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19 people killed as Israeli forces continue large-scale military onslaught against Jenin city and its camp


JENIN: The Israeli occupation forces continued their onslaught against the city of Jenin and its camp for the eighth consecutive day.

The onslaught resulted so far in the killing of 19 people, the injury and arrest of dozens, in addition to the widespread destruction of citizens’ properties and infrastructure, including water and electricity networks.

Yesterday, the child Lujain Abdul Raouf,16, was killed, and four journalists were injured, including photojournalists of the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) Muhammad Mansour and Ayman Noubani, during the occupation forces’ siege of a house in the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.

The occupation forces also raided several houses in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood on the outskirts of Jenin camp, tampered with their contents and destroyed their furniture.

The occupation forces stormed the Al-Zahraa neighborhood in the city and bulldozed the infrastructure and streets, while water continues to be cut off from most of the city’s neighborhoods and the c
amp.

In the same context, the occupation forces continue to destroy the center of Jenin city, as the occupation bulldozers razed Cinema Street and large parts of Hospitals Street to the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, and destroyed shops in the Cinema Roundabout area and re-razed Post Street.

The occupation bulldozers attacked a group of journalists while they were covering the destruction of Cinema Roundabout and the surrounding shops, and opened fire directly on them, which resulted in the injury of several journalists.

In Al-Jabariyat neighborhood, the occupation forces stormed the house of the detainee Zakaria Al-Zubaidi and detained his brother Yahya, after vandalizing and destroying the contents of the house.

The occupation forces also continued their large-scale detention campaigns of young men in Jenin camp and the villages of Al-Silah Al-Harithiya, Al-Yamoun and Kafr Dan west of Jenin.

Later last night, the occupation forces stormed the town of Qabatiya along with an Israeli special force, They b
egan shooting at citizens’ homes, which resulted in a young man being shot in the chest while he was inside his home.

Last night, the occupation forces also detained an ambulance crew while transporting an emergency medical case to Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin and assaulted a number of them.

At dawn today, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Muthalath Al-Shuhada, south of Jenin, deployed snipers on the roofs of several houses, raided six houses, detained a number of citizens before withdrawing from the town.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA