On Monday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child and a former prisoner, and injured four young men during a military assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp.
According to Fawaz Hammad, the director of the Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, said that the child, Rayan Ibrahim Al-Sayed, 17, succumbed to serious injuries inflicted on him when soldiers shot him with live ammunition.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced the death of the young man, Mahmoud Mamoun Abu Al-Rab, 23, as a result of live gunshot wounds in the “Al-Sibat” neighborhood in Jenin city.
It is important to mention that Abu al-Rab was a former prisoner who was released 5 months ago after spending 4 years in occupation prisons.
The medical sources added that Israeli forces shot and injured at least four other young men with live rounds in several areas of the city and its camp during the attack.
Media sources said that on Monday morning, an undercover Israeli unit (Musta’ribeen) infiltrated the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp, and besieged a home, followed by military reinforcements, including a military bulldozer, storming Jenin city from its northern entrance, heading towards the refugee camp.
Military vehicles were stationed in the Cinema Roundabout area in the city center, on Nazareth Street, and at the entrances to the refugee camp, while sharpshooters were positioned on the rooftops of tall buildings.
Soldiers opened direct fire with live rounds towards at a group of journalists present near the Cinema Roundabout to document the aggression, amid the sounds of explosions, and the overhead flight of reconnaissance drones.
Armed Palestinian resistance fighters engaged in fierce hostilities with the attacking army who fired many live rounds at those who resisted the incursion, injuring several young men.
Sources added that occupation forces abducted a Palestinian paramedic while he was performing his duties inside the camp, while some ambulance crews evacuated a group of schoolchildren at an UNRWA school, after being trapped for more than 7 hours.
In the evening, Israeli forces withdrew from the “Al-Aloub” and “Al-Hawashin” neighborhoods in the Jenin camp, the city center, and the outskirts of the “Al-Sibat” neighborhood after an 8-hour-long incursion.
During the incursion the army razed part of a citizen’s home in the “Al-Aloub” neighborhood in the camp in addition to destroying infrastructure at the entrance to the Jenin refugee camp.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 754 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 165 children, and injured 6,250.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 198 in Jenin, 172 in Tulkarem, 79 in Nablus, 75 in Hebron, 59 in Ramallah, 59 in Tubas, 45 in Jerusalem, 29 in Qalqilia, 19 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 42,289 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 98,684 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remained buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
