For over a year, Israel has launched regular raids into the occupied West Bank targeting

armed groups of Palestinians.

This week's attack was different.

Tonight, the Middle East, on edge, is really forces carrying out their largest military

occupation in the occupied West Bank city of Janine in more than 20 years.

Lithuania strikes and hundreds of troops on the ground.

Palestinian officials say the two-day attack on the Janine refugee camp has left at least

12 Palestinians dead and 100 injured.

Israel claims at least 10 of the killed were militants.

One Israeli soldier was killed too.

The director at the Janine government hospital says medical teams have been working around

the clock treating the wounded.

You see?

You can't hear it, I think, yes?

That was Noras, a nurse in the hospital who says he heard repeated sounds of gunfire

over the past two days as the fighting took place nearby.

On Wednesday, Israel said its military operation was complete.

And to hear Israel tell it, the raid was targeted, focused on militants, not civilians.

I think we're doing the best we can to minimize the harm of non-combatants and minimize

the population to suffer from the situation that terror was embedded in that camp.

That was Chief Army spokesman Daniel Hagarri of the Israel Defense Forces in an interview

with NPR from Tuesday evening as the incursion was wrapping up.

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