IOF raids in West Bank continue, confrontations intensify

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
15 Oct 2023 08:56
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The Palestinian Resistance confronts IOF storming of several neighborhoods across the West Bank amid the ongoing Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Palestinian demonstrators confront Israeli Occupation Forces following a demonstration in support of the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Occupied Palestine, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP)

Palestinian Resistance fighters targeted the Israeli Occupation Forces with live fire as they stormed Toubas in the northern part of the West Bank. However, the IOF attempted to raid a number of neighborhoods across the Bank but residents and Resistance confronted them forcing them to eventually withdraw.

According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, early on Sunday, the IOF raided al-Khalil in the southern West Bank, the camp of Jelzoune in Ramallah in the north of the Bank, and in Sheqba, also west of Ramallah, where a Palestinian got wounded during confrontations.

قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي تقتحم مدينة #الخليل في الضفة الغربية#طوفان_الأقصى #الثورة_الكبرى #فلسطين pic.twitter.com/X8sjKXFd60
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) October 14, 2023

At the same time, the IOF launched an arrest campaign earlier on Saturday in Beit Lahm where they stormed residential homes, searched them, confronted Palestinians, and arrested 32 young Palestinian men from across the West Bank.

The occupying Israeli army carries out a mass detention campaign in the Al-Am'ari refugee camp in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/ay2swqGJV2
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 15, 2023

As for al-Quds, the city has witnessed a number of confrontations since the early morning hours until a large raid stormed the city and showered its residents with live bullets, gas bombs, as well as stun grenades. As a result of the confrontations, a number of Palestinians were injured, according to local sources.

It was also reported that the stun grenades resulted in the partial burning of a mosque inside the neighborhood.

Israeli genocide continues as dozens of families killed by airstrikes

Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, described “Israel’s” ongoing aggression against the strip as a “genocide against Gaza, in full view of the world, which continues to sit idly by.”

He further noted that during the past eight days, since the beginning of the aggression last Saturday, more than 55 Palestinian families were removed from official records, as they were massacred by the Israeli occupation.

As per Archbishop Hosam Naoum, an Israeli airstrike targeted the #Arab Ahli Hospital in #Gaza this evening. The strike resulted in partial damage to two floors and caused injuries to four individuals. The Ultrasound and Mammography rooms suffered significant damage.… pic.twitter.com/9WknXXPGHM
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 14, 2023

Regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip amid the occupation's war crimes and the targeting of civilian buildings and hospitals, Al-Qedra noted that medical crews “will not respond to Israeli threats to evacuate hospitals; they have made the decision to continue working. They will stay in place and continue to fulfill their duty and not evacuate the hospitals, even if they should be leveled over our heads.”

The Health Ministry’s spokesperson also asked the Jordanian field hospital not to leave the Gaza Strip and demanded that the international community work on evacuating the sick and wounded through a safe corridor for treatment outside of Gaza.

He further demanded that a safe corridor be opened in order to let in medical aid and fuel to the Gaza Strip, or else a catastrophe is expected.