News Center- Israeli forces, backed by helicopters and armored bulldozers, began the assault on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on January 21, two days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in Gaza.

 At least 25 Palestinians, a 73-year-old man and a two-year-old girl, have been killed since the Israeli military operation began in Jenin, the Palestinian officials said on Sunday.

The Israeli military blew up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Sunday.

“In a split second yesterday, large swathes of Jenin camp were completely destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli Security Forces,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement on Monday.

 “Residents of the camp have endured the impossible, facing nearly two months of unceasing and escalating violence. In the last months, Jenin camp has been rendered a ghost town. On a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of the new school semester for thousands of children, 13 schools in the northern West Bank remained closed due to ISF operations in the area. Today’s shocking scenes in the West Bank undermine the fragile ceasefire reached in Gaza, and risk a new escalation.”