Palestinians decry collective punishment as Israeli siege on Jenin continues
Israeli vehicles and troops keep patrolling the area near the Jenin refugee camp as well as the city of Jenin, and Palestinians have been telling us that the destruction is continuing not just to the roads, but also to the homes inside the camp.
Many people have been lacking a lot of medicine and food. And they’ve been trying to see where the Israeli vehicles are to try and avoid them and go to search for some food and some medicine.
The municipality officials were talking about damages that will cost $13m to fix just two days ago. But since then, Israeli forces have caused more destruction and the municipality is saying it cannot reassess the damage and the losses that have been incurred since then.
It’s still a continued operation where Palestinians say the destruction is one main part of it, calling it collective punishment.
‘There are snipers everywhere,’ says Jenin health worker
Medical workers at a hospital near the besieged city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank told Al Jazeera they are keeping the windows of the emergency room closed to prevent snipers from shooting inside the facility.
During a previous Israeli raid, they said an Israeli bullet penetrated the window and got lodged in the doors of the lift, without wounding anyone.
“It’s very stressful,” said Hadeel Yahya, a Palestinian midwife.
“Even opening the curtains and seeing them scares me. I know that there are snipers everywhere. And the windows overlook the street that they’re patrolling. They don’t care. If they want to shoot towards us, they will. And they won’t care that they’re around a hospital.”
Three killed in Israeli attack on vehicle in Tubas, West Bank
At least three people have been killed and another seriously injured in an Israeli attack on a vehicle in Tubas in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
The attack came as Israeli forces continued a raid on the Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, Wafa added.
Death toll rises to five in Israeli attack on Tubas
An Israeli attack on a vehicle in Tubas in the occupied West Bank has killed five young men and seriously wounded one other, the Wafa news agency is now reporting.
Israeli forces evict families, set fire to a house in Jenin
More on the continuing Israeli military operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, which is currently in its second week: The Wafa news agency is reporting that the Israeli military sent in additional troops to the besieged city and refugee camp of Jenin on Wednesday evening.
The soldiers have forcibly displaced Palestinian families in the city’s al-Jabariyat neighbourhood and also torched a house in the refugee camp, Wafa reported. They have also bulldozed Nazareth Street north of Jenin, which connects the city to villages nearby, Wafa said.
As we’ve been reporting, the siege of Jenin is part of a large-scale Israeli military operation in the northern occupied West Bank. At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in the raids, which have also targeted the cities of Tulkarem and Tubas.
