JENIN (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) declared the Jenin refugee camp a closed military zone, after storming it at dawn Thursday and besieging areas in its vicinity.
The IOF stormed as well other West Bank towns and cities and arrested several Palestinians.
The IOF escorted with bulldozers continued to destroy the infrastructure of the streets and markets of Jenin city and camp, as military vehicles encircled the vicinity of the camp and Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital, amid intense flying of drones.
Local Palestinian sources reported that clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the IOF during the Israeli raid of Jenin, noting that resistance fighters attacked the IOF with homemade explosives on Mahyoub Street in the city.
The Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades, the Jenin Brigade, announced that its fighters detonated several explosive devices that hit IOF military vehicles.
Palestinian sources reported that the IOF raided homes in the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood in the city of Jenin and blew up a motorcycle, while Israeli bulldozers carried out sabotage and destruction of the infrastructure and residents’ property on Nazareth Street in Jenin.
The IOF reportedly arrested a young man who was shot and denied the right to be moved to the hospital by ambulance crews who the IOF prevented from reaching him in the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood.
The mother of the wanted resistance fighter, Mustafa Al-Masry, from Wadi Burqin in Jenin, was also rounded up by the IOF.
Palestinian media platforms published footage documenting IOF storming the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, bulldozing streets, and destroying infrastructure.
In the West Bank, the IOF soldiers stormed the city of Dura in central Al-Khalil governorate and arrested an elderly Palestinian after assaulting him. They roamed the town, firing live bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades and set up barriers in the city, obstructing traffic, and attacking a number of shop owners.
In Nablus, the IOF stormed the towns of Madama, Urif, and Tal south of the city and the town of Rujeib in the east, storming several houses and causing dozens of injuries among Palestinians in Beita town in the northern West Bank.
