A Palestinian citizen inspects the effects of the destruction caused by the occupation forces to his house in the village of Sir, south of Jenin (French)

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army re-stormed the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, for the second time within hours. After it stormed last night into several cities in the West Bank, the number of whose citizens it has detained since October 7 has reached 7,000 detainees.

Eyewitnesses said that an occupation army force stormed the city of Jenin and its camp surroundings, for the second time within hours, from several fronts, and besieged several neighborhoods, amid the flight of drones. He also sent military reinforcements there.

Earlier, the occupation army carried out a military operation in the city of Jenin and its camp at dawn today, which lasted about 5 hours, amid the outbreak of armed clashes between resistance fighters and the occupation forces, which destroyed the infrastructure in various parts of the camp.

The occupation army announced that two of its soldiers sustained “minor wounds” during its storming of the Jenin camp this morning, and they were transferred to receive treatment.

The occupation army also carried out a series of raids into cities and camps in the West Bank. A young Palestinian man was killed by the occupation forces’ bullets at dawn today in the city of Qalqilya. Eyewitnesses reported that the young man was shot in the head after being exposed to gunfire from the occupation forces in the Al-Bireen area, south of the city, leaving him to bleed until he died.

The Palestinian Red Crescent had previously announced that the occupation forces prevented its crews from reaching the young man and treating him until they withdrew from the area.

In the town of Al-Walaja, near the city of Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, the occupation army demolished two residential apartments in the town under the pretext of building without a license. Khader Al-Araj, head of the Al-Walaja village council, said that a large force of the Israeli army stormed the village, accompanied by bulldozers, and demolished two apartments under the pretext of building without a license.

He pointed out that the Israeli authorities continue their policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. He added: Hundreds of homes over the past years have been demolished in Al-Walajah under the pretext of building without a license.

A group of participants in a solidarity stand with the prisoners in the city of Al-Bireh, south of the West Bank (Anatolia)

7 thousand detainees

Regarding the arrest campaigns that the occupation army continues during incursions into the West Bank, the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club issued a statement. A joint statement today stated that the number of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank has reached 7,000 since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood since October 7, 2023, following the Israeli army’s arrest of 22 others during its storming of several governorates on Monday evening and Tuesday dawn.

The statement explained that the total number of arrests includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage, adding that the Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 22 citizens from the West Bank, including a child, from Monday evening until Tuesday morning. And siblings and former prisoners.

The statement stated that the arrests were concentrated in the Jenin Governorate, while the rest of the arrests were distributed in the governorates of Qalqilya, Salfit, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. It said that the arrests were accompanied by sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes, in addition to severe beatings against the detainees and their families, and the confiscation of money.

On the same level, dozens of Palestinians in the city of Al-Bireh in the West Bank today organized a stand in solidarity with the prisoners in Israeli prisons, at the invitation of the institutions specialized in prisoner affairs and the national and Islamic forces.

A number of prisoners' families participated in this protest, and the participants denounced the Israeli practices against the prisoners and called for urgent international and human rights intervention.

The head of the Supreme Commission for Prisoners' Affairs in Ramallah, Amin Shoman, said - on the sidelines of the protest - that prisoners in Israeli prisons have been subjected to assault, starvation and humiliation since last October 7, adding that what is happening in Israeli prisons has never happened before, whether in Guantanamo or Abu Dhabi. strange.

The West Bank is witnessing a wave of tension and field confrontations between Palestinians and the occupation army, interspersed with raids and arrests of Palestinians, coinciding with a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that left tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies