They have reported that more than 70% of the city’s streets have been damaged by heavy Israeli bulldozers, and that water has been cut off in the entire nearby refugee camp, home to some 14,000 people, and in much of the city.
The city and the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the north of Occupied West Bankthey are still low Israeli military siege continues for fifth day consecutively, after killing at least 14 Palestinians, including an 83-year-old civilian who left his home in search of food.
Municipal officials have announced that more than 70% of the city’s streets have been damaged by heavy Israeli bulldozers, and that water has been cut off to the entire nearby refugee camp, home to some 14,000 people, and to much of the city.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced on his X account that the “intensity of Israeli attacks” in Jenin “has reached an alarming level,” with hospitals with urgently injured people being blocked and ambulances being attacked.
“At Jalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin, which has been surrounded by Israeli forces since the start of the invasion, electricity and water supplies have been hit and the Doctors Without Borders medical team has been severely affected. forced to stop dialysis“, they write in their message.
The emergency services Palestine Red Crescent At least that’s what they reported yesterday four shooting attacks on their ambulances in the West Bankas well as the evacuation of patients from the Jenin Government Hospital due to lack of electricity.
In addition to the blockade of medical centers, there have also been numerous home invasionswith arrests and, according to Palestinian sources, looting and interrogations, with Palestinian residents reporting “ill-treatment”.
Local journalists are showing on social networks the testimonies of women, accompanied by their children, fleeing the refugee camp in fear, amid intense fighting against armed militiamen and widespread destruction.
Early Wednesday morning, more than 100 Israeli soldiers, snipers, drones and armored vehicles stormed Jenin, as well as the towns and camps of Tubas and Tulkarem, to carry out an “anti-terrorist” operation that Israel dubbed “Operation Summer Camps”.
Since then, the military incursions, among the largest in the West Bank in the past two decades, have left at least 23 Palestinians dead, 14 of them in Jenin, and an Israeli soldier who died yesterday.
Three Israeli police officers have been killed next Sunday in the West Bank Governorate Hebron during a shooting attack on his vehicle carried out by the passengers of another car near the town of Tarqumia in an incident the army blames on “Palestinian terrorists.”
In the preceding days, four and five Palestinians died in Tubas and Tulkarem respectively before Israeli forces withdrew from both points.
Yesterday, an 83-year-old Palestinian, Tawfiq Ahmad Younis Qandil, was killed when, according to his family, he left his home in Jenin to buy food and was “riddled with bullets,” reportedly by snipers, the Human Rights Office described in a UN statement calling for an “immediate halt” to the incursion.
Across the West Bank, Israel has killed more than 650 Palestinians, including 150 minors, since October 7, when the war in Gaza began and repression began in the rest of the occupied territories.
According to Palestinian authorities, more than 40,700 people have been killed and nearly 95,000 injured in Gaza as a result of Hamas attacks on October 7, which killed 1,200 Israelis.
Source: EITB
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