Israel is constructing a military base inside Jenin (a city in the northern occupied West Bank) within what is designated Zone A — territory that under the Oslo Accords of the 1990s is meant to be under exclusive Palestinian Authority control — marking the first such construction since those agreements were signed. Residents near the Jenin refugee camp were given as little as ten minutes to evacuate their homes before Israeli bulldozers began earthworks on the site, according to displaced locals. The Israeli military says it has obtained all necessary authorisations for the project, but Palestinian residents and observers say the move represents a significant and largely unchallenged breach of the agreements that were intended to govern land control in the occupied territories.