Israeli military drops threatening leaflets over Jenin camp
The Israeli military has dropped leaflets in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, threatening to kill wanted young men if they do not surrender themselves, the Wafa news agency reports.
The leaflets, dropped via reconnaissance aircraft, were dropped near a mosque on Mahyoub Street in the camp, according to Wafa.
The Jenin area has long been a centre of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation in the West Bank and has witnessed some of the most intense fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups since October 7.
Israeli forces carry out raids, arrests in the occupied West Bank
The Israeli military has stormed the occupied West Bank town of Tal, south of Nablus, and arrested two Palestinian sisters, according to local media.
Israeli forces, supported by a convoy of military vehicles, have also stormed the city of Nablus and Aqraba town, where they raided the home of former prisoner Osama Issa, without any arrests being reported.
An unspecified number of Palestinian men have also been arrested during the storming of the village of Deir Abu Mishal, north of Ramallah.
Israeli raids have been reported in other locations in the occupied West Bank. They include:
- The town of Tuqu, east of Bethlehem
- The town of Silwad, east of Ramallah
- The village of Fasail, north of Jericho
- The city of Hebron
- The town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron
More Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank
In a seven-day period between July 9 and Monday this week, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians – including two children – in the occupied West Bank, while 37 more Palestinians were injured, including 13 children, the UN reports.
In its latest update on the situation in the occupied West Bank, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports that the two children killed by Israeli forces were 14 years-old.
One child was shot by Israeli troops while playing with two other children west of Ramallah on July 9. The second child was shot during a search operation south of Jenin on July 11. Five other children sustained injures from live ammunition fired by Israeli forces in the second incident.
According to UNOCHA, between October 7 and July 15, 554 Palestinian have been killed in the occupied West Bank either by Israeli soldiers or settlers. In the cases of seven slain Palestinians, it was not known if the killings were carried out by soldiers or settlers.
Dozens of residential buildings and commercial stores as well as sewage and water networks were damaged by military bulldozers during an operation by Israeli forces in Nur Shams Refugee Camp.
This and other updates on the #WestBank in our latest report: https://t.co/uTALQMRlQ9 pic.twitter.com/kfW311ENEL
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