The number of martyrs increased in the massive attack launched by the occupation forces on fetal northern West BankToday, Tuesday, under the name “The Iron Wall,” while the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) to the general mobilization to confront the incursions that included large areas in the West Bank.
This evening, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 10 Palestinians were killed and about 40 others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation’s aggression against Jenin and its surroundings.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the occupation forces prevent its crews from reaching the injured inside the Jenin camp.
It is expected that the number of martyrs will rise even more due to serious injuries, according to what Dr. Bahaa Yahya from Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin told Al Jazeera.
The doctor indicated that the hospital treated injuries to one-year-old children.
Likewise, the director of Jenin Governmental Hospital told Al Jazeera that a number of doctors and nurses were injured by bullets from the occupation forces during their storming of the city.
Targeting by drones and snipers
A Palestinian was injured by Israeli sniper bullets on Al Mahatta Street in the city of Jenin, according to local sources, while Israeli drones bombed a site in the Jenin camp.
Local sources told Al Jazeera that the occupation army completely closed the entrances and exits of the Jenin camp, and the occupation bulldozers began destroying infrastructure in the camp.
Electricity was also cut off in a number of neighborhoods in the city of Jenin, according to what sources told Al Jazeera.
Earlier, local sources reported hearing a huge explosion in the vicinity of the Jenin camp, and said that there was an intense flight of occupation helicopters over Jenin and its camp, coinciding with a massive storming and siege of the area.
Local sources told Al Jazeera that the security services affiliated with… For the Palestinian Authority It withdrew from the vicinity of the Jenin camp after the Israeli incursion began. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Israeli army asked the Authority forces to withdraw from the area before the incursion began.
A military source told Israeli Channel 14 that the army is launching a large military operation in the northern West Bank that may last for months.
On the other hand, the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) quoted the Governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub, as saying that the occupation began implementing its threats to transfer its crimes to the West Bank, and began targeting the West Bank camps in Jenin in general.
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The resistance repels the attack
Sources told Al Jazeera this evening that resistance fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli vehicle in the Jenin camp.
Palestinian media also broadcast scenes that they said showed resistance firing at the occupation forces on Nazareth Street in the city of Jenin.
Israeli media reported that 4 Israeli soldiers were injured, ranging from moderate to light, as a result of the explosion of an explosive device in Jenin.
Jenin Battalion said in Al-Quds Brigades The military wing of the movement Islamic jihad Its fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli troop carrier in the vicinity of the Jenin camp, leaving the soldiers dead and wounded.
The battalion also stated that its fighters were waging “fierce battles with enemy forces in the fighting axes near Al-Hussan Roundabout and Talat Al-Ghabz, and were raining down heavy showers of bullets and explosive devices on enemy forces and military vehicles.”
Resistance fighters also confronted occupation army forces that stormed the town of Silat al-Harithiya, northwest of Jenin, according to what sources told Al Jazeera.
A call to public outcry
For its part, the Hamas movement called for “general mobilization and confronting the occupation’s widespread aggression in Jenin and supporting the resistance fighters to confront the Zionist oppression.”
The movement said, “The behavior of the authorities’ forces that withdrew from the vicinity of the Jenin camp simultaneously with the start of the occupation process raises astonishment.”
The head of the movement in the West Bank, Zaher Jabarin, said in an interview with Al Jazeera that the resistance will defeat the occupation in the West Bank as it defeated it in Gaza.
Likewise, the Islamic Jihad movement called on the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank to “confront by all means the criminal campaign and thwart its goals.”
The movement said that this campaign is “a link in the series of genocide launched by the usurping entity against our people.”
Occupation objectives
The Israeli Prime Minister announced Benjamin NetanyahuIn a statement, a military operation was launched in Jenin to “eradicate terrorism.”
He added that the operation is “broad and important” and aims to enhance security and protection Settlers In the West Bank.
Likewise, the Israeli Minister of Finance confirmed Bezalel Smotrich Operation “Iron Wall” will be a strong and continuous campaign against “terrorist elements”, with the aim of protecting the settlers and the security of Israel.
He added that the operation comes within the framework of changing the concept of security in the West Bank, after developments in Gaza and Lebanon, with the aim of “eliminating terrorism in the region as a whole.”
The operation comes within a wide escalation campaign initiated by the occupation with its forces and settlers in the West Bank, following the start of implementation Ceasefire agreement In the Gaza Strip yesterday, Sunday.
Israeli media indicated that this campaign reflects the promises made by Netanyahu to far-right ministers to persuade them not to withdraw from the government because of the Gaza Agreement.
Israeli Channel 14 explained that the operation in Jenin was launched by a decision from the political level following the meeting, which was held by the Mini Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs (The cabinet) last Friday, to approve the agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza.
The channel reported that the cabinet decided at that meeting to include the West Bank among the goals of the war.
Extensive incursions
Coinciding with the attack on Jenin, the occupation forces carried out massive incursions into areas in Jerusalem occupied andNablus andQalqilya.
Sources told Al Jazeera that the occupation forces stormed Shuafat camp East Jerusalem, it also stormed the popular housing neighborhood east of Nablus amid confrontations and shooting towards Palestinians.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a person was injured by occupation bullets in Shuafat camp.
At the same time, the occupation forces stormed Al-Mansour neighborhood in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and fired gas bombs at citizens’ homes.
The occupation forces arrested 5 Palestinians from the town of Beit Kahil West HebronAccording to what was reported by the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).
On the other hand, settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles near the Shilo settlement on the main road between Ramallah And Nablus, according to what was reported by Palestinian media.