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Three Palestinians Killed, Ten Injured, in an Israeli Drone Strike, in Jenin

by IMEMC News
Dec 14, 2023

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, and injured ten, three seriously, when an armed drone fired a missile at a group of citizens in the Eastern neighborhood of Jenin city, in the northern occupied West Bank.

Late Wednesday night, Israeli forces stormed the eastern neighborhood in the city of Jenin, leading to protests among local Palestinian youths, while reconnaissance drones hovered overhead.

Soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the neighborhood, while firing tear gas canisters and live ammunition, and they were met with fierce resistance from armed Palestinian fighters who exchanged heavy fire with the occupation army.

An armed drone fired a missile at a group of Palestinian men, killing three young men and a child and injuring 10 others including three seriously, near the Khaled Bin Al-Waleed Mosque in the Eastern neighborhood.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its crews transported three who were killed and three who sustained serious injuries to hospitals in the city.

Two of the slain Palestinians were identified as Ahmed Jamal Abu Zina, 27, and the child, Bashar Haitham Abu Zaid.

Medical sources at Ibn Sina Hospital said that they received two Palestinians killed by a drone strike, and five who were injured, including one seriously, the sources at Al-Razi Hospital said that five injuries, two of whom were deemed in serious condition, arrived at the hospital.

On Thursday morning, the Ministry of Health announced that a third young man identified as Ayoub Muhammad Saleh Jalamneh, 27, had succumbed to serious wounds as a result of the drone strike in the eastern neighborhood.

More than five “Energa” missiles were fired into an unknown number of homes after they were evacuated and their residents interrogated in the Eastern neighborhood.
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Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinians, Abduct More Than 100,in Jenin

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Dec 13, 2023

Israeli forces killed two more Palestinian young men, on Tuesday, during the continuous aggression against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, while a sick child died as a result of the army blocking ambulances from reaching the hospital.

The Israeli army abducted at least 100 Palestinian citizens including women and former prisoners and bombed at least five civilian homes on Tuesday night in the Eastern neighborhood and the refugee camp.

The Ministry of Health announced, on Tuesday afternoon that Fouad Imad Abahra, 36, died after the army shot him in the thigh near the Al-Qadi Mosque in the city, and then prevented the ambulance from transporting him to hospital for thirty minutes.

According to Fawaz Hammad, the director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, the young man, Rashad Muhammad Turkman, 18, died on Tuesday evening, after he sustained a critical gunshot injury inflicted on him by the Israeli army.

The death of Abahra and Turkman bring the number of Palestinians killed in the latest aggression against Jenin and its camp, to six.
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Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinians, Bomb a Home, in Jenin

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Dec 12, 2023

In a massive military assault, the Israeli forces killed four Palestinian young men after firing a missile at them, and injuring others, including one seriously in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp.

During the protracted attack, the army bombed a home and a commercial shop in the refugee camp, and abducted six young men in the city.

In the predawn hours of Tuesday, a large army force accompanied by several military bulldozers invaded the city of Jenin from Jenin-Nazareth Street.

Sirens wailed through the loudspeakers of mosques throughout the city, while military vehicles were deployed heavily in various streets of the city and in the vicinity of the Jenin refugee camp.
The army positioned sharpshooters on the rooftops of many residential buildings in several neighborhoods in the city, amid the intense flight of reconnaissance drones.

According to Wissam Bakr, the director of the Jenin Governmental Hospital, four Palestinian young men were killed when a military drone fired a missile directly at them in the Sibat neighborhood of the city.

The slain young men were identified as Rafiq Al-Dabbous, Mahmoud Abu Srour, Bakr Zakarneh, and Thaer Abu Al-Tin, 18, and seriously injured at least one other young man.
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At least six young men were abducted from their homes. They were identified as Jalal Al-Sous, Bahaa and Diaa Abu Zaid, Majd Arabawi, Yassin Sahi Hanoun, Alaa Musabah Abu Al-Haija, and Muhannad Abu Al-Haija.
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3-Day Israeli Raid in Jenin Kills at Least 12 Palestinians, West Bank Officials Say

Residents said Israeli military vehicles left the city on Thursday, signaling an end to the operation inside Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank.

By Hiba Yazbek for The New York times
reporting from Jerusalem

Dec. 14, 2023
Updated 2:19 p.m. ET

A three-day Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin appeared to end on Thursday; the Palestinian Health Ministry said that during the raid, Israeli forces killed at least 12 people and wounded 34 others.

Residents reported seeing Israeli military vehicles leaving the city on Thursday afternoon, signaling an end to the unusually long operation inside Jenin and its refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed resistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Israeli military in a statement on Thursday said it completed “a 60-hour-long extensive operation in the Jenin refugee camp and in the city of Jenin.” It reported detaining “14 wanted suspects, including three affiliated with Hamas,” as well as some 60 others during “hundreds of raids,” and said it “eliminated 10 terrorists.”

Seven Israeli soldiers were lightly injured in the operations that the military said “exposed more than ten underground facilities, dozens of rifles,” illicit funds and seven explosives labs.

The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out a drone strike that killed several people who had fired on Israeli forces.

More than 100 Palestinians were arrested during the raid, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, a nongovernmental rights group.

Israeli military incursions in Jenin, commonplace for years, have become more frequent since the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel. The Israeli military describes the search-and-arrest operations as part of its counterterrorism efforts against Hamas in the West Bank.

Residents and local leaders in the Jenin refugee camp say that the raids are aimed at displacing residents and making conditions there unlivable.

“The raids have gotten more frequent and also more aggressive and violent,” said Mohammad Al Masri, a member of the local committee that runs the camp, adding: “They’ve started coming in and not differentiating between fighter and civilian.”

At least 78 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military raids in Jenin since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, making it the deadliest period in the city in recent years. Across the West Bank, at least 286 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, most during Israeli raids but others in clashes with extremist Israeli settlers.

The Israeli military has launched dozens of raids in Jenin over the last two months, most aimed at the refugee camp, according to residents, camp committee members, Israeli military statements and Palestinian media reports. The camp is a built-up, impoverished neighborhood that houses Palestinian refugees who were forcibly displaced during the wars that surrounded Israel’s creation in 1948 as well as their descendants. The raids usually occur overnight and involve bulldozers, which have destroyed much of the area’s infrastructure.

“It’s collective punishment,” said Mohammad Sabaghi, the head of the committee that runs the camp. “There’s nothing that hasn’t been damaged or destroyed. Water, electricity, phone lines, the sewage system — everything.”

The Palestinian Authority’s health minister, Mai Al-Kaila, said in a statement on Thursday that the situation in Jenin’s hospitals was “very difficult, in light of the escalating aggression” over the past three days. Hospitals were “being subjected to a fierce attack,” the statement said, adding that Israeli forces were obstructing arrivals of wounded people, searching and detaining medical workers, and attacking ambulances.

The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment on these accusations.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said that a father in Jenin had carried his 13-year-old son on foot to a hospital on Wednesday “because Israeli armored cars blocked ambulances,” adding that the boy had been pronounced dead on arrival.

Wisam Baker, the director of the Jenin Hospital, the nearest medical center to the refugee camp, said in an interview that Israeli forces had set up checkpoints outside the hospital during some raids, complicating efforts to deliver medical care to people injured in the incursions.

“It’s difficult for our medical teams to go out and come in, and difficult for patients to enter the hospital, because it’s dangerous,” he said.

Christina Goldbaum contributed reporting.

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