JENIN, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 (WAFA) – Seven Palestinian civilians, including a doctor, a schoolteacher, and a student, were killed on Tuesday morning, and 12 others were injured, including two seriously, as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the city of Jenin and its camp.
The Ministry of Health said that seven people were killed and 12 others were injured by occupation forces, including two with serious injuries, during confrontations that broke out after the occupation forces stormed Jenin camp.
The director of Jenin Governmental Hospital, Wissam Bakr, said that among the slain civilians was the surgical specialist at Jenin Hospital, Oussaid Jabareen, who was targeted in the vicinity of the hospital, teacher Allam Jaradat, who was on duty in a school, and Mahmoud Hamadna, a student in the 9th grade, while he was on his way back home.
According to the Red Crescent, there are school students among the injured in Jenin, and the occupation army is obstructing medical crews from reaching them.
The Director of Education in Jenin, Salam Al-Taher, said that all schools in the city of Jenin and its camp were evacuated, with the exception of some students in Al-Karama and Al-Zahraa schools due to the seriousness of the current events.
The head of the Popular Committee for Jenin Camp Services, Muhammad al-Sabbagh, explained that students from UNRWA schools are still besieged.
WAFA correspondent said that the occupation bulldozers continue to raze and destroy the infrastructure near Jenin Governmental Hospital, noting that in the almost daily incursions into the Jenin camp, the Israeli bulldozers and vehicles deliberately destroy the infrastructure in the main and secondary streets, and in the city’s neighborhoods.
According to security sources, the occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp, and drove through the streets of Jenin, Haifa, Nablus, and Burqin Road, sparking confrontations, which took place in the vicinity of Jenin camp and Wadi Burqin.
With the killing of the seven civilians, the death toll in the West Bank since October 7th rises to 513.
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