Embryo- The Israeli occupation army closed the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank, and opened a sabotage war with military bulldozers in its alleys and neighborhoods. It declared the camp a closed military zone, which means that it imposed a strict siege on it, preventing entry or exit from it, and making anyone who moves in its streets a target for killing or killing. shooting.
On the ground, bulldozers and occupation vehicles roam throughout the streets of the city of Jenin, destroying all the water networks and electricity poles that pass through them, and sweeping away the already razed streets, in a scene that suggests to everyone who sees it that the goal is to destroy all features of life.
Dangerous indicator
The storming of Israeli vehicles began at dawn today, Thursday, through Nazareth Street, which connects the city of Jenin and the Al-Jalama military checkpoint in the north. For the first time, the storming was accompanied by the bulldozing of the street, which is considered the link between Jenin and the people of the Palestinian interior.
While the Palestinian liaison reported that the Jenin camp had been transformed into a closed military zone until the end of the incursion, the private property of Palestinian merchants continued to be destroyed in the central market area in the center of the city of Jenin, and the vegetable and fruit stands extending into the Post Street area were bulldozed, and the main streets in the commercial square were vandalized.
Jenin Governor Kamal Abu Al-Rub describes the Israeli declaration of the camp as a military zone as a “very dangerous indicator,” and in his interview with Tel Aviv Tribune Net, he said that they have rehabilitated the streets of the camp and the streets connecting to it 8 times, but after this incursion they will be forced to rehabilitate for the ninth time.
Abu Al-Rub says that every time the shovels are bulldozed, and private and public property is destroyed in the camp and the city center, “Today the bulldozing began from the Jalama checkpoint, all the way to the city center where the commercial market center is. The camp is completely closed and surrounded, entry is prohibited, and we do not know what is happening.” There, except through some video clips that arrive from the people.”
Despite the difficulty of reaching the camp, what is monitored by the residents’ mobile phones that reach them via social media shows the massive scale of destruction caused by the occupation mechanisms during the morning hours. People in the camp agree that Israel is deliberately increasing the amount of destruction and devastation before Eid al-Adha, which falls on June 16 of this year.
Turning life into hell
Jenin Governor Kamal Abu Al-Rub believes that declaring a military zone may be a prelude to committing crimes inside the camp, especially after the siege of Jenin Hospital closest to the camp, and the only government hospital in the governorate, and preventing ambulances and Red Crescent crews from moving inside the camp and transporting the wounded, those with chronic diseases, and maternity cases.
The governor told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that closing the camp in this way and for an indefinite period aims to completely destroy it and kill innocent people, and this usually means that this intrusion may continue for days. “We saw the destruction of streets and entrances to homes and the uprooting of electricity wires, and this will lead to cutting off electricity to large areas in The camp, and the street leading to the hospital,” in addition to the occupation’s bulldozers cutting off the main water line in the camp, which means there is no water available to people throughout the storming period.
The occupation forces imposed a siege on Jenin Governmental Hospital, which serves approximately 400,000 citizens in the governorate, preventing medical teams from leaving it, and not allowing casualties to be transferred from the camp to it. According to Abu Al-Rub, the governorate contacted the Red Cross to coordinate the medical staff who died there more than 35 full hours of work in the hospital without changing shifts.
Attempts are also being made to obtain a permit to transport kidney patients who need dialysis today, and to deliver maternity cases that have contacted the governorate to help them reach the hospital, and there are many of them, according to the governor.
There are approximately 90 kidney patients in Jenin Governorate, distributed over 3 times during the day, each time currently includes 26 patients, but since the morning none of them have been able to reach the hospital and receive their dialysis sessions.
Hit the economy
Israeli forces deliberately storm the city of Jenin and its camp during the weekend, which is the peak day for the markets, but today’s storming also came three days before Eid al-Adha, which the people see as a way to hit the already greatly damaged economy from 2020 until now.
Although Jenin camp has not had any holiday signs for nearly two years, the residents believe that the intrusion aims to destroy the camp, destroy homes, and prevent people from receiving the holiday with peace of mind.
According to the director of the Jenin Chamber of Commerce, Muhammad Kamil, “for Jenin, October 7th began in 2020 and not October 7th, 2023,” as the city suffered throughout these years from a major economic siege, accompanied by an almost complete closure of a checkpoint. Al-Jalama, which enables the Palestinian residents to enter the city, as they contribute significantly to the revitalization of the Jenin market.
Speaking to Tel Aviv Tribune Net, Kamil says that Israel has been imposing collective punishment on the city of Jenin in general and on the camp in particular for 4 years, and it increases with every incursion carried out by its forces, which affected the private sector, as about 65% of employers changed their conditions. Contracting with workers and employees, in addition to a large number of operators being forced to lay off employees due to the weak economy.”
The director of the Chamber of Commerce believes that the sabotage of industrial facilities in the city in every raid negatively and directly affects the families whose children work in these facilities, and this has led to a 35% weaker level of purchasing than in previous years, especially in the period leading up to Eid.
“What is happening in Jenin is actually ethnic cleansing. They are trying to make people feel that there is no hope in this city and its camp, and force them to look for another place to obtain income that contributes to providing for their needs and the needs of their children,” Kamil says.
Social media circulated clips of vegetable stall owners inspecting their stalls that were destroyed by the occupation on Post Street in the city, and one of them said, “Everything they did does not affect us. Our shops, our stalls, and our livelihood are redemption for the resistance, and redemption for the homeland. What is happening here is simple compared to what our people are suffering in Gaza.” So they will not get us and we will not leave as they want.” He added, “We are accustomed to not experiencing the Eid atmosphere in Jenin, but this time they deliberately entered before the Eid to break us.”
The young woman, Shatha Al-Sabbagh, from the Jenin camp, told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that the occupation forces largely destroyed the Al-Hawashin and Fallujah neighborhoods, and also arrested a number of young men from Jabal Abu Dhahir on the outskirts of the camp, and destroyed a number of private cars and the walls of houses. She says, “The camp’s neighborhoods have become similar to Gaza due to the great destruction.” In it, they are trying to kill even the children’s joy at Eid by turning the camp into a pile of destruction.”
To date, the Israeli occupation has carried out approximately 62 military incursions into Jenin without informing the Palestinian liaison, while the number of martyrs in the governorate has reached approximately 134 martyrs, and the number of detainees has reached 535 detainees since the seventh of last October.