During nearly 10 hours of fighting, Israeli security forces faced off against Palestinian militants with gunfire, armoured bulldozers and missile fire
The Israeli military said that helicopters fired at Palestinian gunmen as security forces tried to extract damaged vehicles from the camp.
Palestinian militants targeted Israeli military vehicles with a powerful roadside bomb, disabling five armoured vehicles, said Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht. Israeli troops were trapped inside the mangled vehicles for hours, he said, adding that the army flooded the camp with troops and heavy vehicles in order to evacuate them.A freelance journalist, Hazem Nasser, wearing a clearly marked press vest was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded.
The escalation was the latest in more than a year of near-daily violence that has wracked the West Bank. Israel and the Palestinians have been gripped by months of violence, focused mainly in the West Bank, where some 124 Palestinians have been killed this year. The city of Jenin has been a hotbed of Palestinian militancy.
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