The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) condemns, in the strongest terms, the renewed Israeli attacks against the Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that killed at least nine Palestinians.

Israel’s mass-killings of Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp show a dangerous trajectory of violence in the occupied West Bank, continuing the alarming upward trend from previous years.

On the morning of 26 January, Israeli forces conducted a raid in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. They fired live ammunition, killing at least nine Palestinians, including one elderly woman and two children. Over 20 people were injured and four of them remain in critical condition.

This is the highest number of people killed in a single operation in the West Bank since 2005.

So far this year, 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and two more by settlers in the occupied West Bank. This brings the death toll to more than one Palestinian a day.

PRC calls upon the world governments to end their complicity with Israel’s ongoing criminal violation of Palestinian rights.

The international community cannot and should not tolerate what appears to reflect Israel’s deliberate policy and practice of using lethal force without regard for limits set by international law.