RAMALLAH: At least 11 Palestinians have been martyred during a days-long raid by Israeli forces in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health authorities said on Thursday, amid reports of gunfire, hundreds of arrests and restricted hospital access.
A young man succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning as a result of the Israeli operation in the northern West Bank city that started earlier in the week, the Palestinian health ministry said. Two other Palestinians were martyred overnight, it added.
Israeli troops have searched hundreds of compounds and questioned hundreds of suspects since the operation started on 12 December, the military said in a statement. They dismantled 6 explosives laboratories, underground tunnel shafts and explosive devices, it added.
Since the start of the raid in the morning of 12 December, Israeli troops have arrested hundreds of citizens, with the majority of them since released, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club, an advocacy group said in a statement.
Israel does not allow ambulances to enter the camp
Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jenin Mahmoud Al-Saadi said that Israel was not allowing ambulances to enter the camp to transport patients.
Al-Saadi said that they have 6 ambulances, but they cannot even reach the patients who need to be transported to the hospital, some of whom need dialysis.
The army did not allow the ambulances to enter, despite attempts to coordinate with the UN Palestinian relief agency and the Red Cross, he said, adding that soldiers were also deployed outside the Jenin Governmental Hospital.
Four soldiers were slightly wounded by controlled explosions and gunfire from Israel’s own troops, the military statement said. Soldiers occupied a mosque where sporadic shots could be heard in the distance, a footage circulating on social media showed.
