterparts. those discussions helped lay the foundation for a productive summit between resident biden and the chinese president in san francisco last year. our leaders agreed on concrete steps on issues that matter to the american p

this morning, the army pulled out of the camp in tulkarem.residents of a war. umm yazam said the army laid wires from this woman's home to blow up two houses opposite. families she has known for decades. translation: i have ten-year-old triplets | and they trapped us in a room and then they started the explosions. five explosions in total. imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. it feels like we are in gaza. we met fadwa, stranded by the rubble that used to be her neighbour's house. translation: they told us that we have tunnels - and we smuggled armed groups to this house. they claimed we have tunnels like those in gaza. they drilled and dug into the floor and all they found was a sewer drain. later she shows us the broken floor. beneath it what appears to be a drain. too small for a person to fit through. you hear a lot of comparisons here now with the war in gaza. this is still a very different situation but almost one year of the gaza war has changed attitudes and tactics on both sides. it has changed the sense of thr

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the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderousttacks have been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. almost 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank by israeli forces since the hamas attacks. but fighters here are still presenting israel with new tactics and new threats. israel's army has been targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. in al—far�*a camp, near tubas, mobile phone footage showed red crescent staff lined up against the wall of their compound in front of israeli troops. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when the

the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderousks have been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. israel's army has been targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when they talk about evacuating civilians and using the air force to bombing the camps. this reminds us of gaza. explosion. tonight, explosions and gunfire injenin�*s refugee camp. this city full of unmarked battlegrounds, roads and alleyways where armed palestinians test the army's control. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. yossi mekelberg,

at morning, hundreds of troops backed by armoured bulldozers arrived in the refugee camps of tulkaremus, tubas, jenin. home to armed palestinian groups and unarmed civilians. at least ten palestinians have been killed. hamas says six of them were its fighters. masoud naaja said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. translation: we felt like something came down on us from the sky - and there was an explosion. i was unaware of what was going on. when i put my hand on my chest, it was all shrapnel and blood. injenin, army vehicles surrounded the city's two main hospitals. ambulances stopped and checked by militaryjeeps. israel's foreign minister has urged his government to use gaza as a model for dealing wth armed groups, here saying that iran was backing them and that this was a war for everything that israel must win. the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderous attacks have been launched. the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, almost 600 palestinians have been kil

and much of the israeli operation seems to be in tulkarem and the refugee camp.he israeli military thing it killed five militants inside a mosque there. i killed five militants inside a mosque there.— mosque there. i know you heafina mosque there. i know you hearing anything - mosque there. i know you hearing anything about. mosque there. i know you hearing anything about a l hearing anything about a possible expansion of this military operation? it was in four cities yesterday. is there any sense that it might expand beyond that?— any sense that it might expand beyond that? welcome it we 'ust don't beyond that? welcome it we 'ust don-t know fl beyond that? welcome it we 'ust don't know the i beyond that? welcome it we 'ust don't know the answer �* beyond that? welcome it we 'ust don't know the answer to i beyond that? welcome it we just don't know the answer to that, i don't know the answer to that, to be honest. to be honest, it rains like we have seen in jenin and tulkarem and tubas over the past 2a hours have been happening on daily basis since the october the

we do know that there's been a lot of activity in some of the other places in nur shams camp in tulkaremvernight. there were five people killed in the operation there, including the head of the tulkarem brigades, mohammad jabbar, and he'd been on the israeli hit list for a long time. they tried to kill him several times before. he does now seem to have been killed, and also a palestinian authority police officer here injenin was one of two people we understand to have been killed overnight. and if those those deaths are confirmed, that will bring the total number of people killed so far in this operation to to 18. parents in the uk are being urged to ensure their children smoking could be banned and hospitals and sports clones. what have you heard from the government on this? we have you heard from the government on this? ~ . . , ~ on this? we already knew the government _ on this? we already knew the government was _ on this? we already knew the government was carrying - on this? we already knew the government was carrying on i on this? we already knew the . government was carrying on w

by morning, hundreds of troops backed by armoured bulldozers arrived in the refugee camps of tulkaremme to armed palestinian groups and unarmed civilians. at least ten palestinians have been killed. hamas says six of them were its fighters. masoud najjar said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. translation: we felt like something came down on us from the sky - and there was an explosion. i was unaware of what was going on. when i put my hand on my chest, it was all shrapnel and blood. injenin, army vehicles surrounded the city's two main hospitals. ambulances stopped and checked by militaryjeeps. israel's foreign minister has urged his government to use gaza as a model for dealing wth armed groups, here saying that iran was backing them and that this was a war for everything that israel must win. the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderous attacks have been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. almost 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank

presenting israel there were five people killed in the operation there, including the head of the tulkaremgades, mohammad jabbar, and he'd been on the israeli hit list for a long time. they tried to kill him several times before. he does now seem to have been killed, and also a palestinian authority police officer here injenin was one of two people we understand to have been killed overnight. and if those those deaths are confirmed, that will bring the total number of people killed so far in this operation to to 18. the rac is warning drivers to expect an increase in fuel duty. this potential increase could affect drivers as well as businesses. when petrol prices jumped after the pandemic and the russian invasion of ukraine the previous conservative government cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. this was to ease some pressure on drivers and since then it has been at 53 p. that is now growing speculation that the cap could be reversed in the budget. that would push fuel duty back up to 58p. that would raise an extra £2 billion a year. and would help plug the shortfall why the speculation? the prim

the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderousttacks have been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. almost 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank by israeli forces since the hamas attacks. but fighters here are still presenting israel with new tactics and new threats. israel's army has been targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. in al—far�*a camp, near tubas, mobile phone footage showed red crescent staff lined up against the wall of their compound in front of israeli troops. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when the

the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderousrrorism wherever it emerges. israel's army has been targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when they talk about evacuating civilians and using the air force to bombing the camps. this reminds us of gaza. explosion. tonight, explosions and gunfire injenin's refugee camp. this city full of unmarked battlegrounds, roads and alleyways where armed palestinians test the army's control. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. jeremy bowen is here with me. this does seem on the face of it to be

a lot of the focus is in tulkarem, as you say, which is a palestinian city to the west of here.g intojenin this morning, all but one road was closed, blocked off by the israeli army, and we were told and warned by palestinian taxi drivers that their cars were being shot at by israeli soldiers. israel, for its part, of course, says it's carrying out a counterterrorism operation and is trying to protect its citizens. normally this is a vibrant, bustling, busy city and today it is absolutely deserted. all the businesses virtually are shuttered up and no one is out on the streets. everyone is in their homes. as for how long it's going to go on, well, we don't really know. israel says, as i say, that they are determined to tackle militant groups here in the northern west bank. they say that they have been stockpiling weapons. israel alleges that those weapons are being funded by iran. and certainly when i was in tulkarem late last year, you do see people, militants with very, very sophisticated weapons, which cost a lot of money on the black market. now, people tell you that many of

that's located near tulkarem, where the palestinian armed group islamichhad says one of its top commanders

the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderousve been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. israel's army has been targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when they talk about evacuating civilians and using the air force to bombing the camps. this reminds us of gaza. explosion. tonight, explosions and gunfire injenin's refugee camp. this city full of unmarked battlegrounds, roads and alleyways where armed palestinians test the army's control. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. rina shah — former rep

in tulkarem, which isjust to the west of here, five militants were killed in a strike there, accordingisraeli military today. and i think israel will stop when it feels it's done what it set out to do. and that's despite quite a lot of international criticism from the rest of the world. we've had the secretary—general of the un saying this was a dangerous escalation. we've had the eu's foreign policy chief, josep borrell, threatening the possibility of sanctions on some far—right israeli ministers if the violence in the west bank continues, and the eu's humanitarian commissioner saying that this military operation carried out by israel could be a breach of international humanitarian law. that isjohn that is john dennison that isjohn dennison in the occupied west bank with the latest on the situation there. let's turn our attention back to gaza and the breaking news coming into us in the last hour orso coming into us in the last hour or so that the israeli military and hamas have allowed for three separate paused in fighting in the gaza strip to allow for a vaccination against polio cam

israel says five palestinian fighters were killed while hiding in a mosque in the city of tulkarem.ng what israel describes as "counter—terror raids". the palestinian armed group, islamichhad, says one of its top commanders is among those who have been killed. this is, israel's largest operation in the west bank in about two decades. earlier, the un secretary general called on israel to halt its major military operation in the north of the territory — immediately. in a separate development, the eu's top diplomatjosep borrell has accused some israeli government ministers of issuing hate messages

it launched this large-scale operation on the towns and refugee camps at janin, nabl, tubas and tulkaremnight on wednesday. we were earlier joined by our... correspondent to get further details regarding the israeli rates into the occupied west bank cities. let's take a listen to what she had to say. now the resistance groups in gen refugee camp, bridges and have announced that indeed there has been a big big resistance operation causing the death of one. of soldier and the injury of four others as the as these battalions and these brigades have announced also has announced the two the names of the two marters who have performed this this operation muhammad abu thalal and amjad alqnezi and the the palestinian red cross christ society have also announced that the bodies of these two marters are indeed held by the iof and they would not let the medical staff from the prc to claim the body of these two martters and with this with the martium of these two palestinian resistance fighter the fighters the toll of the death for palestinians since last wednesday rises up to 22 and more than 50 pa

the attack itself was coordinated or the network that planned, coordinated the attack, was from tulkaremis exact camp that is being sealed off by the idf. israel says this is about iran trying to create a new front in the war, about smuggling in weapons, but for those on the ground, they will tell you this is not about supporting another country. this is about resisting the israeli occupation. one of the senior hamas officials on the political side said today or said yesterday, rather, in turkey, he called on palestinians and their supporters to resume suicide bombings in the occupied west bank. of course here suicide bombings, people will remember, the violence of the years of the second intifada. the u.n., the secretary general, urging deescalation and warning this is fueling an already explosive situation. >> danielle, thank you so much. >>> and today, israeli families with loved ones still being held by hamas in gaza are seen in a gut-wrenching new video. the hostage families forum described this heartbreaking moment showing a group of men and women holding pictures of their loved on

all of them in the northern part of the west bank jeanine to tuberous tulkarem and we are seeing yet more images coming in this morning that is showing that those operations are ongoing. but at this point, there is no clear indication how long it might last. rosemary. >> now, thanks to paula hancocks joining us live from abu dhabi with that report the eu israeli military says it has recovered the body of a soldier abducted on october 7 and held hostage in gaza. the prime minister's office and the hostage families say they are currently 107 hostages living and dead being held in gaza. meanwhile, newly freed hostage, farhan al-qadi says, he hopes the war in gaza ends for all palestinian and israeli families are 52-year-old bedouin israeli citizens spoke with reporters as he was released from the hospital on wednesday, is family says food was scarce and al-qadi loss 65 pounds. that's 30 kilograms in captivity they say he was held in isolation the entire time and did not meet any other hostages are the pain is the same pain, whether it is palestinian, jewish, or bedouin. >> god made us h

that's near tulkarem — where the israeli military say they killed five palestinian fighters who had hiddenuhammed jabber. deaths have also been reported in the city of tubas. it comes as israeli forces fight on two other fronts — against hamas in gaza, and hezbollah, along the lebanon border. our middle east correspondent jon donnison has more on the impact of the israeli military operation injenin. this israeli military operation does seem to be ongoing. it's been quite a lot quieter here today injenin, but since yesterday, eight palestinians have been killed, including one this morning. and just in the last few hours, we heard a couple of loud explosions as well as some fairly prolonged bursts of gunfire. now, israel says that it is carrying out counterterrorism operations against palestinian militants. it says those groups are funded by iran. palestinians see this as an aggression and an escalation. and certainly getting intojenin this morning was pretty difficult. all the major roads had been blocked off by the israeli army, bar one, and we spoke to local palestinian taxi drivers who s

they focused on jenin, tulkarem and the far out refugee camp near tubas. palestinian health authorities say at least ten people have been killed. fighting in the west bank isn't new. for years palestinians in the west bank have suffered regular sometimes deadly harassment from israeli settlers, violence human rights groups say has been ignored and in some cases even encouraged by israel's government. palestinian isra health authorities say more than 660 palestinians have been killed there since hamas' october 7th attacks from gaza where today israel's operations continue. idf troops recovered the body of a soldier who had been killed during last year's attacks, and the world food program saying this vehicle was shot up while approaching a checkpoint. the organization saying they're temporarily suspending operations in gaza. now, as violence in the west bank intensifies, concerns it could come to resemble a new theater of war. matt bradley, nbc news, tel aviv. >>> back here at home to that tragedy in north texas where authorities say four people were killed

it launched this large-scale operation on the towns and refugee camps at janin, nablu, tubas and tulkarem overnight on wednesday. there seems to be no end in sight to the israely aggression in the occupied west bank. the occupation forces have detained several citizens in the janin refugee camp and used them as human shields. local sources reported that the israeli military conducted a wide-scale detention operation in jeren involving house rates and searches. palestinian officials said the regime prevented the delivery of water into the jane hospital where palestinians wounded are being treated. the hospital administrator warned that they might face a halt in their services if the blockade continues. the hospital has been struggling with severe water shortage for four days now because of the israel regime's destriction of the main water supply line. the yemani armed forces have carried out a fresh operation against an israeli link ship in retaliation for the regime's ongoing genocide in the gaza strip. the yemani armed forces carried out a military operation targeting the ship goten in t

now, the cities of tulkarem, jenin and several other smaller towns in the west bank have been the subject of massive incursions by the idf. now, israeli officials troublingly have said that there may be necessary to evacuate some people, which is starting to look like the west bank, where more than 300 people have been killed since those october 7th attacks last year. it might be starting to resemble the military actions going on in the gaza strip and on israel's northern border with lebanon, but this is a situation that the israelis are blaming on iran, like those other fronts that i just mentioned. they're saying that iran is smuggling weapons to militants in the west bank. and given the seriousness of the situation, it's unclear how long this is going to last, but it looks as though it could be a while before the israeli military says they're finished with their operations there. matt bradley, nbc news, beersheba, israel. well now to a live look at sfo. this is where labor day travel is expected to hit record levels. and as many people take to the skies or even hit the roads, you will

israel says five palestinian fighters were killed while hiding in a mosque in the city of tulkarem.arlier, palestinian officials said at least 11 people had been killed during what israel describes as "counter—terror raids". the palestinian armed group, islamichhad, says one of its top commanders is among those who have been killed. this is, israel's largest operation in the west bank in about two decades. earlier, the un secretary general called on israel to halt its major military operation in the north of the territory — immediately. in a separate development, the eu's top diplomatjosep borrell has accused some israeli government ministers of issuing hate messages against palestinians and proposing ideas that are against international law. he said he was consulting eu members on whether to impose sanctions on these ministers. well other members in brussells have backed mr borrell�*s suggestion including ireland's minister for foreign affairs, mihall martin. well, we will be supporting josep borrel�*s recommendation for sanctions in respect of settler organisations in the west ban

the attack, saying four other people were also killed when a vehicle was struck near the city of tulkaremes as the us says it's stepping up america's military presence in the middle east, deploying additional warships and fighterjets as regional tension grows. the department of defence says it aims to strengthen protection for us troops in the region and israel in response to growing threats from iran and iranian—backed fighters. iran and its allies have promised imminent retaliation against israel. an announcer on iran state tv said on friday night that "in the coming hours, the world would witness extraordinary scenes and very important developments". the announcement came after a funeral ceremony in qatar for the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh, who was killed in iran on wednesday. hamas and iran have vowed revenge for the strike that targeted mr haniyeh. from tel aviv, our correspondent jenny hill has this update. the us has said that it will send an extra squadron of fighterjets to the region, as well as warships, stating that america's commitment to israel's defence is "ironc

occupied west bank since the war in gaza began october 7, airstrikes near a cluster of northern towns tulkarem jeanine, and to bask. backed by hundreds of troops and border police on the ground the idf says it's a counter terrorism operation intended to thwart what they claim is that systematic strategy in iran to smuggle weapons and explosives into the west bank outside jeanine, a drone strike killing three men in a vehicle in the idf claims are terrorists. and seriously wounding another near to bus. the idf says another airstrike killed for terrorists. this resident caught in a blast one felony in seconds it in very fast. >> we felt like something came down on us from the sky and there was an explosion when i put my hand on my chest it was all shrapnel and in blood between the idf also arresting people and surrounding hospitals including geneina, main hospital, had been sinner. >> they said to prevent terrorists using it as a base palestinian ambulances also appearing to be targeted by the idf amid claims, staff were beaten. >> will see lammy the occupation army has clearly targeting medical

the attack, saying four other people were also killed when a vehicle was struck near the city of tulkarem

israeli troo, israeli border police officers, all ratintwo key palestinian cities of jeanine and tulkaremas well as the surrounding area. >> not only are they accompanied by9 bulldozers that are tearing up the streets in these areas out of concern for potential ieds. but there also getting support via air strikes from the air, at least ten people are dead according to the palestinian ministry of health, the israeli military says that it is carrying out these raids for two key reasons. the first of which is they believed that iran is trying to flood the west bank with additional weaponthat's an assessment that we've heard and they also say that aumberl. of recent attacks against iseli soldiers and civilians have been caied by militants stemming fm these two cities in the west bank. this isn't happening in a vacuum. of course, we know that since october 7, there have been near daily raids by the israeli military in the west it's bank. and there have also been a number of attacks against israeli soldiers in the west bank of from palestinian militants. and more recently, there was also this f

targeting two key palestinian cities in the northern part of the occupied west bank, geneina in an tulkarem as well as the surrounding area and refugee camps in that area. and not only are they sending troops in their equipped with d9 bulldozers that are tearing up the streets in both of those cities. but we're also seeing airstrikes that have resulted in several deaths already this is of course not happening in a vacuum seeing since october 7, the israeli military has been carrying out in your daily raids. there airstrikes, which were once rare in the west bank have now become commonplace. but this appears to be larger scale than what we've typically seen in the west bank. and we've also seen israeli troops apparently surrounding and blocking several hospitals. according to the palestinian officials. but the israeli military says they're doing that to prevent palestinian militants from going into those hospitals and using them. what is clear though already ten people are dead and these operations still ongoing. >> and then jeremy and gaza, where the war of course, continues to rage, you've

in the palestinian city of tulkarem, israel killed one man.t says was behind some of those attacks. muhammad jabber and islamic jihad commander. >> but i'll razi hospital in geneina, the victims of israel's raids are also children like 15-year-old who sommer, who tried to leave his home to buy bread. russia today i took two steps and they started firing it mean sama says two rounds of gunfire, one bullet came here and one bullet came here and did you see any soldiers before you got shot know? >> he says he now faces a long recovery and the life trapped in this seemingly endless liz cycle of violence and while there's currently no end in sight for those israeli military operations in the west bank, gaza is expected to see some brief reprieve, at least in certain areas, there will be humanitarian pauses in order to try and allow for the distribution and administration of the vaccine for polio where we just learned that there has been a confirmed case in the strip for the first time in 25 years, alex and our jeremy diamond, thanks. >> we'll be ri