JENIN, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening injured six Palestinians and detained another in the ongoing assault on Jenin city and refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, according to security and medical sources.
They said that the four youths sustained gunshot injuries from Israeli forces gunfire to the shoulder, abdomen and thigh in the city and refugee camp of Jenin in the course of the assault, which began in the early hours of Tuesday.
They elaborated that one of the four youths was shot and injured by a sniper stationed at a house while exiting the Jenin Hospital and two others of them were shot inside the camp. The fourth one sustained bruises and cuts after being rammed by an Israeli army vehicle.
In addition, a female paramedic sustained shrapnel injuries in the refugee camp and a 17-year-old teen was seriously injured from Israeli gunfire, and both were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its paramedics provided first aid treatment to two injuries; one in the chest and the other in the hand, and evacuated them to the hospital.
This came as the heavily armed soldiers showed up at a house in the Jenin city neighborhood of al-Marah, went inside, wreaked havoc inside, assaulted the family members and eventually detained a 50-year-old female family member.
Earlier, Amr Manasra, a photojournalist, was injured in the lower back by shrapnel from the occupation forces’ bullets while covering the military assault in the vicinity of Jenin Hospital. His condition was described as stable.
Meanwhile, security sources confirmed that the occupation forces continued the deliberate destruction of infrastructure and property, including streets, vegetable stalls and commercial shacks, and occupied scores of houses and turned them into outposts amid violent confrontations.
Israeli snipers deployed on the rooftops or windows of houses and opened fire at Palestinians, ambulances, medics and media staff.
The Israeli military demolished the house of Ahmed Barakat, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the town in March this year.
Barakat’s mother told WAFA that the bulldozers destroyed and demolished their 280 square meters two-storey house, without any prior notice.
She said the occupation forces did not allow them to remove the contents of the house; a home for ten family members, thus rendering them homeless.
Schools in Jenin as well as its refugee camp have been evacuated.
WAFA correspondent reported that the Jenin Government Hospital was under siege with surrounding streets bulldozed.
He added that Israeli snipers were extensively deployed and opened fire on anyone seen in the vicinity of the Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin and randomly opened fire towards those present in the courtyard of the Jenin Government Hospital.
Mustafa Hamrsha, the Medical Director at Jenin Hospital, said that the situation was difficult because medical staff were insufficient to handle the large number of injuries, as the occupation forces continued to prevent ambulances from reaching the injured, and the injured and medical personnel were prevented from entering the hospital premises.
Earlier, in the morning hours, the occupation forces shot and killed seven Palestinians, including a doctor, a teacher and two youths, and injured 19 others, including a journalist who was shot after the soldiers opened fire on a group of journalists covering the assault which began in the early hours of Tuesday.
Among the fatalities was Osayd Kamal Jabareen, the Head of the Surgery Department at Jenin Governmental Hospital, who was killed in the vicinity of the hospital, and Allam Jaradat, a 48-year-old school teacher, who was shot and killed whilst in his vehicle on his way to work.
Two youths, Mahmoud Amjad Hamdneh, 15, and Osama Mohammed, 16, were also shot and killed. The other slain Palestinian are Muammar Mohammad Abu Omeira, 50, Amir Issam Abu Omeria, 22, and Bassem Mahmoud Turkman, 53.
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