2023-07-04 22:06:04
The Israeli occupation forces continued their attacks on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, in which signs of widespread destruction were spread, amid Palestinian warnings of a “war of extermination”, while the death toll of the Palestinians rose over two days to 10 dead and 100 injured, in addition to the arrest of 120 people.
The large-scale Israeli military operation in the Jenin camp is one of the most violent military operations in the occupied West Bank for nearly two decades. The Israeli army said that hundreds of its members continued their operation in the camp yesterday, and regarding 120 military vehicles and armored bulldozers participated in the operation. During which there were strikes by drones, units of the Special Forces and elite forces of the army, security and border guards also participated in the operation.
Yesterday morning, rubble was scattered in the streets of Jenin, and columns of black smoke rose from time to time in the sky of the camp. Residents said that the water and electricity supplies were cut off from the camp. The mayor of Jenin, Nidal al-Obeidi, confirmed that regarding 4,000 Palestinians fled the camp in search of a safe haven.
Inside the camp, where regarding 18,000 people live, the electricity cables appeared to be cut, and the streets were filled with potholes as a result of the passage of Israeli anti-bomb bulldozers. “France Press” correspondents saw the destroyed car bodies, the staircases of the houses whose stones were scattered, and the sidewalks were uprooted.
Mahmoud Hawashin, a member of the Fatah movement in the Jenin governorate, described the conditions in the camp as “catastrophic.” He told AFP, as he inspected the wounded in Ibn Sina Hospital: “This is an unequal battle between massive military forces and a defenseless people who have nothing but their will.” ».
And the Palestinian Authority announced, in a statement, following an emergency meeting chaired by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the day before yesterday, the cessation of all contacts and meetings with the Israeli side. Mahmoud Abbas, protesting the Israeli attack on Jenin.
And the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al-Kaila, warned of an “ongoing war of extermination in the Jenin refugee camp,” telling reporters in the city of Ramallah that the Israeli army prevented ambulances and medical staff from freely moving inside the camp, and from reaching the wounded to save their lives, and she expressed her fears of The high death toll and the wounded, in light of the severe restrictions on the work of medical staff.
She added that she had delivered letters of protest to the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross, asking them to put pressure on Israel to allow medical personnel to work, and to stop targeting hospitals, clinics and ambulances.
In addition, the Israeli police said that eight people were injured when a Palestinian ran over a number of pedestrians with a pickup truck in Tel Aviv, yesterday, and then began carrying out random stabbing attacks, in an incident that the “Hamas” movement said that one of its members had carried out in response to the ongoing military campaign on Jenin. .
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