Confrontations during a previous Israeli storming of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank (Al Jazeera)

The Israeli army and settlers stormed areas in the West Bank before dawn on Wednesday, while the Palestinian resistance vowed to respond to the assassination of 3 of its members by Israeli force fire inside Jenin Hospital.

Al Jazeera's correspondent said that a group of settlers stormed the village of Sinjil, north of the city of Ramallah, which had previously been subjected to numerous Israeli incursions.

Palestinian press sources also reported that settlers stormed the home of the family of the martyr Jalal Shahwan in the village of Bitello, northwest of Ramallah, and beat the residents of the house and targeted cars.

Settlers' attacks have increased in the past few weeks with the escalation of operations carried out by the occupation forces in the West Bank since the resistance launched the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle operation on October 7th.

Press sources: Settler militias attacked the house of the martyr Jalal Shahwan and beat the family and cars in the village of Bitello, northwest of Ramallah. pic.twitter.com/SLH2gmvk6e

- Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) January 30, 2024

Bullets and raids

In the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that a young Palestinian man was injured late Tuesday evening by bullets fired by the occupation forces as they stormed the town of Qaffin, north of Tulkarm.

The Israeli army stormed the village and deployed in several neighborhoods, assaulting a group of young men and raiding homes. It also stormed the old village mosque, leading to confrontations with Palestinians that led to one of them being injured in the back before being transported to the hospital.

Occupation forces storm the Askar camp east of Nablus, coinciding with the sounds of clashes being heard #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/99auiwRqz5

- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 31, 2024

Before dawn, Israeli forces stormed neighborhoods in the city of Nablus, accompanied by a bulldozer and military vehicles.

The occupation forces also raided the new Askar camp, east of the city, amid gunfire by resistance fighters towards occupation vehicles and soldiers.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces surrounded the camp and deployed sniper teams in several locations overlooking it.

The forces also stormed the city of Qalqila and the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, according to Palestinian sources.

According to Al Jazeera's correspondent, the occupation forces stormed Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, closed its entrances, and arrested a number of young men.

The resistance threatens

Meanwhile, the West Bank is witnessing a state of anger following the assassination by an Israeli force of 3 Palestinian resistance fighters inside Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, claiming that they were members of an armed cell affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and were planning attacks.

In an operation that was the first in about 8 years, a force of 10 people in civilian clothes, including some wearing doctors’ uniforms and some wearing regular civilian clothes or women’s uniforms, infiltrated the hospital, headed to the third floor, and executed the three young men, including a wounded man lying in the hospital receiving treatment. .

Among the three martyrs were Muhammad Walid Jalamneh, one of the most prominent field commanders in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Hamas movement - in the Jenin Governorate, and Basil Ayman Ghazawi, one of the leaders and founders of the Jenin Brigade in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and one of the field commanders in the Jenin Governorate. Embryo.

The Al-Qassam Brigades - Jenin Brigade mourned the three resistance fighters and said, "Blood will be met with blood, and these sacrifices will not be in vain."

The Al-Quds Brigades also mourned them and said that they would continue fighting to restore the rights of the Palestinian people, and added that their weapons would be lawful in all arenas.

The Hamas movement denounced the assassination and described it as a full-fledged war crime, while the Islamic Jihad movement said that the operation constitutes a new violation of humanitarian norms and international laws, noting that it amounts to a war crime.

For its part, the administration of Ibn Sina Hospital considered this raid to be a dangerous precedent and a new chapter in the escalating targeting of medical institutions and the patients inside them.

Thus, the number of martyrs in the West Bank since October 7 has risen to 381 due to the occupation’s incursions and settler attacks.

Source: Al Jazeera