Clashes broke out between resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday in Jenin in the northern West Bank, while two Palestinian youths were killed after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in the city a few days ago.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that Israeli forces stormed the city of Jenin from the Jalameh checkpoint, north of the city.
The correspondent added that the occupation soldiers surrounded a house, which led to the outbreak of armed clashes with resistance fighters, amid the sound of sirens in the city.
For its part, Al-Aqsa TV quoted local sources as saying that the clashes took place on Nablus Street and Al-Marah neighborhood in Jenin, noting that two young men were injured by Israeli soldiers’ bullets.
The sources indicated that the occupation forces also stormed areas in the Jenin camp in addition to the town of Qabatiya.
Clashes with the occupation forces on Nablus Street in Jenin pic.twitter.com/wiBnWvp8If
– AlQastal News (@AlQastalps) August 12, 2024
Palestinian sources reported that resistance fighters targeted the forces invading Jenin with an explosive device.
Also in the northern West Bank, resistance fighters opened fire on the occupation forces at the Jarizim checkpoint, south of Nablus, according to Palestinian sources.
In the eastern West Bank, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed Aqabat Jaber camp in Jericho at dawn today.
Local sources said that resistance fighters targeted the Al-Hamra military checkpoint north of Jericho with machine guns and achieved direct hits among the Israeli forces.
In the central West Bank, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.
Press coverage | Last Tuesday, the young man, Kifah Dabaia, from Jenin camp, was arrested and injured. pic.twitter.com/OAaPFCFlZH
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Two martyrs
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening, Sunday, the death of the young man, Sobhi Al-Baz (36 years old), as a result of his injury a few days ago by the occupation forces’ bullets in Jenin.
The official Palestinian news agency said that Al-Baz died in Jenin Governmental Hospital from his wounds caused by the occupation forces’ bullets last week.
The agency indicated that 6 young men were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a car in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city last Tuesday.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Club and the Prisoners Affairs Authority announced in a joint statement yesterday evening, Sunday, the martyrdom of the wounded prisoner, Kifah Dabaya, from Jenin camp, in the Israeli Rambam Hospital.
The two institutions said that Dabaya (34 years old) died of his wounds from the bullets of the Israeli occupation army before his arrest last Tuesday in the town of Kafr Qud, along with two other young men who were injured and arrested with him, namely Jihad Hussein and Ahmed Farahti, during the recent Israeli aggression on Jenin and its camp.
The Prisoners Club and the Prisoners Affairs Authority held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of the prisoner Dabaya.
Since Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, the occupation forces have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 620 Palestinians and the injury of more than 5,000 others, according to official Palestinian statistics.