Palestine mourns one of its most tragic mornings in recent years. At least nine people have been killed by the Israeli army in Yenínal norte from occupied west bank. Among the dead is a 60-year-old woman. The raid on the refugee camp in the Palestinian city has left a twenty injured in his wake. So far this year, Israeli forces have killed more than one Palestinian a daysince, for now, there are more Palestinian victims -at least 29- than days in 2023.
Tension and tears take over the city of Jenin, the focus of violence aggravated in the last year by the Israeli military offensives in occupied territory. After the raid of the soldiers in the refugee camp at dawnthe situation has escalated to become one of the deadliest days of the last five years. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli forces have obstructed the work of medical personnel and ambulances, firing at one of them. The wounded continue to follow one another at the doors of the hospitals despite the fact that the military tries to prevent them from arriving.
“Unprecedented invasion”
“There is an invasion that is unprecedented in the past period, in terms of its size and the number of wounded,” he said. Wissam Bakerdirector of the public hospital in Jenin, to Al Jazeera. “The ambulance driver He tried to reach one of the martyrs who was on the ground, but the Israeli forces shot directly at the ambulance and prevented them from getting close to him,” he added. Furthermore, according to Baker, Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas canisters towards the hospital that have leaked into the pediatric ward, causing choking injuries, even among children.
This large-scale incursion began at dawn when the Israeli Army besieged the refugee camp of Jenin with covert forces, dozens of armored vehicles and snipers. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), as the Hebrew State Army is known, together with the Shin Bet intelligence service and the police, have announced that with this operation they have frustrated a mass terrorist attack that some of the murdered were preparing. With the arrival of the IDF, the palestinian resistance has responded by unleashing armed confrontations.
For now, they are 29 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during raids on the West Bank and East Jerusalem so far this year. Among the deceased are five boys and 15 of the victims were from the city of Jenin. Over the past year, Israeli army raids have killed more than 170 livesmany of them civilians, making 2022 one of the deadliest years since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. with hardly any reproaches by the international community, Israel continues to apply the same strategy of violence and cornering of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories.