Israel says it is expanding its military offensive across the occupied West Bank and preparing for troops to remain in some refugee camps “for the next year”.  For more than a month, Israeli forces have been raiding Palestinian homes and using bulldozers to destroy critical infrastructure. The Israeli army said tanks have been deployed in Jenin for the first time in the West Bank since the end of the second Intifada, or uprising, in 2005. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the decision to deploy tanks in the northern West Bank, saying it is a dangerous Israeli escalation that will not lead to stability or calm. 

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