Locals across cities and towns in the occupied West Bank confirmed to Al Jazeera that three strikes took place in three different locations overnight, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports.

Nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, but the Israeli army is talking about an operation that could last for days — it is considered the largest since 2002 when Israeli forces raided different cities all across the occupied West Bank during the Second Intifada, Ibrahim says.

She has observed a similar situation where hundreds of troops are involved in this major military operation.

The Jenin governor said that the director of one of the city’s hospitals was informed that the Israeli army intends to raid the medical facility and that’s why they have ordered them to evacuate the facility, she adds.

This is a hospital with 200 employees and 150 patients and we have seen how undercover Israeli units manage to get inside hospitals and arrest or kill Palestinians, Ibrahim reports.