Israeli forces have conducted drone airstrikes and engaged in major gun battles in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
Several suspected Hamas fighters have been killed, in what the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said was an operation to locate improvised explosive devices planted by terrorists.
It comes just a day after a Sky News team travelled to Jenin, where they met a Hamas fighter who vowed they would not stop their violence – and said they fully supported the 7 October attacks.
The war in Gaza has come to the West Bank, and Jenin refugee camp is at the centre of it. The IDF is conducting almost daily raids there, clashing with newly emboldened militants who say they’re stronger and better organised than ever.
Everywhere you go, there are posters celebrating the fighters. Many in the camp view them as heroes defending their own land, not terrorists killing civilians.
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This Hamas fighter openly defended the attacks of 7 October
‘Everyone was proud and I am proud’
On the outskirts of the camp is what locals call the graveyard of martyrs – home to many who died trying to end Israeli occupation.
It’s where we meet a Hamas fighter, carrying a rifle, wearing a mask, but openly defending the attacks of 7 October.
‘Everyone was proud and I am proud,” he tells me. “We feel that it’s the first step in the way of liberating our country and the blood of our children is not wasted…
“I see it from my side, as a Palestinian. It was supposed to happen a long time before.”
As someone who has spent time in the Forensic Centre in Tel Aviv, seeing images of torture and extreme brutality, it is both shocking and deeply unsettling to hear.
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Like the rest of the world it seems, he too was not expecting the attacks – but pleased they took place.
“I was surprised, everybody was. No one can imagine or expect that we will reach a point that we are attacking, not only fighting back and defending.”
He has