Palestinian Resistance confronts IOF amid Jenin, Qalqilya raids
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Palestinian Resistance factions confront invading Israeli occupation sources across the West Bank with machine guns and IEDs.
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Israeli military vehicles storming the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, on July 17, 2024. (Social Meida)
The Palestinian Resistance confronted storming Israeli occupation forces (IOF) across several towns and villages in the West Bank.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, in Jenin, announced that its fighters confronted occupation soldiers using machine guns and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in the al-Marah neighborhood.
On its part, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin, reported that its fighters have been confronting the IOF with heavy gunfire.
Moreover, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Jenin - also confronted the IOF with heavy gunfire, machine guns, and IEDs, particularly on the al-Marah neighborhood axis.
اشتباكات بالرشاشات والعبوات المتفجرة بين المقاومين وقوات الاحتلال في #حي_المراح.#فلسطين #الضفة_الغربية pic.twitter.com/TEdOlQd8MJ
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) July 16, 2024
IOF raided homes, placed snipers on rooftops
Jenin witnessed an IOF raid during the early hours of Wednesday, with a special Israeli force infiltrating the Dabous neighborhood in an undercover truck, according to local Palestinian media. Occupation soldiers then surrounded a Palestinian home and launched an Energa shell inside, while Israeli reconnaissance drones intensely hovered over the city.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Qalqilya announced that its fighters confronted invading Israeli occupation soldiers with machine guns.
During the storming of Qalqilya, the IOF raided several Palestinian homes in the vicinity of the Islamic College and deployed snipers atop house rooftops in the Street 22 area.
قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي تداهم منازل في محيط الكلية الإسلامية بمدينة #قلقيلية في #الضفة_الغربية.#فلسطين #طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/0IfR1mZoyo
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) July 16, 2024
The IOF also stormed Ramin, east of Tulkarm, Odla, south of Nablus, Budrus, west Ramallah, and Beit Fajar, south of Beit Lahm.
In occupied al-Quds, the occupation stormed the towns of Hizma and Issawiya, where a Palestinian youth was injured by Israeli gunfire amid violent confrontations between occupation soldiers and Palestinians resisting the raid.
'Israel' arrests 30+ Palestinians in 48 hours in West Bank
"Israel" has escalated the aggression against the West Bank since it launched its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. Amid its daily series of raids, the IOF also destain, assault, and murder Palestinians there.
On July 14, the Palestinian Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced Sunday that the Israeli occupation forces had arrested more than 9,655 Palestinians from the West Bank including occupied al-Quds since the war on Gaza began.
The organizations explained, in a joint statement, that this toll includes those who were arrested from their homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.
The IOF detained at least 30 Palestinians from the West Bank from July 12-14, including a woman and former detainees from various areas of Ramallah, al-Khalil, Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Jenin, Ariha, and al-Quds.
