The Israeli military blew up several buildings in the occupied West Bank on Sunday in a series of simultaneous explosions that the Palestinian state news agency said had leveled around 20 buildings in the Jenin refugee camp.

The Israeli military blew up several buildings in the occupied West Bank in a series of simultaneous explosions that the Palestinian state news agency said had levelled around 20 buildings in the Jenin refugee camp.

The explosions tore through the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, sending plumes of smoke into the sky.

The Israeli military blew up at least 20 buildings in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, staging controlled demolitions that thundered across the region, where troops have been battling local militants in an operation dubbed Iron Wall.