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Fri 17 Nov 2023 8:12 am - Jerusalem Time

Three Palestinians killed and nine injured during Israeli storming of Jenin camp

At dawn today, Friday, three citizens were killed and others were injured, in an Israeli drone bombing that targeted a group of citizens in the Jenin camp.


Eyewitnesses in the camp said that a drone bombed a group of citizens in the Al-Hawashin neighborhood in the camp, which led to the death of three citizens and the wounding of nine others with various injuries.


Large forces from Israeli army, accompanied by special units and military bulldozers, stormed the city of Jenin and its camp, and deployed in a number of neighborhoods of the city and the vicinity of its camp, and deployed its snipers on the roofs of a number of houses and buildings.


Violent confrontations took place between citizens and Israeli forces in a number of neighborhoods of the city and the outskirts of the Jenin camp, during which two young men were seriously injured. The Israeli forces also closed all entrances to the city, isolating it from the towns and villages of the governorate.


The Israeli forces sent large military reinforcements to the city and the camp from the occupation Salem camp, west of the city, amid continuing confrontations with young men.


The Israeli forces stormed a house in the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood and arrested a group of citizens, including: Muhammad Samir Al-Rakh, Qesm Jabarin, Muhammad Al-Amer, Saeed Rifqi Al-Rakh, Ahmed Rifqi Al-Rakh, and Sami Abu Al-Rakhz. They also blew up several vehicles in the neighborhood belonging to the Al-Rakh family.


The Israeli forces also raided the neighborhoods of Jabal Abu Dhahir, Khallet Al-Souha, Talaat Al-Ghabz, the outskirts of Jenin camp, and the vicinity of the Interior Ministry headquarters, the cinema roundabout, the city center, Military Street, and Haifa Street, amid intense flight of occupation drones in the city’s sky.


The Israeli bulldozers began to destroy the infrastructure in the city and the outskirts of the camp, bulldozing the streets, and causing damage to a number of citizens’ vehicles. It also bulldozed Talaat Al-Ghabaz Street on the eastern side of Jenin camp.


The Israeli forces disrupted communications in the city of Jenin and its camp, and cut off electricity to several neighborhoods in the city and the outskirts of the camp.


Confrontations broke out between citizens and the Israeli forces in the vicinity of the cinema roundabout, during which a barrage of poisonous tear gas bombs were fired.


The Israeli forces also stormed the vicinity of Jenin Governmental Hospital, positioned themselves in the place, and fired a barrage of toxic tear gas bombs in the area, causing a number of citizens to suffocate as a result of inhaling the toxic gas.


Later, the Israeli forces pushed large military forces from Nazareth Street towards the city and Jenin camp, while violent clashes took place in the Al-Hawashin neighborhood in the camp and at the cinema roundabout in the city.


At dawn today, the Israeli forces immediately surrounded Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Jenin and arrested two paramedics.


Local sources confirmed that the Israeli forces had surrounded the hospital from all sides for several hours, were searching ambulances in its vicinity, and demanded via loudspeakers that the hospital be evacuated.


She stated that the Israeli 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.


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Three Palestinians killed and nine injured during Israeli storming of Jenin camp

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