Israeli military left Jenin. Hamas: 'enemy flees humiliated'

The Israeli army withdrew its troops from Jenin, which has become a new resistance stronghold in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, ending a two-day invasion that killed at least 13 Palestinians, drove thousands from their homes and left a trail of damage. The head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh, congratulated his people on the resistance's victory in Jenin and said, "The Zionist enemy fled Jenin humiliated. "Some 3,000 Palestinians have left the Jenin refugee camp since the Zionist enemy began the largest large-scale military operation

in at least 20 years in the occupied West Bank that has so far resulted in the martyrdom of 11 Palestinian civilians and the wounding of 100 others. The news was confirmed by the Palestinian Red Crescent, which adds how arrangements are already being made to house these people in schools and other shelters in the city. Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, confirmed that camp residents were leaving their homes. About 18,000 people lived in the camp. 

Palestinian National Authority leader Abu Mazen called on the UN and the international community "to intervene urgently to force Israel to stop the evacuation of the residents" of the Jenin refugee camp. "A crime" that "adds to the crimes of the occupation." It was also decided "to stop all contacts and meetings with Israel and to continue to disrupt security coordination." For its part, the Israeli army vehemently denied that it had ordered residents to leave the site and called the news "baseless."