Fatah: “We will fight”
Headline: “Fatah: We will fight together with the Palestinian factions in the operation of aggression against Jenin and we will thwart it”
“Early this morning, Monday [July 3, 2023], Fatah Movement Spokesman Mundhir Al-Hayek said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘is directly supervising the operation of aggression in Jenin’ (refers to Israeli counter-terror operation that began on the night of July 2, 2023 -Ed.).
In statements to [Lebanese] Al-Mayadeen TV, he added: ‘All of the security solutions with which Netanyahu is attempting to achieve profits will not succeed.’
He continued: ‘We say to the Israeli enemy that Fatah, and all the Palestinian factions together with it, will fight in the operation of aggression against Jenin and will thwart it.’
Al-Hayek noted that ‘through the operation of aggression against Jenin, Netanyahu is attempting to divert attention from his internal crises.’”
[Donia Al-Watan, independent Palestinian news agency, July 3, 2023]
2023 Operation Home and Garden - an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin that lasted from July 3-5, 2023. The operation targeted terror infrastructure in the city, and particularly the Islamic Jihad-affiliated terror group the Jenin Brigade, after 50 terror attacks had originated from the city and 19 terrorists had fled to it since the start of 2023. Israeli soldier David Yehuda Yitzhak, 23, was killed during the operation, while at least 18 Palestinian terrorists were killed and over 300 terror suspects were arrested. During the operation, Israeli forces attacked a terror headquarters located next to a medical clinic and two schools, one of them belonging to UNRWA. Several weapons factories were discovered containing hundreds of explosives and weapons caches. Terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces from within a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, and after gaining control of the site, the Israeli forces discovered weapons caches including explosives and entrances to underground tunnels in the mosque's basement.