Friday, Israeli forces blocked four main entrances to Jenin City and its refugee camp while the deadly raid in the city entered the fourth day, officials said.
Mansour Saadi, Jenin’s sub-government, said by the Wafa news agency that the Israeli army “blocked the four main entrances to the city and its refugee camp with mounds of land, preventing entry and the exit “.
Palestinian sources have said that Israeli forces have launched drones with speakers in the refugee camp and imposed a curfew from Thursday evening to Friday morning.
The WAFA news agency also indicated that Israeli forces set fire to camp houses and prevented the civil defense teams from reaching the region to extinguish the flames.
This occurs after having published threats of forced evacuation against residents of the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday, while thousands of Palestinians have fled in the middle of the deadly assault by Israeli forces.
In addition to the governorate of Jenin, the Israeli forces have intensified their operations through the occupied West Bank since January 21, just days after the entry into force of the ceasefire in Gaza on January 19.
Thursday, the number of deaths in Israeli raids had reached 12 dozen were also injured and detained.
Friday, the situation of the Jenin government hospital was “disastrous,” said Saadi, medical staff find it difficult to provide care for patients in the midst of power cuts and fuel shortages caused by the Israeli operation in course.
Hamdah Salhut of Tel Aviv Tribune said that many Palestinians in occupied West Bank, including in Jenin, fear that Israel is “just like in Gaza”.
“In their thousands of people, the Palestinians were forced to leave their homes in the Jenin refugee camp,” said Salhut, who reports from Jordan because Tel Aviv Tribune was prohibited by the Palestinian Authority ( ) to postpone the occupied West Bank.
“People say that Israeli forces want to shave these Palestinian cities on the ground like in Gaza.”
Sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that the Palestinian fighters had also retaliated against Israeli forces, targeting them with an explosive apparatus while they were traveling along Nazareth de Jenin Street. There was no immediate report of victims.
In some of the current raids, the AP security forces participated in Palestinian fighters, including in Tulkarem, Ramallah, Hebron and Qalqilya on Friday.
The armed clashes also broke out between the Palestinian fighters and the AP forces in the city of Yabad, west of Jenin.
The PA security forces would have seriously defeated a number of Palestinian fighters after arresting them.
Later Friday, the United Nations expressed serious concerns concerning the use of force by the Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, including the methods “developed for war fighting”.
“We are deeply concerned about the use of the illegal deadly force in Jenin, in an occupied West Bank,” said spokesperson for the United Nations Human Rights Office Thameen Al-Kheetan to a media conference in Geneva.
“The deadly Israeli operations in recent days raise serious concerns concerning the useless or disproportionate appeal to force, including the methods and means developed for war fighting, in violation of international human rights law, standards and standards applicable to law application operations. “
Al Jazera’s superior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, said the Israeli government was moving from Gaza to the occupied West Bank.
He said operations in Jenin and other parts of the occupied West Bank serve as a “deviation” of the failures of the Israeli government on October 7. Bishara added that the operation also creates an opportunity for Israel to advance annexation policies.
Since the war against Gaza began in October 2023, Israeli forces increased the size and frequency of their occupied West Bank raids, killing nearly 900 Palestinians and injuring thousands.
Israel says that the elimination of Palestinian fighters armed in occupied West Bank is one of its global objectives for the war against Gaza. The United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that the Israel genocide would not be confined to Gaza if the military offensive in the West Bank does not stop.