1/23/2025–|Last updated: 1/23/202503:58 AM (Mecca time)
The Israeli occupation forces continue their operation in the city fetal Its camp in the northern West Bank for the third day in a row.
Sources told Al Jazeera that two large explosions were heard in the camp, and that the occupation forces pushed more military reinforcements and bulldozers to its outskirts.
It also forced hundreds of Palestinian families to leave the camp, and subjected citizens to strict inspection procedures, including the young men being completely naked.
The occupation army arrested 11 people, including the mothers of two martyrs, and its bulldozers continued to destroy the infrastructure and the entrance to the government hospital. It also besieged the city’s hospitals and restricted the movement of medical staff.
Snipers are still atop buildings and shooting at every moving object, amid heavy movement of military vehicles belonging to the occupation army.
Urgent | Hours ago… the besieged resistance fighters continued to clash with the occupation forces in the town of Burqin, west of Jenin. pic.twitter.com/wMRLZxLsaz
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) January 22, 2025
Bombing and clashes
Palestinian sources reported to Al Jazeera earlier that an Israeli drone bombed a house inside which a group of resistance fighters was holed up in the town of Burqin, west of Jenin.
Local media also said that the occupation forces fired shoulder-fired missiles 9 times towards the house inside which the resistance fighters, who continue to clash with the occupation forces and refuse to surrender themselves, were holed up.
Quds News Network quoted a field source as saying that at least two occupation soldiers were injured during the violent clashes in Burqin.
In return, she announced Al-Qassam BrigadesThe military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Its members are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces using machine guns and homemade bombs in the towns of Araba and Fahma, west of Jenin.
As the Jenin affiliated battalion said For the Jerusalem BrigadesThe military wing of the movement Islamic jihadIts fighters are waging fierce battles with the occupation army, showering it with bullets and causing confirmed casualties.
She added that the resistance factions placed the occupation forces and their military vehicles in ambushes.
Scenes from the Jenin camp showed intense movement of military vehicles belonging to the Israeli army, and scenes taken from the camp showed heavy gunfire.
On the other hand, the occupation carried out night raids into several towns across the West Bank, as sources told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army stormed the town of Beita, south of the city of Nablus.
The sources indicated that settlers attacked Burin Secondary School in the area and tampered with its contents.
The occupation forces also stormed the towns of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and Ramon, east of Ramallah.
A war of extermination
In reactions to the siege and the ongoing Israeli operation in Jenin, the Islamic Jihad Movement – in a statement – condemned the displacement, destruction and killing carried out by the occupation army in the camp and against its people as part of what it described as a war of extermination that it is waging.
She said that the occupation army is continuing its aggression against the Palestinian people in the West Bank to consolidate its annexation and extend its sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The movement also held the authority in Ramallah and its security services “responsible for participation and complicity in the aggression against Jenin, through the siege of the camp for more than 40 days, which paved the way for the storming of the occupation and the pursuit of the mujahideen.”
She said, “The security coordination that the Authority adheres to only serves the occupation at the expense of the blood, rights, and future of the Palestinian people.”
It affirmed its adherence to the resistance approach, calling on the people of the West Bank to defend their land and sanctities.
Internationally, France expressed “deep concern” about the increasing security tensions in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement by the French Foreign Ministry.
She said that Paris is “deeply concerned about the latest Israeli operation in the city of Jenin and its camp,” and calls on Israel to exercise “restraint.”
She added, “The French Foreign Minister will raise the issue of the West Bank and settlers at the European Union foreign affairs meeting next Monday.”
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation army continues to carry out a massive attack and an unprecedented siege on Jenin and its camp, targeting hospitals in particular.
This Israeli operation comes within a broad escalation campaign initiated by the occupation with its forces and settlers in the West Bank following the start of implementation of Ceasefire agreement in Gaza Strip Last Sunday.
Israeli media indicate that this broad campaign in the West Bank embodies the promises made by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu To the far-right ministers to persuade them not to withdraw from the government because of the Gaza agreement.