2023-07-03 11:38:42
The Army of Israel continues to attack the city of Jenin, in west bankin a large scale military operation by land and air once morest Palestinian armed groups, which has already resulted in eight Palestinians being killed and nearly 40 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health on Monday (07.03.2023). Other sources speak of at least five dead Palestinians.
The Palestinian Health Ministry also said that ten of the wounded are in serious condition. At least five were militants, according to local sources. Meanwhile, the Israeli forces and the Internal Intelligence Service (Shin Bet) continue to operate in this city in the north of the West Bank, one of the main centers of Palestinian armed resistance in the region, in the largest incursion since the Second Intifada (2000). -2005).
In addition, a 21-year-old Palestinian was killed today by Israeli gunfire in Al Bireh, near Ramallah, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which would bring the death toll on this day to nine.
In the operation – which has included more than ten rounds of air strikes for the first time since the Second Intifada – more than 1,000 soldiers are participating, including combat troops and also intelligence bodies, some of which are acting covertly.
Within the framework of the armed confrontations, an Israeli soldier was slightly injured by shrapnel following the explosion of an Army grenade in the Jenin refugee camp, the point of the city where the Army is operating.
The refugee camp is the stronghold of Palestinian armed groups that have gained strength in recent timesand as specified, Israeli troops today attacked an operations center that served as the joint operational command center of the Jenin Brigade, a local militia that integrates militiamen from various factions.
Fire in the streets of the West Bank due to Israeli attacks in an operation once morest Palestinian fighters. (3.07.2023).Image: Raneen Sawafta/REUTERS
In turn, as Army spokesman Daniel Hagari specified on Twitter, Israeli airstrikes “attacked terrorist targets more than ten times and armed men” from the field, and ground forces “destroyed a laboratory for the production and storage of explosives.” .
In addition, “soldiers located and confiscated an improvised rocket launcher and other weapons” amid intense clashes and while “exchanges of fire continue” in the area.
A spokesman for the Presidency of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) condemned the military operation on Jenin, which he described as “a war crime” and a “brutal aggression”, and urged the international community to take action once morest Israel.
The West Bank is experiencing its highest peak of violence since the Second Intifada, and during 2023, 148 Palestinians have died in the framework of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most of them militants in armed clashes with Israeli troops, but also civilians, including 23 minors.
In parallel, this year 25 people have died on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, and five of them minors, in attacks carried out by Palestinians.
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