Al Jazeera Arabic and local media have reported clashes overnight between the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Israeli forces in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli military vehicles, which stormed Jenin overnight tonight and began demolishing structures, have been targeted with explosive devices and gunfire. Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from the city.

Raids and arrests have been reported in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem; a man was arrested in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem, a father and his son were arrested in the village of Bitello, west of Ramallah and two men were arrested in the towns of Qaryut and Beita, south of Nablus.

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