Six Palestinians said killed in fresh IDF airstrike in West Bank’s Jenin
Attack comes a day after another 6 Palestinians, including at least 4 Hamas gunmen, were killed in strike on the city; overnight, three IDF troops hurt by roadside bomb
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday evening, Palestinian medical officials said.
The strike came a day after another strike in Jenin left six other Palestinians dead.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had carried out the strike on Wednesday in a joint operation with the Shin Bet security agency. It said further details would be provided later.
The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry named the six Palestinians killed on Wednesday as Muhammad Araarawi, 33, Ahmad Araarawi, 37, Mahmoud Fayyad, 22, Osama Abu Droubi, 26, Mustafa Fayyad, 26, and Awad Abu Zaid, 27.
Images posted to social media appeared to show Mustafa Fayyad brandishing firearms, indicating he was a member of a terror group in Jenin.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both terror groups have a significant presence in Jenin.
5 شهدlء في قـ.ـصف استـهـدف مخيم جنين، وهم:
– مصطفى محمد فياض
– أسامة الدروبي تركمان
– أحمد ياسين عرعراوي
– محمد يونس عرعراوي
– محمود أحمد فياض pic.twitter.com/OsfSo7cxSU— ق.ض (@Qadeyah1) January 15, 2025
On Tuesday evening, the IDF carried out a drone strike in Jenin that killed another six Palestinians, four of whom were later claimed by Hamas as members of the terror group.
The strikes come amid a campaign by the PA to clamp down on terror factions in the northern West Bank city.
Palestinian security forces entered Jenin in early December and set up checkpoints around the city and adjacent refugee camp, hoping to strengthen the PA’s position before a shakeup of Palestinian politics that is expected once the Gaza war sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 terror onslaught ends.
The operation has deepened splits among Palestinians in the West Bank, where the PA enjoys little popular support, but where many fear being dragged into a Gaza-style conflict with Israel if terror groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad strengthen their hold.
At least 13 people have been killed in Jenin since the counterterrorism mission began, including six Palestinian security officers and one gunman, officials say.
In a separate incident overnight, three IDF soldiers were injured, two seriously and one lightly, by a roadside bomb in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, close to Jenin, the military said on Wednesday morning
The soldiers were in a light armored vehicle when it was hit by a bomb planted in the area by Palestinian gunmen.
The soldiers, of the Kfir Brigade and Menashe Regional Brigade, were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.