The Israeli occupation forces began withdrawing from the city of Jenin (northern West Bank) after carrying out a military operation that included raids, arrests, and confiscation of funds.
At dawn on Thursday, the occupation army renewed its raids on cities, towns and camps in the West Bank, while its military operations were concentrated in the city and Jenin camp, where armed clashes broke out with resistance fighters in the eastern neighborhood of the city.
According to eyewitnesses, the occupation forces stormed Jenin and its camp from several fronts and besieged several neighborhoods, with drones flying over the city’s sky. Armed confrontations and clashes broke out with Palestinian resistance fighters, and the sounds of explosions were heard in several neighborhoods.
Occupation forces fire smoke bombs as they withdraw from Jenin#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/MUQuPswYQz
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 11, 2024
Demolishing the site of the martyrdom of Abu Aqla
Occupation military bulldozers deliberately bulldozed several streets in the camp and destroyed property. The army carried out raids on Palestinian homes, searched them, destroyed their contents, and conducted field investigations with dozens of citizens, according to eyewitnesses.
The Israeli occupation forces bulldozed the site where our colleague Sherine Abu Aqla was martyred, in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood at the entrance to the Jenin camp.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces, using bulldozers and armored vehicles, destroyed the wall and the carob tree at whose trunk our colleague Sherine fell, and also destroyed her pictures mounted on the wall, and the rock monument that commemorates her name and the date of her martyrdom.
A video clip – circulated on social media – showed the detonation of a homemade device in Israeli military vehicles in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin.
An occupation forces vehicle was targeted with an explosive device in Jenin, followed by clashes between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces.#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/drFNak5ILL
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 11, 2024
The occupation forces stormed the town of Ya`bad, southwest of Jenin, amid intermittent clashes with resistance fighters. A young Palestinian man was injured by occupation bullets during their storming of the town and was transferred to Jenin Governmental Hospital to receive treatment.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces removed the doors of a number of shops in the town of Ya’bad.
Storming cities and towns in the West Bank
12 Palestinians were injured in confrontations that broke out after the occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Local sources reported to Tel Aviv Tribune that the occupation forces raided citizens’ homes in Nablus, destroyed their contents, and carried out an arrest campaign among young men.
In Jerusalem, local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the Ain al-Loza neighborhood in the town of Silwan in Jerusalem, and that these forces subjected young men to searches during the storming operation.
The occupation forces also carried out raids tonight at dawn on several cities, towns and camps in the West Bank, most notably the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, in the center of the West Bank, the cities of Al-Bireh (central) and Qalqilya, north of it, and the Aqabat Jabr camp near Jericho, east of the West Bank. The raids also included the Dheisheh camp in the city of Bethlehem, which witnessed a raid by the occupation forces. Homes of a number of citizens.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression against Gaza on October 7, 2023, the occupation army has intensified its military operations in the West Bank, and increased the pace of incursions and raids into cities, towns, and camps, resulting in the martyrdom of 342 Palestinians, the injury of about 3,950, and the arrest of 5,780, according to official sources.