Smoke rises from the site of several explosions during an Israeli raid on the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees on February 2, 2025.    (AFP)

Ramallah, February 3 (RHC)-- Israeli military forces continue their deadly offensive in the West Bank, unleashing massive explosions in the Jenin refugee camp that have destroyed up to 20 homes in a single residential neighborhood.

Palestinian official news agency WAFA said the regime’s forces "simultaneously detonated about 20 buildings" in the eastern part of the Jenin refugee camp on Sunday.  It said the "explosions were heard throughout Jenin city and parts of the neighboring towns.”

The regime launched a major offensive in Jenin on January 21st, just after the start of a long-awaited ceasefire deal between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in Gaza.  It claimed that the offensive was “part of the operation to thwart terrorism” in the occupied Palestinian territory.

In the meantime, witnesses reported a "large" deployment of Israeli forces in the morning around the towns of Tubas and Tamun, southeast of Jenin.  They said that the military was blocking the exits of the nearby Faraa refugee camp and entering homes, evicting residents.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, the regime forces killed two people in separate incidents in the West Bank on Sunday.  A 73-year-old man was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp, adjacent to the city.

Another Palestinian, 27, was killed in the Al-Aroub camp, in the southern West Bank, according to the health ministry and Palestinian Red Crescent.

The United Nations has warned that deadly Israeli raids on Jenin risk killing more people and destroying essential infrastructure.

The regime’s forces and settlers have killed at least 883 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the regime’s genocidal war in Gaza in October 2013, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

[ SOURCE:  PRESS TV and AFP NEWS AGENCY ]