They have reported that more than 70% of the city’s streets have been damaged by Israeli heavy bulldozers, and that water has been cut off to the entire nearby refugee camp, home to some 14,000 people, and to much of the city.
The city and the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, in the north of Occupied West Bankremain under Israeli military siege for fifth day consecutive, after killing at least 14 Palestinians, including an 83-year-old civilian who left his home in search of food.
Municipal officials have announced that more than 70 percent of the city’s streets have been damaged by Israeli bulldozers, and that water has been cut off to the entire nearby refugee camp, home to some 14,000 people, and to much of the city.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced on his X account that the “intensity of the Israeli attacks” in Jenin is “reaching alarming levels”, with the blockade of hospitals with urgently injured people and attacks on ambulances.
“At the Jalil Suleiman hospital in Jenin, surrounded by Israeli forces since the start of the incursion, electricity and water supplies have been affected and the MSF medical team has been left in a state of crisis. forced to stop dialysis“, they detailed in their message.
The emergency services Palestinian Red Crescent They reported yesterday at least Four shooting attacks on their ambulances in the West Bankas well as the evacuation of patients from the Jenin Government Hospital due to the lack of electricity.
In addition to the blockade of medical centers, there have also been numerous raids on homeswith arrests and, according to Palestinian sources, looting and interrogations in which Palestinian residents have reported “ill-treatment.”
Local journalists have posted on social media the testimony of women, accompanied by their children, fleeing in fear from the refugee camp, amid intense fighting against armed militiamen and widespread destruction.
Early Wednesday morning, more than a hundred Israeli soldiers, snipers, drones and armored vehicles stormed Jenin, as well as the towns and camps of Tubas and Tulkarem, in an “anti-terrorist” operation dubbed by Israel “Operation Summer Camps.”
Since then, these military incursions, the largest in the last two decades in the West Bank, have left at least 23 Palestinians dead, 14 of them in Jenin, and one Israeli soldier who died yesterday.
Three Israeli policemen have been killed This Sunday in the West Bank governorate of Hebron during a shooting at his vehicle carried out by passengers of another car near the town of Tarqumia in an incident that the Army attributes to “Palestinian terrorists.”
In the previous days, four and five Palestinians were killed in Tubas and Tulkarem respectively before Israeli forces withdrew from both locations.
Yesterday, an 83-year-old Palestinian, Tawfiq Ahmad Younis Qandil, was killed when, according to his family, he left his home in Jenin to buy food and was “riddled with bullets” allegedly by snipers, the UN Human Rights Office described in a statement, in which it called for an “immediate cessation” of the incursion.
Throughout the West Bank, since the 7 October war in Gaza began and further repression began in the rest of the occupied territories, Israel has killed more than 650 Palestinians, including 150 children.
In Gaza, more than 40,700 people have been killed and nearly 95,000 injured, according to Palestinian authorities, following Hamas attacks on October 7, which left 1,200 Israelis dead.
Source: Eitb
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