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SvennoJ on 05 September 2024
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Reports of Israeli military withdrawal from Jenin

Local Palestinian media is reporting that Israeli forces have ended their siege of Jenin city and its refugee camp.

The Wafa news agency reported earlier that Israeli soldiers had pulled out from the vicinity of the Jenin Government Hospital and the city’s Ibn Sina Hospital, where they had been stationed since the large-scale incursion of the occupied West Bank began on August 28.

Local sources in Jenin have told Palestinian media that the Israelis have withdrawn completely, posting photos on social media of the destruction left after the nine-day siege of the city and refugee camp.

The military raid constitutes Israel’s largest assault on the occupied territory since the second Intifada in the early 2000s with at least 39 Palestinians killed and 130 wounded so far.

Israeli military raids continue across the occupied West Bank

Raids on Palestinian communities and attacks on local people continued over Thursday night in the occupied territory, including:

  • A 20-year-old Palestinian woman suffered bullet shrapnel injuries to her abdomen from random Israeli gunfire as she was closing a window inside her home in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem. Shooting broke out after Israeli forces stormed the village and local youth resisted the incursion.
  • There was a raid on the village of Beit Ta’mar, east of Bethlehem, during which a local resident’s house was stormed by soldiers and ransacked.
  • Five Palestinians were “severely beaten” by Israeli forces at the al-Jalama military checkpoint north of Jenin and required treatment by the Palestine Red Crescent Society for cuts and bruises, the Wafa news agency reports. No motive was reported for the attack on the five victims.
  • A 30-year-old Palestinian man was injured by shrapnel from bullets fired by Israeli forces following a raid on the Balata refugee camp, located east of Nablus.
  • Israeli settlers backed up by soldiers attacked the inhabitant of the Palestinian villages of Khader Kayed Bani Odeh and Khader Shahada Bani Odeh in the Atouf area, located in the northern Jordan Valley.