A pair of IDF airstrikes in the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp earlier this week set back negotiations that were on the verge of a truce agreement between the Palestinian Authority and armed terror groups in the northern West Bank city that would have seen the latter hand over their weapons to the PA in exchange for immunity, two Palestinian officials familiar with the matter tell The Times of Israel. The strikes targeted some of the terror leaders that the PA has been operating against for over a month. The PA has been carrying out an unprecedented counterterrorism raid, largely targeting the refugee camp's so-called Jenin Battalion, whose fighters are largely affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. The IDF held off on conducting any strikes or raids in Jenin when the PA began its raid there last month but ended that policy this week.
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