The Palestinian News Agency said on Friday that the Israeli army requested the evacuation of Ibn Sina Hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, which it stormed earlier today.

Palestine TV broadcast a very short video clip showing paramedics surrendering at the entrance to the hospital, without those surrendering appearing in the video. The television said that the forces took a number of paramedics from the hospital to its courtyard before arresting a group of them. It also reported that two people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli drone bombardment on the Al-Hawashin neighborhood in the Jenin camp.

The Palestinian News Agency later said that Israeli forces arrested a number of young Palestinians from a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood in Jenin.

In the same context, the agency also said that Israeli forces closed all entrances to the city and isolated it from the towns and villages of the governorate. It reported that large Israeli army forces, accompanied by special units and military bulldozers, stormed Jenin from several directions.

A previous storming of Jenin by Israeli forces earlier this week resulted in the killing of 14 Palestinians, in another bloody day in the West Bank. Local sources confirmed that the occupation forces have besieged the hospital from all sides for several hours, are searching ambulances in its vicinity, and have demanded via loudspeakers that the hospital be evacuated. It stated that the occupation forces forced a number of paramedics to evacuate the hospital with their hands raised, searched them in the hospital courtyard and arrested a number of them.

The occupation forces stormed the city and camp of Jenin from several directions, closed all entrances, isolated it from its external surroundings, bulldozed several streets, arrested 7 citizens, bulldozed the infrastructure in several locations in the city and the camp, and blew up vehicles. A number of citizens were also injured in drone strikes and bullets from the occupation forces, as a result of which they were transferred to hospitals in the city.

Source: Alsharq Al-awsat