Deadly Israeli raid in Jenin leads to mass displacement, destruction

Israeli forces proceed cognition successful occupied West Bank city, a time aft 10 Palestinians were killed.

Israeli forces person continued their deadly raid successful Jenin successful the occupied West Bank, destroying infrastructure and forcing the displacement of astir 2,000 families.

The operations connected Wednesday included bulldozing cardinal streets and travel a time aft crushed and aerial attacks killed at slightest 10 people across Jenin governorate.

Kamal Abu al-Rub, the politician of Jenin, was quoted by the AFP quality bureau arsenic saying the concern successful Jenin was “very difficult”.

“The concern service has bulldozed each the roads starring to the Jenin [refugee] campy and Jenin Government Hospital. … There is shooting and explosions,” helium added.

According to al-Rub, Israeli forces besides detained astir 20 radical from villages adjacent Jenin.

Palestinian men clasp up ID cards to walk a checkpoint during an Israeli raid successful Jenin successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank connected January 22, 2025 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

The Israeli subject said successful a connection connected Wednesday that it carried retired aerial attacks connected “terror infrastructure sites”, adding that “numerous explosives planted connected the routes” were “dismantled”.

“The Israeli forces are continuing the operation,” it added.

Adel Besher, a Jenin resident, told Al Jazeera helium had to walk the nighttime successful a infirmary courtyard due to the fact that helium was incapable to scope location during the Israeli operations.

“Even though my location is 200 metres [220 yards] from here, I couldn’t scope it. There are galore injured people, among them doctors, nurses and patients,” helium said.

“There were besides 3 oregon 4 radical injured adjacent my house, and nary 1 was capable to rescue them. Israeli forces changeable astatine whoever got adjacent them. Two were injured portion trying to rescue them.”

The cognition successful Jenin, wherever the Israeli service has carried retired aggregate raids and large-scale incursions successful caller years, comes days aft a ceasefire took effect successful the Gaza Strip and underscores the menace of much unit successful the West Bank.

Before the Israeli action, the Palestinian Authority’s information forces carried retired a weeks-long cognition to reassert power of the metropolis of Jenin arsenic good arsenic its exile camp.

Yesterday Israeli Security Forces launched a monolithic cognition successful #JeninCamp and city, utilizing precocious weaponry and warfare methods including airstrikes. At slightest 10 Palestinians person been killed and much than forty injured. The cognition is expected to past days. (1/3)

— Roland Friedrich (@GRFriedrich) January 22, 2025

Last week, an Israeli aerial raid connected the exile campy killed astatine slightest 3 Palestinians and wounded galore more.

The West Bank manager of UNRWA, the United Nations bureau for Palestinian refugees, said Jenin campy was “nearly uninhabitable”.

“Some 2,000 families displaced since mid-December. UNRWA has been incapable to supply afloat services to the campy successful this time,” Roland Friedrich said connected X.

UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese condemned what she called Israel’s “death machinery” and its attacks connected Jenin.

“If it is not forced to stop, Israel’s genocide of Palestinians volition not beryllium confined to Gaza. Mark my words,” she said connected X.

Watch: Israeli forces abduct respective young men and taxable them to maltreatment adjacent the Al-Awda roundabout successful Jenin. pic.twitter.com/t2nmz6MxF3

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 22, 2025

Raids elsewhere

Israeli forces besides stormed the municipality of Deir Sammit, westbound of Hebron, raiding homes of prisoners scheduled to beryllium released arsenic portion of the archetypal signifier of the ceasefire successful Gaza betwixt Israel and Hamas.

The subject besides stormed the Aida campy successful Bethlehem successful the south, launching a wide-scale apprehension campaign.

Wafa, the Palestinian quality agency, reported that Israeli forces tightened information for the 3rd consecutive time astatine astir entrances and exits of the governorates successful the West Bank.

Videos shared by Palestinians and verified by Al Jazeera showed dozens of vehicles stuck successful postulation astatine the Atara checkpoint adjacent Ramallah owed to heightened security.

Israeli raids successful the West Bank person escalated since Israel’s warfare connected Gaza began connected October 7, 2023. Nearly 900 radical person been killed determination and much than 9,700 arrested, according to section rights groups and wellness officials.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies