Truce comes after rupture in talks said to have been caused by IDF's resumption of airstrikes in area; battalion members to surrender arms to Ramallah following 6-week operation The post PA makes deal with Jenin Battalion,

Militant groups have grown in strength in Jenin, where Israel estimates almost half the population is affiliated to Islamic Jihad or Hamas. Since March 2022, Jenin and outlying areas in the north of the West Bank have drawn intensified raids ordered by Israel's government after a spate of Palestinian street attacks.