Kheetan, of the UN human rights office, described Israel’s recent assault in the area as a “deadly operation and labelled the whole ordeal as an “unnecessary or disproportionate use of force”

The Israel Defense Forces insisted it was “not forcing the Palestinians to evacuate,” but said it had “allowed residents of the camp to evacuate … through an organized and secured point.”

The city of Jenin, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has become a new front for Israel days after it reached a ceasefire deal with Hamas that suspended a 15-month-old war in Gaza.