WEST BANK (Dispatches) – At least eight Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others injured in the Zionist regime’s attacks on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Tuesday.

The identity of those killed was not immediately clear. The health ministry added that 35 people have been injured in the regime’s incursion.

The Israeli Army announced earlier on Tuesday that troops have launched an aggression, but gave no further details.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces stated in a statement that the occupying regime’s troops “opened fire on civilians and security forces, resulting in injuries to several civilians and a number of security personnel”.

The development comes after United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order lifting sanctions against violent Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Trump issued the order, among a slew of controversial moves, as he returned to the White House on Monday. The sanctions were imposed by his predecessor, former president Joe Biden, via an executive order in February.

Biden’s actions paved the way for the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury to sanction several far-right individuals and groups accused of perpetrating violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, which the Zionist regime has occupied since 1967 despite international law, freezing their U.S. assets and barring U.S. bodies and individuals from commercial relationships with them.

As much of the world’s attention has focused on the war in Gaza, growing violence by Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank and land grabs in the occupied territory have raised concerns among some of Israel’s Western allies.

On Monday and Tuesday, settlers set vehicles and properties on fire under the protection of occupying regime troops. At least 21 Palestinians were reported to have been injured.

Since the Zionist regime’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, at least 860 Palestinians, including 175 children, have been killed and more than 6,700 wounded in attacks by the regime’s army and settlers across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

“Lifting sanctions on extremist settlers encourages them to commit more crimes against our people,” the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

 

‘Not Confident Ceasefire Will Be Upheld’

 

Trump also said Monday that he is not confident that the Gaza ceasefire deal will be upheld, adding it is “not our war.”

Asked during a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on the first day of his inauguration how confident he is that the deal will hold through all three phases, Trump responded: “I’m not confident. It’s not our war. It’s their war. I think they are very weakened on the other side.”

“I looked at a picture of Gaza. Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is…It’s really got to be rebuilt in a different way,” he continued.

“Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location on the sea, best weather, you know, everything’s good. It’s like some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting, but some fantastic things could be done with Gaza,” Trump added.