Israeli forces ‘block entrances to Jenin’ as deadly raid enters fourth day

In summation to Jenin governorate, Israeli forces person been stepping up their cognition crossed the occupied West Bank since January 21.

Israeli forces person blocked 4 main entrances to Jenin metropolis and its exile campy connected Friday arsenic the deadly raid into the metropolis entered a 4th day, officials said.

Mansour Saadi, lawman politician of Jenin, was quoted arsenic saying by the Wafa quality bureau that the Israeli service “blocked each 4 main entrances to the metropolis and its exile campy with world mounds, preventing introduction and exit”.

Palestinian sources said Israeli forces launched drones with loudspeakers successful the exile campy and imposed a curfew from Thursday evening until Friday morning.

Wafa quality bureau besides reported that Israeli forces acceptable occurrence to homes successful the campy and blocked civilian defence teams from reaching the country to enactment retired the flames.

This comes aft they issued forced evacuation threats to Jenin exile campy residents connected Thursday, arsenic thousands of Palestinians fled amid the deadly battle by Israeli forces.

In summation to Jenin governorate, Israeli forces person been stepping up their cognition crossed the occupied West Bank since January 21, conscionable days aft the ceasefire successful Gaza came into effect connected January 19.

Palestinian women beryllium crossed from the rubble of a location aft an Israeli raid successful Burqin colony adjacent Jenin successful the occupied West Bank [AFP]

As of Thursday, the decease toll successful Israeli raids had reached 12. Dozens person besides been wounded and detained.

The concern astatine Jenin authorities infirmary connected Friday was “dire”, Saadi said, with aesculapian unit struggling to supply attraction to patients amid powerfulness cuts and substance shortages caused by the ongoing Israeli operation.

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said galore Palestinians successful the occupied West Bank, including successful Jenin, fearfulness Israel volition bash “just arsenic it did successful Gaza”.

“In their thousands, Palestinians person been forced to permission their homes successful the Jenin exile camp,” said Salhut, who is reporting from Jordan due to the fact that Al Jazeera has been banned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) from reporting successful the occupied West Bank.

“People determination accidental Israeli forces privation to raze these Palestinian towns to the crushed conscionable arsenic they did successful Gaza.”

Sources told Al Jazeera that Palestinian fighters person besides been warring backmost against Israeli forces, targeting them with an explosive instrumentality portion they were travelling on Jenin’s Nazareth Street. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.

In immoderate of the ongoing raids, PA information forces were progressive successful going aft Palestinian fighters, including successful Tulkarem, Ramallah, Hebron and Qalqilya connected Friday.

Armed clashes person besides breached retired betwixt Palestinian fighters and PA forces successful the municipality of Yabad, westbound of Jenin.

PA information forces person reportedly severely beaten up a fig of Palestinian fighters aft arresting them.

Al Jazeera’s elder governmental expert Marwan Bishara said the Israeli authorities is shifting its absorption from Gaza to the occupied West Bank.

He said the operations successful Jenin and different parts of the occupied West Bank service arsenic a “deflection” from the Israeli government’s failures of October 7. Bishara added that the cognition besides creates an accidental for Israel to advance annexation policies.

Since the warfare connected Gaza began successful October 2023, Israeli forces person accrued the size and frequence of their raids successful the occupied West Bank, sidesplitting astir 900 Palestinians and wounding thousands.

Israel says eliminating equipped Palestinian fighters successful the occupied West Bank is portion of its overarching goals for the warfare connected Gaza. United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that Israel’s genocide would not beryllium confined to Gaza if the subject violative successful the West Bank does not end.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies