For nearly ten consecutive months, the Israeli occupation army has waged an unrelenting offensive against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank’s transforming a once-crowded urban center into a zone of devastation and forced displacement.
The offensive, in its 295th day Tuesday, has escalated into a full-scale siege, with all four main entrances to the city sealed off by earth mounds and military roadblocks.
Drones hover overhead, broadcasting evacuation orders through loudspeakers, while armored vehicles patrol the streets, enforcing curfews and obstructing movement.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli forces stormed Nablus Street in Jenin city, obstructing traffic, interrogating drivers, and inspecting identity documents.
Simultaneously, troops invaded a home in the town of al-Yamun, west of Jenin, continuing a pattern of daily incursions and home invasions across the governorate.
The humanitarian toll is staggering. Nearly 90 percent of Jenin refugee camp’s population—over 22,000 people—has been displaced.
More than 600 homes have been completely demolished, amounting to the destruction of roughly one-third of the camp’s housing.
Bulldozers have carved through the refugee camp’s narrow alleys, tearing up roads and infrastructure, including those leading to Jenin Government Hospital.
The Jenin governmental hospital has been encircled, its access routes blocked, and its staff operating under siege conditions.
Medical teams report power outages, fuel shortages, and direct targeting of ambulances and rescue workers. In several incidents, civilians and medics attempting to reach the wounded were fired upon.
The Israeli military has turned homes into makeshift outposts, evicting families and using rooftops for sniper positions.
Daily invasions extend beyond the refugee camp into surrounding towns such as al-Yamun, Ya’bad, and Kafr Ra’i, where homes are stormed and residents subjected to interrogation and abduction.
In the past few weeks alone, dozens have been abducted, and at least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin and neighboring areas. The total death toll since the beginning of the offensive stands at 56, with over 200 injured.
Roads are not merely blocked—they are erased. Homes are not just searched—they are leveled. The refugee camp, once a symbol of resilience, now lies in ruins, its residents scattered, its streets unrecognizable.
This onslaught is not an isolated episode but part of a broader escalation across the occupied West Bank. Simultaneous invasions have struck Nablus, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Hebron, and Qalqilia.
On Tuesday evening, a Palestinian child died of injuries he sustained four weeks ago when Israeli forces attacked olive pickers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Media sources reported that the child, Aysam Jihad Ma’alla, 13, died on Tuesday evening, after spending a number of weeks in a coma.
Human rights groups warn that what is unfolding in Jenin is not merely a military offensive. It is a systematic erasure of a place and its people, carried out under the pretext of security but executed with a disregard for international law and human life.
The silence of the international community, in the face of such sustained brutality, deepens the wound. Jenin is not just under siege—it is being erased.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and colonizers have killed 236 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 46 children and 7 women.
Occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers have killed 80 Palestinians in Jenin, 42 in Nablus, 30 in Tubas, 20 in Hebron, 19 in Ramallah, 17 in Tulkarem, 9 in Bethlehem, 9 in Jerusalem, 6 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho, in 2025.
