The occupation storms Jenin again and bulldozes the streets, and the resistance confronts it

An Al Jazeera correspondent reported that clashes broke out early today between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the center of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, after large occupation forces, supported by various vehicles, stormed the city from several axes and deployed there and around the camp. Sniper teams were deployed on the roofs of buildings late. From the night.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent indicated that the resistance clashed with the occupation forces and threw explosive devices towards Israeli vehicles, while the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that two Palestinians were wounded by occupation bullets in the city of Jenin.

#urgent| Press coverage: “Shooting targets the occupation forces during the storming of the camp and city of Jenin.” pic.twitter.com/NrH409NG2C

– Al-Qastal News | Jerusalem (@AlQastalps) November 16, 2023

The occupation soldiers barricaded themselves in several buildings, and sniper teams were deployed, especially in the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood, Al-Damj neighborhood, and the outskirts of the camp, where armed clashes were taking place. The occupation forces also raided the homes of a number of citizens. While reconnaissance planes flew over the sky of the city and its camp, bulldozers destroyed and bulldozed several streets, and the occupation army sent reinforcements to the area.

The reporter pointed out that there was a power outage in the city and the camp following the storming.

Press coverage: The occupation continues to vandalize and bulldoze the streets in Jenin and the camp. pic.twitter.com/CZimoKAwhX

– Quds News Network (@qudsn) November 16, 2023

In this context, the official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that the occupation forces raided the Abu Dhaheer neighborhood, the Jabriyat neighborhood, the outskirts of the Jenin camp, the vicinity of the district headquarters (a security complex), the cinema roundabout, the interior roundabout, the city center, and the vicinity of Jenin Governmental Hospital, amid the flight of occupation drones in the sky of the city.

Earlier in the night, Palestinian sources and platforms reported that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements, including bulldozers, to Jenin in a new incursion into the city and its camp, which – over the past days – have witnessed occupation incursions.

These Palestinian platforms also published scenes that they said showed sirens sounding in the city of Jenin and its camp, coinciding with the invasion of the occupation forces.

Activists on social media circulated video clips in which the sounds of intense gunfire were heard, and their publishers said they were the sounds of armed clashes.

Tunnel barrier operation

Earlier – yesterday, Thursday – the Al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank claimed responsibility for the storming of the tunnel checkpoint, south of occupied Jerusalem. Al-Qassam said, in a statement, that a group of its fighters raided enemy forces at the military checkpoint separating northern Bethlehem and southern occupied Jerusalem, and was able to kill and wound a number of Israeli soldiers, in retaliation for the blood of the martyrs in Gaza, according to the statement.

Three Palestinians were martyred after carrying out a shooting attack at the military tunnel checkpoint between the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, which resulted in the killing of an Israeli soldier and the wounding of 7 Israelis with varying injuries.

In response to the operation, large forces from the occupation army stormed the homes of the martyrs in the city of Hebron with military vehicles and arrested a number of their relatives, including mothers, siblings, and a 61-year-old woman. The Israeli army also raided the town of Husan near the city of Bethlehem and prevented residents from leaving their homes, and arrested a number. of its residents, and declared it a military zone.

For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the Israeli occupation authorities arrested at least 85 Palestinians in the West Bank last night from various cities and towns, including Jerusalem, bringing the number of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank to 2,735 since last October 7, including 1,050 activists from Hamas.

Tensions have escalated in the West Bank, and the number of martyrs there has reached about 200 since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of 11,500 Palestinians, including 4,710 children and 3,160 women, and the injury of 29,800 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.