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The Star-Ledger · 4 July 2023

CP-2023-044

Israeli forces invade West Bank city of Jenin

Associated Press, Jenin, West Bank

Israeli forces invade West Bank city of Jenin — The Star-Ledger, 4 July 2023
The Star-Ledger · 4 July 2023

Transcribed from the clipping

“JENIN, West Bank — Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early Monday, with drone strikes and hundreds of troops pushing into a refugee camp… At least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded… National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote on social media: ‘Praying for their success.’… Jamal Huweil, a political activist in the camp, said the residents would not leave… U.N. humanitarian coordinator Lynn Hastings said she was ‘alarmed by the scale’… Israel has occupied the West Bank for 56 years…”

Context added by this archive

The verb in this headline is invade. No other American paper in this archive uses it for that week’s operation; the others say targets, raid, or offensive.

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"Israeli forces invade West Bank city of Jenin," The Star-Ledger, 4 July 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-044. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-044

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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