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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli military raid on Jenin leaves Palestinians ‘bleeding out in the streets'

It’s the Israeli military’s biggest operation in the occupied West Bank since the start of the new year. Israeli forces say they are targeting what they call “terrorism” in the Jenin refugee camp.

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured, including children. Others on the receiving end of Israel fire were bleeding out in the streets of Jenin as Israeli forces blocked ambulances from reaching them.

The raid comes after a standoff between fighters in the Jenin camp and the Palestinian Authority, after more than a month of siege.  Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces arrested 64 Palestinians. This time, in Qalqilya.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank face constant threats living under Israeli occupation. Army raids coupled with violent settler attacks have significantly increased since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. Now with President Trump back in the White House, Palestinians fear the situation will only get worse.


Israeli forces storm West Bank’s Aida refugee camp; reinforcements deploy in Jenin

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israel’s military has launched an early morning raid on the Aida refugee camp located north of Bethlehem and raids are also reported in Tulkarem city in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Local Palestinian media also report that Israeli forces came under fire while storming the al-Ein refugee camp, located west of Nablus, earlier this morning.

Israeli military reinforcements are also reported to have deployed at checkpoints and roads near the Jenin refugee camp, where at least 10 people were killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday as well as dozens injured.


The view from the Aida refugee camp of an Israeli military watch tower and Israel’s separation wall between the Palestinian town of Bethlehem and Israeli areas, as seen in 2013


Masked Israeli settlers brought ‘incendiary materials’ to raid on Palestinian villages


A young Palestinian searches through the burnout remains of a building on Tuesday, a day after masked men raided the Palestinian village of Jinsafut in the occupied West Bank

The dozens of masked Israeli men that raided the Palestinian villages of Jinsafut and Funduq near Jerusalem on Monday night, injuring at least 12 people, came prepared to set fire to cars and buildings, a local official said.

Jalal Bashir, the head of Jinsafut’s village council, said that the men attacked three houses, a nursery and a carpentry shop located on the village’s main road. “The settlers were masked and had incendiary materials,” Bashir told the Associated Press news agency. “Their numbers were large and unprecedented.”

Louay Tayem, head of the local council in Funduq, said the dozens of settlers who raided the town fired shots, threw stones, burned cars, and attacked homes and shops.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it treated 12 local people who were beaten by the settlers.


A man stands near a bulldozer that was burnt in the attack



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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israel’s violence in Jenin a ‘deflection’ after Israeli commanders resign over Oct 7 failure

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said he had predicted that the occupied West Bank would face a military onslaught following Israel’s war on Gaza. “After they destroy Gaza, they want to destroy the West Bank or annex most of it,” Bishara said, adding, “and certainly humiliate, scare and kill as many people as possible”.

He said that the Israeli military operation in Jenin could be the start of such a plan.

Bishara said that attacking Palestinians in the West Bank also served to deflect public attention in Israel after the resignations of Israeli military commanders for their admitted failure to protect Israel from the Hamas attack in October 2023.

“I think the Netanyahu government is deflecting. Where does it deflect? In the West Bank. In Jenin. By various closures and by a huge attack on Jenin that probably will go on for days, weeks – perhaps more.”

The West Bank violence also appeases the ultra-nationalists in Netanyahu’s government who were against the ceasefire in Gaza, he added.

“It is almost understood in Israel that the year 2025 – meaning this year – after the destruction of Gaza – will be the year of annexations in the West Bank. Illegal annexations in the West Bank that will torpedo the possibility of a two-state solution.”


UN expert warns Israel’s genocide could spread to West Bank

The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has warned of the potential consequences of Israel’s escalating violence in the occupied West Bank going unchecked.

“As the long awaited ceasefire in Gaza took place, Israel’s death machinery escalated its firing in the West Bank, killing 10 people in Jenin [on Tuesday],” Albanese said in a post on X.

“If it is not forced to stop, Israel’s genocide of Palestinians will not be confined to Gaza. Mark my words,” she said.


Jenin operation to change Israeli army’s security doctrine in West Bank: Katz

Defence Minister Israel Katz says the ongoing Iron Wall military operation in Jenin will mark a shift in the Israeli army’s security doctrine in the occupied West Bank, according to media reports.

Israel’s Channel 12 broadcaster quoted him as saying his government would not allow the lives of Israeli settlers to be threatened in the Palestinian territory.


Number of Israeli checkpoints in West Bank increases to 898

The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian government body, has reported that the number of Israeli military checkpoints and gates in the occupied West Bank has risen to 898.

It said more than 173 iron gates were installed after October 7, 2023, including 17 since the beginning of this year.


Israel’s raids in West Bank dangerous, destabilising for entire region: Jordan’s top diplomat

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank, on his country’s borders, are dangerous. He warned the ongoing raids could destabilise the security of the region.



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report

Dozens of people have been arrested by Israel in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency:

  • At least 18 Palestinians in the Bethlehem governorate, mostly men in their 20s and 30s.
  • Two in the city of Bethlehem.
  • Three in the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.
  • Two in the Khalayel al-Loz area, southeast of Bethlehem.
  • Two in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.
  • Two more in the Masiliya village, east of Jenin.


Heart attack patient dies near Hebron after Israeli forces block checkpoint: Ministry

Iman Muhammad Abdul Salam Eid, 45, died yesterday at the Beit Einun checkpoint, northeast of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces prevented her from being transferred to the hospital after she suffered a heart attack, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.


Footage shows Israeli bulldozers heading towards Jenin refugee camp

Palestinian channels on Telegram have shared videos showing Israeli forces heading towards the Jenin refugee camp with two military bulldozers, after leaving the al-Jalama checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

Other footage showed Israeli forces heading towards Jabal Street in the Jenin camp. Israeli vehicles had stormed the city of Jenin at dawn. The videos have been verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency.


Israeli forces arrested 25 Palestinians in West Bank: Prisoners’ groups

They arrested at least 25 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from yesterday evening until this morning, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The arrests were made in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jenin, and Tulkarem, the joint statement said.

“The occupation forces continue to carry out field investigations in several towns, in addition to the widespread abuse, attacks and threats against citizens, as well as acts of vandalism and destruction in citizens’ homes,” it added.


Israel orders forced displacement from West Bank’s Jenin camp

Jenin Mayor Muhammad Jarar says the Israeli military has forced a number of Palestinians to leave their homes in the Jenin refugee camp to the area of Wadi Burqin on the western outskirts of the city, according to the Wafa news agency.

Jarar said in a phone interview with Wafa that the mass displacement order made via loudspeakers affected the residents of the neighbourhoods in Mahyoub Street, Jabal Abu Dhahir, and other areas.

He added that the soldiers opened one passage out of the camp for the displaced.

Jarar said the municipality contacted the municipalities of Burqin, Kafr Dan and Arrabeh to send vehicles to transport the displaced families and secure them in these towns.

According to Wafa, the mayor pointed out that Israeli forces prevent the movement of municipal crews in Jenin. He also contacted several international institutions to secure the emergency needs of those forcibly evacuated.

Jarar said the ongoing Israeli military operation made it difficult to count the number of families forced to flee.


2,000 families displaced in ‘nearly uninhabitable’ Jenin camp: UNRWA official

The Israeli military’s ongoing raid in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, where 2,000 families are already displaced, has rendered it “nearly uninhabitable”, according to Roland Friedrich, the director of UNRWA affairs for the occupied West Bank. UNRWA is the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

The scale of the operation has made it impossible for UNRWA to provide “full services to the camp” right now, Friedrich added, noting that new Israeli restrictions on UNRWA set to come into effect in a week will further “undermine” the agency’s mission.



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli forces issue demolition notices against seven Palestinian homes in Hebron: Report

Israeli forces have issued notices of upcoming demolitions for seven Palestinian homes in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

According to local sources cited by Wafa, one of the homes belongs to relatives of a detainee, and the occupants were only given seven days to evacuate the house.

Israeli forces also stormed the village of Ras al-Joura north of Hebron, and raided several shops, Wafa reported.


Israel detains 30 workers in the occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have briefly detained nearly 30 Palestinian workers who were constructing a road in the Khirbet ad-Dir area, in the town of Tuqu southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa.

No reason was provided for their detention, said the Palestinian news agency, which cited local sources as saying the workers were subjected to harsh field interrogations and forced to sit on the ground.

Israeli forces continue to carry out field interrogations in multiple areas of the West Bank, alongside scaling up their raids on the territory.


Israeli settler attack wounds five near Hebron: Report

Dozens of Israeli settlers have stormed the Palestinian village of Khirbet Aqwiwis in the occupied West Bank and assaulted residents, reports the Wafa news agency, citing a local activist.

The settlers beat and pepper-sprayed residents, said Wafa. Several people, including elderly residents, were hospitalised with head wounds and fractures.

The attack comes after earlier settler assaults this week in the Palestinian villages of Jinsafut and Funduq. Those attacks, as we’ve reported, took place under Israeli army protection, injuring at least 12 people, with settlers setting cars and buildings ablaze.


A truck that was torched in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Jinsafut



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli military continues to burn down homes in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli military is burning down and destroying homes in the village of Taybeh on the eastern sector of the border. Local media outlets also reported a massive explosion in neighbouring Kfar Kila that was heard across the entire region.

The Israeli military has been carrying out daily attacks in south Lebanon in violation of the November 27 ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. The deal stipulates that Israeli forces must withdraw completely from Lebanon by Sunday.

Houthi media confirm release of Galaxy Leader crew

Yemen’s Houthi militia has confirmed it has freed the 25-member crew of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, which it seized in November 2023.

The Houthi supreme council “has announced the freeing of the crew of the Galaxy Leader, who were arrested on November 19, 2023 during the campaign in solidarity with Gaza”, the Houthi-run Saba news agency said, adding that the release came “in support of the ceasefire” in Gaza, which began on Sunday.

The Houthis have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea area during the Gaza war in what they describe as a show of their solidarity with the Palestinians. Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire last week, suspending a 15-month war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.


Houthi soldiers board the cargo ship Galaxy Leader in November 2023

UN special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg has welcomed the Houthi’s release of the Galaxy Leader crew, saying it was a “step in the right direction.”

“The release of the Galaxy Leader crew is heartwarming news that puts an end to the arbitrary detention and separation that they and their families endured for more than a year,” he wrote on X.

“This is a step in the right direction, and I urge Ansar Allah [the Houthis] to continue these positive steps on all fronts, including ending all maritime attacks.”