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Palestinians in Jenin say Israel handing out collective punishment
What Palestinians have been repeating to us in Jenin over the past six days is that this is collective punishment.
They say Israel wants to show that Palestinians would pay a heavy price for supporting armed fighters – those who pick up arms and try to combat Israeli forces while they are raiding Palestinian homes, refugee camps and cities.
They say that they could have dealt with the security necessities that Israel says it’s interested in without damaging the lives of Palestinians, without depriving them of food and water, demolishing roads and homes.
This is not a country where people have an abundance of money. You are talking about refugee camps and cities without a solid economy. People are mostly living in poverty.
Israeli settlers set fire to olive tree fields in the occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers set fire to large swaths of land in the village of al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the news agency Wafa reported.
The head of the village council, Yaqoub Awis, told Wafa that settlers set fire to olive tree fields near the road between Ramallah and Nablus.
In August, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission found that Israeli settlers had undertaken 206 acts of vandalism and theft of citizens’ property.
The settlers also stole 509 herds of sheep, seized nine vehicles and tractors, and uprooted 477 trees, including 397 olive trees, in Hebron, Salfit, Bethlehem, Nablus and Ramallah.
Palestinian journalist assaulted by Israeli soldiers in West Bank
Israeli forces have attacked Mohammed Abu Zeid, a Wafa news agency photographer, in Ramallah. The agency reported that the soldiers also confiscated the memory card from his camera.
Abu Zeid said he was assaulted with rifle butts, verbally abused and briefly detained by the soldiers.
Attacks on Palestinian journalists have intensified since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7. According to preliminary figures by the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 111 journalists and media workers were among those killed since the war broke out.
The Government Media Office in Gaza says the figure is at least 172.
Israeli gunfire reported in central Jenin
Our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli soldiers have opened fire near the Cinema Roundabout in the centre of the city.
The death toll from Israel’s ongoing operations in the northern parts of the occupied West Bank is at least 29, the news agency Wafa reported. These include 17 killed in the Jenin governorate, five in Tulkarem, four in Tubas and three in Hebron.
Israeli bulldozers raze streets in Jenin city
Israeli bulldozers have razed streets in the centre of Jenin city, which has experienced a widespread assault by Israeli forces since Wednesday, the news agency Wafa reported.
Wafa said bulldozers completely razed the Cinema Roundabout in the city’s centre, the streets leading to it, sidewalks and stalls in front of shops on Nablus Street.
It added that Israeli forces threatened members of the press in the area with shooting if they were present near the Cinema Roundabout.
