Sam Hancock
Live reporter

We're going to close this page now - but just before then here's a reminder of our key stories and explainers, which you can keep reading.

• Our main story, which will continue to be updated with the latest news lines, is here.
• Elsewhere, you can read the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen's analysis of the fighting here.
• For more details on the car ramming and knife attack in Tel Aviv today, head here.
• And you can watch the BBC's Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell's most recent dispatch from Jenin here.

This page was edited by Emma Owen, Tiffany Wertheimer, Alexandra Fouche, Marita Moloney and Sam Hancock. The writers were Laura Gozzi, Adam Durbin, Charley Adams, Ali Abbas Ahmadi and Emily Atkinson.

Anna Foster
Reporting from outside Jenin

Throughout the day here, the whining of drones has been a near-constant sound, and columns of dark smoke have regularly risen into the sky from Jenin.

Inside, Israeli forces said its engineering vehicles had defused 11 improvised explosive devices concealed on civilian roads.

Several thousand Palestinian families have fled the camp, and there were reports that Israeli soldiers used tear gas outside a hospital treating the wounded.

In Tel Aviv, graphic videos circulating on social media showed injured people lying in the street after being hit by a car.

As the driver then tried to stab shoppers, he was shot and killed by a passer-by. The attack was welcomed by Palestinian militant groups.

As the second day of Israel's military operation in Jenin draws to a close, here are some images from the last few hours in the West Bank city.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

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Image source, EPA

Danger of conflict sliding into more violent phasepublished at 18:31 British Summer Time 4 July 2023

18:31 BST 4 July 2023

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, in Jenin

When the Israeli operation here in Jenin ends, on past form both sides will claim victory.

Then the current realities of this long conflict will reassert themselves.

Anger, despair and poverty will reinforce the culture of resistance that has embedded itself in Palestinian society, especially here in Jenin and in Nablus.

And Israel's right-wing, hyper-nationalist government, as long as it lasts, will try to match its rhetoric with action.

The real danger is that Israelis and Palestinians are sliding into an even more violent phase of their long conflict.

We're hearing that the death toll from Israel's military operation in Jenin has risen, from 10 to 11.

Another person is said to have died today after being shot by Israeli forces, the AFP news agency reports, citing the Palestinian health ministry.

Israel's army began its operation in Jenin - in the north of the occupied West Bank - yesterday, with images showing rubble strewn around the city, cutting off roads and blocking access to emergency services.

Thousands of Palestinians have fled the Jenin refugee camp since the unrest began.

The root of the violencepublished at 18:03 British Summer Time 4 July 2023

18:03 BST 4 July 2023

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, in Jenin

The roots of violence, despair and hatred between Palestinians and Israelis go much deeper than the latest violent confrontations.

They thrive in the poison generated by a conflict over possession of the land that started more than a century ago.

For a while, back in the 1990s, there were hopes that peace might come if an independent Palestinian state could be established alongside Israel, the so-called two-state solution. The attempt failed.

Powerful Western countries, including the US, European Union members and the UK still insist that two states are the only possible solution. Their words are empty slogans. The last American attempt to try to make the idea work collapsed in 2014.

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The majority of people living inside the Jenin refugee camp no longer have access to electricity and water, a UN official says.

Lynn Elizabeth Hastings, the organisation's deputy special co-ordinator for the Middle East peace process, tells the BBC that infrastructure and people's homes have suffered "significant damage" as a result of Israel's military operation.

Roads leading to the camp have ben "dug up and destroyed", she says, noting additional concern that difficulties in delivering food and medical supplies to the camp could emerge.

Around 3,000 people have been evacuated from Jenin already, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in its most recent update.

Israel's Jenin operation reignites Palestinian angerpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 4 July 2023

17:33 BST 4 July 2023

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, in Jenin

A thick crust of black ash has settled on the pavements and roads in the centre of Jenin.

It comes from barricades of burning tyres set up by young Palestinian men, who prowl streets where they might see an Israeli jeep.

Some of them carry rocks or small home-made bombs to hurl at passing Israeli vehicles. In sporadic bursts, gunfire and explosions echo in the refugee camp, which is on high ground above the town centre. Israeli drones buzz constantly overhead.

At times, armed Palestinians emerge from the tyre smoke to fire at the Israelis.

Violence between Palestinians and Israelis has become almost a daily event this year.

When blood is spilt there is often a dynamic of retaliation, that includes Palestinian armed groups, Jews who live in settlements in the occupied West Bank that are illegal under international law, and the Israeli army.

The Israelis said they moved in on the Jenin camp because more than 50 relatively recent attacks were launched from there.

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Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, has called for the "killing, maiming and the destruction of property" to stop.

Both the car ramming attack in Tel Aviv in Israel and the military operation in Jenin, West Bank "underscore an all too familiar pattern of events" he said.

"That violence only begets more violence," Turk added, according to the AFP news agency.

Thousands of people have fled the refugee camp in the West Bank since Israel's military operation began on Monday.

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty Images

A charity worker in Jenin now says Israeli forces have fired tear gas inside the Khalil Suleiman hospital which she claims is now unusable.

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shared a statement, external from its local operations coordinator, Jovana Arsenijevicin, in which she says that the emergency room was filled with smoke.

She said 125 patients had been treated there so far.

The BBC is not able to independently verify MSF's claim, but earlier, one of our cameramen caught these scenes outside the hospital:

Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen travelled to the West Bank from London last night.

He is now in Jenin, and earlier he spoke to people outside Khalil Suleiman hospital, which is treating many of the casualties.

He is unable to get closer to the refugee camp because of the Israeli activity there.

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A person who was at the scene of the car ramming attack in Tel Aviv today has been speaking about what they saw.

"I saw the grey pick-up pull up at peak speed and ram the bus stop, powerfully," Liron Bahash, a sports teacher who was on a lunch break, told Reuters news agency.

"In the first seconds you think it could have been a mistake by the driver.

"He exited through the window, not the door, like in a movie, with a knife in hand and started chasing civilians. Now you understand it's an attack. We ran for our lives."

More now on the Tel Aviv attacker, who Israeli authorities have named as 20-year-old Palestinian, Abed Elohab Halaila, from the West Bank.

Shin Bet, Israel's security service, says he did not have a permit to enter Israel.

As a reminder, Palestinians in the West Bank require a permit (eg for work) to enter Israel.

Israel's forces must prioritise the protection of civilians during its military operation in the occupied West Bank, the UK prime minister has said.

Speaking to a Commons committee, Rishi Sunak reasserted his support for Israel's right to self-defence, but urged "all parties to avoid further escalation".

He also called on Israel "to adhere to principles of necessity and proportionality when defending their legitimate security interests".

Pictures from Tel Aviv show police officers are now examining the scene of the car ramming attack.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

Israel's far-right national security minister has been to the site of the car ramming in Tel Aviv.

As we reported a short while earlier, Itamar Ben-Gvir applauded the "brave citizen" who shot dead the assailant.

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Israeli intelligence services say that the man who carried out the attack in Tel Aviv had no security background.

He has been identified as 20-year-old Palestinian man, Abed Elohab Halaila, from the West Bank.

Earlier, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said the attack was a "natural response" to Israeli activities in Jenin.

The Israeli security services have just released pictures of what they say are improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hidden on roads and in buildings in Jenin refugee camp.

Eleven devices have been neutralised by military engineers "acting on precise intelligence" to clear the roads, the statement says.

They say barriers have also been "set up to hinder the activities of the forces in the camp", and they too have been removed.

Image source, IDF

Image source, IDF

Israel's far-right security minister has praised the "brave citizen" who shot dead the suspected attacker in Tel Aviv earlier.

Writing on Twitter, external, Itamar Ben-Gvir says their actions prevented the escalation of the situation further and saved lives.

He adds that the "neutralisation" is proof of the importance and effectiveness of armed civilians.