Martyrs in Jenin and Hamas warn of the explosion of the situation due to the occupation’s restrictions on Al-Aqsa

Occupation army soldiers and vehicles during a previous storming of Jenin camp (Anatolia Agency)

Official Palestinian sources reported that a new martyr had fallen in the Jenin camp in the West Bank - at dawn today, Wednesday - by bullets from the Israeli occupation army, bringing the number of martyrs in the camp since last night to 4 martyrs, while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) warned that the situation in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem is at risk of explosion. If the occupation authorities restrict the entry of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that the young man, Arif Marwan Arif Ali (26 years old), was killed by occupation bullets in the Jenin camp, while the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its crews transported one martyr and 3 injured people from the camp to Jenin Governmental Hospital.

Jenin camp witnessed violent clashes last night, Tuesday, and early Wednesday, between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces, which stormed the camp for several hours amid intense overflights by Apache helicopters and marches, before they withdrew from it at dawn today.

The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that clashes broke out in the Jenin camp during a special Israeli force of "Mostaza'ribin" storming the camp "to arrest a wanted person, resulting in the killing of 3 Palestinians."

Israeli Army Radio said that a drone attacked a cell in Jenin and that Israeli forces arrested 40 young Palestinians in the camp.

Farewell to the body of the martyr Arif Qaddumi after he died in a clash with the occupation forces in the Jenin camp in the West Bank #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/dekFXdS0I0

- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) February 21, 2024

Trap

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Arif al-Qaddoumi in the Jenin camp last night, during a raid reinforced by a large number of military vehicles and bulldozers.

He explained that the martyr was the perpetrator of the operation in the village of Imatin, north of Nablus in the West Bank, last September, and that the occupation forces have been pursuing him ever since. The operation he carried out resulted in the death of an Israeli soldier and the injury of another.

The reporter said that ambulance crews found the body of the martyr Arif Al-Qaddoumi inside the camp after the occupation forces withdrew from the city of Jenin and its camp.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that it had caught an Israeli force in a tight ambush during its storming of the Jenin camp, and the resistance fighters clashed with the occupation forces, which led to the death of 3 and the injury of others.

Al-Qassam explained that its members are confronting the occupation forces in Jenin with appropriate weapons and high-explosive devices.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that explosive devices were detonated in the occupation army's vehicles during its storming of the city of Jenin, and Israeli reconnaissance planes flew at a low altitude in the sky of the city of Jenin and its camp.

The reporter spoke about clashes between the Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian resistance fighters in the Jenin camp, pointing out that the occupation is carrying out large-scale destruction operations inside the Jenin camp.

The moment an explosive device was detonated by an occupation army bulldozer in Jenin, in the northern West Bank pic.twitter.com/hW9qb0A0xG

- Al Araby TV (@AlarabyTV) February 20, 2024

Intrusions

Meanwhile, yesterday evening, the Israeli occupation forces stormed, with a number of military vehicles, the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.

Israeli forces besieged several neighborhoods in the city and launched a campaign of raids on homes and shops, searching them and tampering with their contents under the pretext of searching for wanted persons.

Also in developments in the West Bank, Israeli media reported that the occupation forces opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle whose driver was suspected of trying to carry out a ramming attack at what is known as the Me’a Junction near the Gush Etzion settlement, north of Hebron.

According to Israeli reports, no injuries were reported among the Israelis, while the fate of the vehicle driver is not yet known.

Warnings

For its part, Hamas warned yesterday, Tuesday, that any restrictions that the Israeli occupation authorities may impose on Muslims entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem during the upcoming month of Ramadan will lead to an explosion in the face of the Israeli occupation.

This came in a statement issued by a member of the movement’s political bureau, Izzat Al-Rishq, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a recommendation by the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, to restrict and limit the entry of Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem and Palestinians from inside Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.

Al-Rishq said, "The explosion is coming in the face of the occupation in response to any restrictions on Muslims entering Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan."

Netanyahu's decision regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque comes about 5 months after the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which left tens of thousands martyred and injured, most of them women and children.

The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said - last Sunday - that the Shin Bet warned political officials that preventing Palestinians inside the country from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan could lead to major unrest.

The Shin Bet said that the explosion of the situation in the city of Jerusalem and Israel would be more dangerous than the explosion of the situation in the West Bank, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.

Since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation police have imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers from all regions to Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially during Fridays.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies