Israeli forces beat medics in occupied West Bank
The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces stopped an ambulance during a raid on the Fawwar camp and assaulted the medics, resulting in their hospitalisation.
Citing a statement from the Palestine Red Crescent, Wafa said the soldiers seized the keys to the ambulance and forced the crew out under the threat of gunfire.
Wafa said Israeli forces also raided several homes in Fawwar and deployed live bullets and tear gas, causing several people to suffer breathing problems. They also stormed the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and fired stun grenades and tear gas there.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic also reported that Israeli soldiers arrested several young men in the village of al-Mughayyir, near the city of Ramallah.
Israel rejects petition to halt demolitions of 300 homes in West Bank’s Jenin camp: Municipality
An Israeli court has rejected a petition to halt the demolition of 93 buildings, comprised of more than 300 housing units, in the Jenin refugee camp, the municipality has said, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The Israeli army has demolished several Palestinian homes in the camp as it continues the deadly raids across the occupied West Bank that it launched on January 21.
Israeli attacks have rendered Jenin refugee camp uninhabitable, official says
More than 3,250 housing units in the Jenin refugee camp have become uninhabitable due to Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the northern occupied West Bank, the Jenin municipal chief has said.
“The situation in Jenin camp is entirely catastrophic,” Mohammed Jarrar told the Anadolu news agency. “Israeli forces continue to demolish, bomb, and burn Palestinian homes.”
Jarrar said Israel rejected a Palestinian appeal against plans to raze 93 additional residential buildings, containing about 300 housing units.
“We expect the demolition could happen at any moment,” he warned, adding that such a move would deepen the humanitarian crisis in the camp.
He stressed that the camp’s entire infrastructure has been obliterated, rendering it “completely unfit for living” and in dire need of reconstruction after years of repeated Israeli operations.
The latest operations are part of a wider Israeli military campaign in the north of the occupied West Bank since January, which has killed more than 70 Palestinians and displaced thousands.
