Fierce clashes have continued between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation army in Jenin in the West Bank since yesterday evening, Tuesday, while hundreds of settlers stormed the Old City of occupied Jerusalem hours before the start of the flag march.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that sirens sounded in Jenin and its camp as Israeli military vehicles, accompanied by a bulldozer, began to storm. Violent clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and occupation forces in a number of neighborhoods, while the bulldozer began to bulldoze streets and removed a memorial to a martyr in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood inside the city.
Palestinian media reported that the Jenin Brigade, affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that its fighters were confronting the occupation forces penetrating Wadi Burqin – which is located west of Jenin in the West Bank – with heavy bullets.
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that a girl was injured by shrapnel from the bullets of the occupation forces during their storming of the city of Jenin.
At the same time, armed clashes broke out between resistance fighters and the occupation forces in the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, after the occupation forces stormed the town in search of those they described as wanted persons.
According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town, conducted patrols there, closed its entrances, deployed snipers on the roofs of buildings, and conducted field investigations with citizens.
The pace of confrontations between the resistance and the occupation forces intensified in Jenin and the camp surroundings pic.twitter.com/UCP4nrAERi
– Sanad News Agency – Snd News Agency (@Snd_pal) June 5, 2024
In a related context, the occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank from several axes, and the occupation forces deployed their military vehicles in a number of the city’s neighborhoods.
Infantry soldiers were deployed at the Martyrs’ Roundabout in central Nablus, and occupation soldiers also raided a commercial store and tampered with its contents.
In conjunction with the ongoing war on Gaza, the Israeli occupation army expanded its operations in the West Bank, in addition to the escalation of settlers’ attacks on the population, resulting in hundreds of martyrs in addition to the arrest of about 9,000 Palestinians, according to official Palestinian sources.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk described the humanitarian situation in the West Bank as tragic.
Turk condemned the martyrdom of more than 500 people in the West Bank since October 7, and called for accountability.
Hebron raids
In Hebron, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar with a large number of military vehicles and launched an arrest campaign that targeted more than 20 Palestinians, in addition to raiding and searching the homes of citizens in the town.
A large force of the occupation army also stormed Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron, arrested citizens and searched a number of homes, amid the outbreak of confrontations and the firing of live bullets, stun grenades and tear gas between young Palestinians and occupation soldiers.
In the neighboring city of Yatta, the occupation forces raided and searched a number of homes, deployed in more than one location in the city and conducted patrols, before withdrawing without recording any arrests.
The occupation forces arrested about 29 young men and confiscated several vehicles during the ongoing storming of the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. pic.twitter.com/zRNzoGriVI
– Al-Qastal News (@AlQastalps) June 5, 2024
The occupation forces also demolished a house housing 10 individuals in the Wadi Al-Jawaya area, east of Yatta, under the pretext of building without a permit.
A large force of the occupation army raided the area, accompanied by heavy demolition vehicles, and began demolishing. This is the fourth house demolished by the occupation forces in less than two months in Wadi Al-Jawaya.
Meanwhile, the occupation army stormed the house of the martyr Moamen Al-Masalmeh in the city of Dura, south of Hebron. He was the perpetrator of the “Jan Yavni” operation, which resulted in the death of an Israeli and the wounding of two others 3 months ago.
The occupation handed the martyr’s peaceful family a decision intending to demolish the house and gave them 72 hours to object to the decision.
Settlers attacks
In occupied Jerusalem, large groups of settlers stormed yesterday evening, Tuesday, the Old City and the town of Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.
Local sources reported that hundreds of settlers performed Talmudic rituals at the Qattanin Gate in the Old City, in light of the occupation’s obstruction of the movement of Jerusalemite citizens in the town.
She added that the settlers performed loud dances and songs among citizens’ homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan.
#a witness Settlers storm the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and perform loud dances and songs among citizens’ homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan. pic.twitter.com/D0MU5xmdzN
— locutoratere (@locutoratere) June 5, 2024
For its part, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that confrontations broke out between the Israeli police and hundreds of religious settlers who tried to enter the Zion Complex in the Mount Zion area in the city of Jerusalem to perform Talmudic prayers, despite the area being full and no more empty spaces available.
The settlers attacked the police, wounding one of its officers, while the police arrested two of these religious people.
The occupation authorities had transformed the city of Jerusalem and its old town into a military barracks under the pretext of securing the flag march that the settlement associations intend to organize today, Wednesday.
The occupation authorities sent more than 3,000 policemen to occupied Jerusalem, and set up military checkpoints on the main roads, while announcing that they would close major routes and send more of their police officers to the city, on the eve of the media march that will pass through the neighborhoods of Old Jerusalem and land in Al-Buraq Square.
Ministers and Knesset members from the government coalition are participating in the provocative march, including the far-right Minister of Security Itamar Ben Gvir.
