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A minimum of 10 Palestinians have been killed and 20 others injured throughout a raid by Israeli forces in Jenin metropolis and refugee camp within the occupied West Financial institution, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being has mentioned.
Intense combating was reported within the camp on Thursday. Black smoke was seen rising over the town amid a number of explosions and gunfire.
“Often, you may hear gunshots, there are explosions, and you’ll take heed to an Israeli navy drone overhead,” Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reported from Jenin. “It began within the early hours of this morning with a raid on the camp. Nothing uncommon about that – raids are a truth of life within the occupied West Financial institution, significantly right here in Jenin.”
“However we’re informed the navy got here in and left behind particular forces who had been on the lookout for Palestinian fighters. As soon as they had been noticed, the particular forces known as for backup, and this main gun battle has been occurring since then,” Smith mentioned.
Israel’s navy mentioned it was conducting counterterrorism raids in Jenin, however gave no additional particulars.
“The Israeli military will all the time say they’re going after what they name ‘Palestinian terrorists’, and that’s the aim of those raids. However since October 7, they’ve stepped up operations. Whereas they’re occurring all around the occupied West Financial institution, most of them are right here in Jenin, the place there are totally different armed teams,” in line with Smith.
Palestinian information company Wafa reported that numerous Israeli troops entered the camp, accompanied by a bulldozer. Snipers positioned themselves on rooftops because the bulldozer proceeded to destroy roads and infrastructure.
Palestinian information outlet Quds Community posted footage of the moments after Israeli forces bombed a home within the Jenin camp.
Within the video posted to social media, smoke may be seen billowing out of a constructing after it was hit by what the community says was an Israeli drone. Stay photographs had been fired within the ensuing clashes.
“Israeli raids within the occupied West Financial institution have intensified within the final three hours,” Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom reported from Ramallah.
“Witnesses in Jenin are reporting explosions, at the least 5 within the final half hour alone, and attribute them to armed Israeli drones,” he added.
“Israeli forces have additionally dropped leaflets saying that the raids will solely intensify.”
The palestine Purple Crescent Society (PRCS) mentioned a paramedic was injured with stay bullets when an ambulance got here beneath hearth through the raid.
⭕️ PRCS: Paramedic Sabreen Obeidi was injured with stay bullets within the again. 🚑 This occurred when a PRCS ambulance was focused throughout a raid by occupation forces in #Jenin Refugee Camp.#NotATarget ❌palestine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>#palestine pic.twitter.com/pgvx1ZaNFg
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 9, 2023
Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, has condemned the lethal raid on the densely populated camp, the place about 14,000 folks stay.
“The occupation that suffers defeat in Gaza will even undergo defeat in Jenin and won’t achieve breaking the need of our folks from Gaza to the West Financial institution,” the group mentioned in a press release.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in latest months by Israeli forces in Jenin, significantly within the metropolis’s refugee camp the place armed teams are current alongside tens of 1000’s of residents.
Because the battle started on October 7, Israeli forces have arrested greater than 2,000 folks throughout the West Financial institution, in line with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Membership advocacy group.
The Israeli navy has put the determine at greater than 1,000 and mentioned most are affiliated with Hamas.
A minimum of 174 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed throughout the West Financial institution since October 7, when Hamas launched an assault on southern Israel that killed greater than 1,400 folks, principally civilians.
Since then, Israel has launched an air and floor assault on Gaza that has to date killed at the least 10,812 Palestinians, together with greater than 4,400 kids. A minimum of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza are actually internally displaced, in line with UN estimates, as giant swaths of the besieged territory lie in ruins.
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