Two Palestinians killed as Israel attacks West Bank city of Jenin

Israel's military has launched air raids on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, dropping missiles from helicopters and killing at least two Palestinians as well as wounding 10 others, according to officials and witnesses. Residents said at least four Israeli air attacks hit buildings in Jenin early on Monday, sending smoke billowing up from the wreckage, and reported spotting a convoy of Israeli armoured vehicles moving towards the city's vast refugee camp. "There is bombing from the air and an invasion from the ground," Mahmoud al-Saadi, the director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jenin, told the AFP news agency. "Several houses and sites have been bombed…. The Palestinian health ministry said the raids killed at least two people and wounded 10, one of whom was in critical condition. The Israeli military said in a statement that it struck a "joint operations centre", which served as a command centre for the Jenin Brigades, a unit comprised of fighters from different Palestinian armed groups. The raids on Monday came after Israeli forces killed three gunmen near Jenin in the first drone assault on the West Bank since 2006. Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said the Israeli military also announced the arrest of several "wanted Palestinians and the seizure of explosive devices". "Now, these are homemade Palestinian explosives that wounded eight Israeli soldiers during last month's Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.