military raid in the occupied west bank on thursday in which nine palestinians both fighters and civilians were killed. israeli security forces say they entered a refugee camp injenin to arrest members of the armed group islamichhad, who they accuse of planning a major attack. it s been the deadliest day in the west bank for several years. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from the scene. heavily armed israeli forces arriving in this crowded urban refugee camp. there were explosions. ..and gunfire. in three hours of fierce battles with palestinian militants. sirens wail. ambulances struggled to reach the mounting palestinian casualties. still smouldering, the israeli army said it targeted islamichhad militants hiding out here acting on intelligence that they were planning
against palestinian militants in gaza after two rockets were fired into israel. both rockets were intercepted by israeli air defence systems. the scale of the bombing in gaza is not yet clear. tensions have escalated in the region following an israeli military raid in the occupied west bank on thursday in which nine palestinians, both fighters and civilians, were killed. israeli security forces say they entered a refugee camp injenin to arrest members of the armed group islamichhad, who they accuse of planning a major attack. it s been the deadliest day in the west bank for several years. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from the scene. heavily armed israeli forces arriving in this crowded urban refugee camp. there were explosions and gunfire in three hours of fierce battles with palestinian militants. sirens wail ambulances struggled to reach the mounting palestinian casualties. still smouldering, the israeli army says it targeted islamichhad
intercepted over southern israel. tensions have escalated in the region following an israeli military raid in the occupied west bank on thursday in which nine palestinians both fighters and civilians were killed. israeli security forces say they entered a refugee camp injenin to arrest members of the armed group islamic jihad. they accuse them of planning a major attack. it s been the deadliest day in the west bank for several years. 0ur middle east correspondent yoland knell reports from the scene. heavily armed israeli forces arriving in this crowded urban refugee camp. there were explosions and gunfire in three hours of fierce battles with palestinian militants. sirens wail. ambulances struggled to reach the mounting palestinian casualties. still smouldering, the israeli army says it targeted islamichhad militants hiding out here, acting on intelligence that they were planning major attacks.
crowded urban refugee camp. there were explosions and gunfire in three hours of fierce battles with palestinian militants. sirens wail ambulances struggled to reach the mounting palestinian casualties. still smouldering, the israeli army says it targeted islamichhad militants hiding out here, acting on intelligence that they were planning major attacks. three men were killed in this house and another arrested. just coming inside, you can see how rooms have been reduced to rubble and there s still this acrid smell of burning, and i ve seen a lot of blood in here. one woman on this street was killed by a stray bullet. a neighbour, aisha abu al naj, tells me she and herfamily were terrified. translation: there is no safety. we re not only afraid about ourselves, but about our children.
sirens wail extraordinarily, just two people were hurt, neither of them seriously. the hotel actually shook inside. i could describe it as a. imitates explosion. and ijolted out of bed and turned around. i didn t see any movement so i didn t know what the heck was going on. i looked outside the window, i saw a lady running. investigators are trying to establish what went wrong. look at this footage, taken when the aquarium was first built. you could fire a gun at the tank, says this architect, and it would only cause a small hole, not burst the whole cylinder. such a hollywood scenario is impossible. the authorities suspect material fatigue may be to blame, but they re not yet sure. there is a sense, i think, of relief amongst many here that this happened when it did. an hour or so later and that lobby, the street outside the hotel, would ve been packed with visitors,