Israel destroys buildings in West Bank’s Jenin after killing elderly man | Occupied West Bank News

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that Israel destroyed multiple buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, hours after its forces were killed by a 73 -year -old man.
At least 20 homes were destroyed in the attack on Sunday, in the explosions very strong they heard through them Jenin In the surrounding cities, the Palestinian News Agency reported.
The Arabian Peninsula correspondents added that the explosions had detonated a residential bloc in the Al -Maskal neighborhood.
The Israeli army confirmed the attack, saying that it had destroyed “many buildings” in Jenin, which was “used as a terrorist infrastructure”, without providing evidence. He added that she had killed 50 Palestinian fighters in the West Bank since mid -January.
In a separate incident in Aroob, in the southern West Bank, the Israeli army killed a 27 -year -old man, named after Muhammad Amjad Hadash, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The Israeli army launched a Major attack In the occupied West Bank last month, it is called “Iron Wall”, which mainly focused on attacking Palestinian armed groups from the Jenin region, after the ceasefire with the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza began on January 19.
On Sunday, explosions are determined as an escalation, as Israel is committing attacks that are increasingly unrestricted by the Palestinian infrastructure.
“The voices are horrific,” Hanna Al -Hannah Hassan, resident of Jinin, told Al Jazerera on the phone about the explosions.
Hassan and Jenin’s other employees have faced continuous attacks for two weeks. She added that the curfew was in place, with stores and other companies closed.
The director of the Jenin Governmental Hospital, Wesam Baker, told WAFA that some hospital segments were damaged by the explosions, but no victims were reported.
The news agency said that many families are now due to the demolitions.
Ahmed Toubasi, a resident of Jenin, said that the homes in the Jenin camp “are no longer suitable for living” because of Israel’s destruction of infrastructure.
“The Israeli army does not need any excuse to destroy our homes and remove our homes,” one of Jenin’s residents told the island.
“This is a very long old plan for the Israeli army, especially for [refugee] The camps, because they want to kill and make the Palestinian cause die. “
He added: “Therefore, it is not a matter of terrorism; these are natural housing, the people who live – and when you talk about one house, it is not one family that lives there. In Jenin Camp, you find one house with three to four families.”
An elderly man killed
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Sunday that the explosions occurred shortly after the killing of a 73 -year -old man by Israeli weapons fire in the Jenin refugee camp.
“The Israeli army has created multiple road barriers and other checkpoints across the occupied West Bank, and there were at least 27 Palestinians who were killed,” Hamad Qalout of Al -Jazeera said.
“Many of them are civilians, including a two -year -old girl who was shot at her head while eating dinner at home with her family, and an old man of 73 years old called Israeli forces this morning.”
Witnesses reported a large deployment of Israeli forces on Sunday morning about the cities of Topas and Tamoun, southeast of Jenin.
The army said early on Sunday that a “tactical group” started its operations around Tamon and revealed weapons.
He added that it was the “fighting terrorism” process to five villages.
The publications in Arabic also distributed, saying that the operation was aimed at “eliminating armed criminals and Lackeys of IRAN.”
The Israeli government accuses Iran, which supports armed groups across the Middle East, including Hamas in Gaza, of trying to send weapons and money to Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank.
The Jenin operation in Israel also explained about 15,000 Palestinians.
The cemetery of the settlers, a mosque
Also on Sunday, Israeli settlers stormed a cemetery in the town of Silouan, south of the old city in occupied East Jerusalem, under the protection of the Israeli army, according to WAFA.
The local sources, which were reported by the Palestinian News Agency, said that the settlers cut the fence, which was placed by the town’s residents around the cemetery and took control of it.
Meanwhile, Palestinian outlets stated that a mosque in the Arab Bedouin village, northwest of Jericho, was fire by Israeli settlers.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attacks.
Violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers against the Palestinians has risen across the occupied West Bank Gaza war He broke out in 2023.
Soldiers or settlers have killed at least 882 Palestinians since the beginning of the war, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Settlements are illegal under international law, but they continue to expand throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem with full support for the Israeli government.
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2025-02-02 16:27:00