Israeli military launches second largest incursion on Jenin this year
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An informed source has revealed that the occupation's aggression on Jenin is the largest since its incursion on the city and its camp in July.
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Israeli occupation forces are deployed at the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp in occupied West Bank, Palestine, on December 12, 2023 (AFP)
The Israeli occupation forces' invasion of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank is the largest since its incursion on the Palestinian city in July this year, an informed source told Al Mayadeen.
The source also indicated that the Israeli occupation forces are besieging hospitals in Jenin, including the Jenin Government Hospital, preventing ambulances from transporting the wounded for treatment.
Furthermore, the source noted that the Israeli forces are targeting journalists' cameras with laser weapons to prevent them from performing their duties in Jenin.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health also announced the martyrdom of a young man and a child in the city of Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, raising the number of martyrs to six. Occupation forces are also raiding homes in Jenin and arbitrarily detaining Palestinians, as they have been doing, on an amplified scale, since October 7. At least 70 Palestinians including women have been detained in the Jenin refugee camps.
Amid this renewed wide-scale aggression on Jenin, the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the Israeli occupation's incursion into the city and the refugee camp. Footage emerging from Jenin showed an Israeli military jeep reportedly severely damaged and put out of service by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
The Israeli occupation launched its aggression on Jenin at 3:30 AM (local time), accompanied by several bulldozers that destroyed the infrastructure in the camp and sabotaged the citizens’ properties. Moreover, snipers were deployed on the roofs of several high-rise buildings, and a siege was imposed on several neighborhoods in the region.
The Israeli military raided several governorates in the West Bank, focusing on the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, and arrested 40 Palestinians, including children and three women. Among the women are the wife of prisoner Amjad al-Najjar and the mother of the two prisoners Moaz and Numan al-Najjar, in addition to the wife of exiled liberated prisoner Yasser Hasan.
The Israeli occupation has intensified its oppressive measures in the West Bank following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7. Its aggression against Palestinians, which encompassed near-daily raids and executions, persisted through the 7-day truce in Gaza. The occupation continues to oppress Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, hoping that it would suppress any voices or actions of solidarity with thousands killed by occupation bombs in the Gaza Strip.
