The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 11 people were martyred and 25 others were injured as a result of the Israeli attack on Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank for the second day in a row since yesterday morning.
The Israeli army said that its forces have continued the campaign since yesterday, Tuesday, in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, and that they are engaged in clashes with gunmen, and have confiscated military equipment.
The occupation army imposed a security cordon on the Jenin camp, and strict measures were imposed on citizens who attempted to flee the camp. And the ambulances that tried to reach the injured.
An Agence France-Presse correspondent confirmed that explosions and gunfire were heard inside the Jenin refugee camp, while soldiers opened fire from their armored vehicles on masked young men in the center of the city.
Masked young men set vehicle tires on fire, emitting thick clouds of smoke.
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli army announced its operation, which it launched “based on intelligence information related to activities carried out by militants affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad in the Jenin area.”
On Tuesday, army vehicles worked to bulldoze the roads for fear of the presence of bombs planted there, and to move the rubble aside.
Palestinian warnings
The Palestinian presidency warned in a statement on Tuesday of “the genocidal war against the Palestinian people in various Palestinian cities, including Jenin.”
Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa also warned in a statement on Wednesday of “the danger of the Israeli military escalation and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemned the “massacre” in Jenin.
The number of detainees in the West Bank rose on Wednesday to 8,825 since October 7, according to a joint statement by the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
The statement added that between Tuesday and Wednesday, the occupation forces arrested at least 12 Palestinians from the West Bank, including two former female prisoners and two former prisoners, stressing that the arrests were distributed across the governorates of Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and Jerusalem.
He pointed out that there were widespread raids and harassment, severe beatings, threats against detainees and their families, and sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.
In parallel with the devastating war on Gaza, the West Bank is witnessing security tensions as a result of continued settler attacks and Israeli incursions into Palestinian cities, towns and camps, which led to the death of 514 Palestinians and the injury of about 5,000 others, according to an Anatolia census based on data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.