The Israeli military has blown up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in an operation that the Palestinian state news agency said levelled around 20 buildings, Reuters reports.

Jenin Government Hospital Director Wisam Baker told the Palestinian state news agency that part of the hospital was damaged in the explosions but that there had been no casualties.

Footage capturing the demolitions showed a series of simultaneous explosions in the densely populated camp.

Thick clouds of smoke rose above the Palestinian city where Israeli forces have been conducting a major military operation for nearly two weeks that the military insists targets Palestinian fighters and the seizure of weapons stockpiles.

The Israeli military said 23 structures had been “dismantled” in the northern West Bank after explosives laboratories, weapons and observation posts were uncovered.