1/13/2024–|Last updated: 1/13/202411:57 PM (Mecca time)
The occupation forces, with a large number of vehicles, stormed on Saturday evening the city of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, and surrounded the main entrance to its camp amid armed clashes, while 12 Palestinians were injured during the storming of Al-Far’a camp and the town of Araba.
Two Palestinian youths were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ fire as they stormed the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, according to eyewitnesses.
Palestinian medical sources reported that ambulance crews took one of them to the hospital, while the occupation forces arrested the second wounded man. The occupation forces deployed in the neighborhoods of the town and opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle and beat its driver before releasing him.
City sirens sound #Embryo In the northern West Bank, after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city and the sounds of clashes grew louder#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/18YvdN4KJg
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 13, 2024
Storming Al-Faraa camp
In a related context, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that continuous clashes and explosions were heard in Al-Far’a camp, south of Tubas, in the northern West Bank.
The correspondent reported that Israeli special forces stormed the camp in conjunction with an intense flight of Israeli reconnaissance aircraft. The occupation forces also sent additional military reinforcements to besiege the camp.
For its part, the Israeli army said that it wounded a number of Palestinian fighters during an exchange of fire, without any casualties among its ranks. He also announced the arrest of two wanted Palestinians during his incursion into the camp.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its crews dealt with 10 casualties during the occupation’s storming of Al-Far’a camp, and explained that 5 of them were injured by live bullets, and the other five were injured by bullet fragments.
Occupation forces block the way of an ambulance in Al-Far’a camp#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/llEgUG0r1M
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 13, 2024
Separate raids in Hebron
As for Hebron, the Israeli army continued to storm the town of Idna, west of the city, from which three Palestinian martyrs came. The Israeli army announced their killing, while saying it was an infiltration operation into the Adora settlement last Friday evening.
Journalist Muhammad Abu Jahisha, a resident of the town, said that the Israeli army closed all entrances to the town of Idhna and cut off the roads linking it to the city of Hebron and neighboring villages.
The Palestinian journalist stated that the Israeli army stormed last night the homes of the three martyrs, whom it accuses of infiltrating the settlement, and conducted a thorough search, vandalized its contents, and arrested a number of the martyrs’ relatives.
Earlier today, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that the martyrs were: Uday Ismail Abu Jahisha (17 years old), Muhammad Arafat Abu Jahisha (15 years old), and Ismail Ahmed Abu Jahisha (19 years old).
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army raided on Saturday evening the homes of the three young men’s families and dispersed the funeral homes set up for them.
In a related context, the occupation forces stormed the town of Deir Samet, south of Hebron Governorate.
Confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces, who fired live bullets and tear gas bombs, set up military checkpoints in the center of the town, and seized a house and turned it into a military barracks.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron. The townspeople said that the occupation forces set up military checkpoints in the middle of the town, searched Palestinians’ vehicles and private phones, and beat some of them during the search.
Since the start of its aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has intensified its military operations in the occupied West Bank, and increased the pace of incursions, raids, and arrests there.