RABAT, December 15. /TASS/. The Palestinian government condemns Israel’s raid on the West Bank city of Jenin and the eponymous refugee camp, which left 12 Palestinians dead and dozens injured, as an attempt to provoke more violence in the West Bank, Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
"The Israeli occupation authorities continue their bloody aggression and massacres against Palestinian people, their land, and their sanctities, in an attempt to detonate the situation and drag the region into the area of killing and destruction, to implement its plans for annexation, displacement, and annihilation of the Palestinian people," the official was quoted as saying by the WAFA news agency.
"The US administration bears the consequences of this ongoing aggression, and must intervene immediately to stop this Israeli madness, which Netanyahu explicitly expressed when he indicated a strong Israeli desire to ignite the West Bank, including East Jerusalem," Abu Rudeineh said.
Along with its sweeping military operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces is also regularly conducts operations and raids involving heavy military equipment in the cities of the West Bank, including Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus and Hebron.