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Israel\u2019s military said on Wednesday that it was pressing ahead with what it called a new counterterrorism operation<\/a> in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Palestinian officials said that at least 10 people had been killed.<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for the military said that 10 militants were \u201chit\u201d in the operation, without giving further details. Earlier, Israel said that it had killed eight militants since the start of the raid. The Palestinian health ministry said that 10 people had been killed in Jenin and its outskirts since the start of the raid.<\/p>\n At least four people were injured Wednesday in Jenin, where the new rash of raids were focused, according to Palestinian officials cited by Wafa, the Palestinian Authority\u2019s official news agency. Other West Bank cities were also targeted in raids.<\/p>\n The Palestinian Authority\u2019s commission of prisoners\u2019 affairs said that Israeli forces had arrested at least 25 Palestinians across the West Bank since Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Enhanced security at Israeli checkpoints across the territory slowed or stopped traffic; in one case a 45-year-old woman died at a checkpoint outside Hebron while waiting to be allowed to go to a hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n In Jenin, Mayor Mohammad Jarar told Wafa that Israeli forces had held as many as 600 people overnight at the Jenin Governmental Hospital, but that they were allowed to leave Wednesday morning. The news agency described Israeli bulldozers blocking the hospital\u2019s doors with dirt from nearby streets.<\/p>\n Mahmoud al-Saadi, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jenin, said that patients who had been evacuated were led to a checkpoint to be searched and that their identification cards were checked before they were allowed to pass. Some people were detained there, Mr. al-Saadi said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe situation is very difficult,\u201d Muhammad al-Masri, a resident and former member of the local committee that administers Jenin\u2019s refugee camp, said in an interview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Mr. al-Masri said his family fled their home when the Israeli raid began, because \u201cthere\u2019s no water or electricity.\u201d He said that Israeli forces had divided parts of Jenin into blocks, and began ordering people in several to evacuate while the men were detained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Jarar also said people had been forced to leave their homes, a claim that Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, denied. \u201cThere\u2019s no evacuation order in Jenin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Briefing reporters about the operation, Colonel Shoshani said people at Jenin Governmental Hospital were held temporarily to ensure they were not hurt by explosives that the military was detonating nearby. <\/p>\n Since a temporary cease-fire took hold in Gaza over the weekend, Israel has turned its attention to the West Bank, where tensions have risen as militants have grown in power and Israeli settler violence against Palestinian civilians has soared.<\/p>\n Colonel Shoshani said the operation in the West Bank was similar in scope to one that the military carried out in August<\/a>. That 10-day raid in Jenin killed 21 people, according to Palestinian news media and residents. It was one of the most extensive and deadly raids in the West Bank in years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The colonel said the operation was Israel\u2019s latest effort to curb militant attacks, many of which involved improvised explosives that had been planted under both civilian streets and Israeli military vehicles.<\/p>\n \u201cOur strategy is to fight those terrorists while we enable the civilian population to go on with their lives,\u201d Colonel Shoshani said. <\/p>\n The Jenin battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs\u2019 Brigades, an armed group loosely affiliated with Fatah, the political faction that controls the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement on social media that its fighters were engaged in \u201cfierce clashes\u201d with Israeli forces in several areas of Jenin and had detonated explosive devices.<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Nebal Farsakh, said that Israeli forces continue \u201cto impose a tight siege on Jenin camp and the surrounding neighborhoods\u201d that have stopped ambulances from reaching wounded people. Additionally, she said, Israel\u2019s military had fired warning shots at ambulances on Tuesday.<\/p>\n