Part of a previous raid by the occupation forces into Tulkarm camp (Al Jazeera)

Israeli occupation forces stormed the cities of Tulkarm and Jenin in the West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, reinforced with dozens of military vehicles and bulldozers, amid clashes with Palestinian resistance and the start of bulldozing operations of streets and facilities in the areas they entered. The occupation army also launched raids in Aqabat Jabr camp in the city of Jericho and near the city of Hebron.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that dozens of occupation military vehicles, reinforced with bulldozers, stormed the city of Tulkarm in the north of the occupied West Bank from its western axis all the way to Nour Shams camp.

The reporter quoted the Palestinian Red Crescent as saying that 3 people were injured in a bomb explosion in Tulkarm camp.

Columns of smoke rise after the occupation forces were targeted with an explosive device during the storming of Jenin. pic.twitter.com/FyvstoCqZu

- Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) February 7, 2024

Local Palestinian platforms published video clips documenting the first moments of the occupation forces storming the city of Jenin and its camp in the West Bank.

The clips document the deployment of the occupation forces in the city's neighborhoods, the incursion of their vehicles into its neighborhoods, and the start of bulldozing operations of streets and facilities, with the sound of clashes being heard between the resistance fighters and the occupation soldiers.

The occupation bulldozer begins to destroy the street infrastructure in the vicinity of the Jenin camp #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/K8IOOcGiRZ

- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) February 7, 2024

Sirens sounded in the city of Jenin and its camp as the occupation forces and vehicles stormed the city from the Al-Jalama checkpoint and the Al-Muqaybla crossing from its northern axis, passing through Haifa Street and Al-Ahmadin Roundabout.

Raids

Meanwhile, the occupation forces raided, at dawn on Wednesday, a number of Palestinian homes in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the city of Jericho, east of the West Bank, under the pretext of searching for wanted persons.

They searched it and tampered with its contents. The occupation forces and vehicles stormed the camp, besieged neighborhoods inside it, and raided the homes of families of prisoners and martyrs in the camp.

In Hebron, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Samou', south of the city, raided some homes, and detained Palestinians after stopping their vehicles.

This comes at a time when settlers prevented Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands located south of the town, where such attacks have been escalating since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for 4 months.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces installed a military tower on Palestinian lands in the Umm Al-Shaqhan area in Musafer Yatta, south of Hebron, under the pretext of protecting the Avigal settlement established on Palestinian lands.

Palestinian lands near the Avigal settlement are subject to settlement expansion, especially after the occupation authorities legalized the settlement last year. The occupation forces detained children from the Shawaheen family while they were tending to sheep in Khallet Al-Adra in Musafer Yatta.

Yesterday, Tuesday, a young Palestinian man was killed by bullets from the occupation army near the Beit Furik military checkpoint, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the young man, Muhammad Titi, was martyred near the checkpoint, and that the occupation forces detained his body. The occupation army claimed in a statement that its forces killed the young man after he shot her, and that they found a pistol and a knife in his possession.

Video clips showed that the occupation soldiers prevented the martyr’s mother from reaching him to see him.

The number of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank has risen to 6,870 since October 7, including 215 women and more than 400 children, according to what the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported.

The occupation launched a campaign of raids and arrests in the West Bank coinciding with its aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of 27,585 Palestinians and the injury of 66,978 others.

Source: Al Jazeera