Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the city of Jenin and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank after a 10-day military operation, while incursions and raids continued in other cities and towns.
The correspondent quoted Palestinian security and local sources as saying that dozens of Israeli military vehicles withdrew from their positions, and the occupation evacuated its sniper teams and soldiers from residential buildings around and inside the camp and redeployed its vehicles at the military checkpoints surrounding the city of Jenin.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 22 Palestinians were killed and more than 30 others were injured by the occupation’s bullets and air strikes targeting resistance fighters during its military operation.
Yesterday, Thursday, the occupation forces launched a concentrated attack on various parts of Jenin, and besieged local institutions, including the Jenin Municipality, the Civil Defense, and the Electricity Company, and demanded that residents of residential buildings evacuate, and also blew up a house near the Al-Ansar Mosque in the city camp.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli military bulldozers destroyed main streets, dug up water and sewage networks, uprooted electricity poles, demolished homes and destroyed numerous vehicles.
Nine days ago, the occupation forces began a large-scale operation in the northern West Bank under the pretext of dismantling resistance cells. Since then, resistance fighters have been confronting them with explosive devices and bullets, killing and wounding a number of its soldiers.
Nablus and Tulkarm
In Balata camp, east of Nablus, specifically in the Jamasin neighborhood and the old Balata market, the occupation forces stormed the camp, which led to the injury of a citizen by the occupation’s bullets, amid violent clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters and confrontations with other young men.
The Palestinian Red Crescent also reported that a female citizen was injured by occupation bullets during clashes in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, while Red Crescent crews received 5 Palestinians through the Jalameh military crossing, north of Jenin, who had been injured as a result of the occupation soldiers’ assault on them inside the lands of 1948.
A few hours before withdrawing from the city of Jenin and its camp, the occupation forces withdrew again from the city of Tulkarm after storming it. Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that these forces stormed the city again from the western side, raided Tulkarm camp, and closed all its entrances.
The reporter said that the occupation forces opened fire on the press crews present there, spread out in the city, deployed snipers on several buildings, demanded that shop owners close their shops, and besieged Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
Funeral of martyrs
In the city of Tubas, the people buried 4 martyrs to their final resting place, while the bodies of other martyrs were transferred to the town of Qabatiya, south of the city of Jenin, to be buried after the end of the aggression on the city of Jenin.
In Hebron, south of the West Bank, the occupation forces stormed the town of Idhna to the west, raided a house, searched and vandalized its contents before arresting a citizen. They also raided a house in the city of Hebron, searched it and arrested a boy after vandalizing the house.
This comes as the siege of the city of Hebron continues for the fifth consecutive day and all entrances leading to the governorate are closed, while the Israeli forces carried out 3 military operations in less than 48 hours (from the northern and western sides) during which they suffered 3 police officers killed and 3 soldiers injured.
