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11 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, according to what the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, 10 of whom were in the Jenin camp, where an incursion, the largest in nearly 20 years, was carried out, which included aerial bombardment by drones.

And the ministry announced that 100 wounded, including 20 seriously injured, at a time when the Israeli occupation forces sent more military reinforcements to the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, just before midnight Monday to Tuesday, amid the outbreak of confrontations.

The Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, stated that the occupation forces mobilized military reinforcements with dozens of military vehicles for the city of Jenin and its camp, via Jenin-Nazareth and Jenin-Haifa streets.

She added that the confrontations are still continuing in Jenin and its camp between young men and the occupation forces, amid intense flight of the occupation helicopters and monitoring planes, which did not leave the sky of the governorate.

The Israeli occupation army is launching the massive operation that was announced early Monday, two weeks after another major operation targeting the Jenin camp, which included helicopter strikes for the first time in years.

The identities of eight martyrs in Jenin camp showed that three of them were under the age of 17, and the rest were between 18 and 23, including a martyr in Al-Bireh who was injured during a demonstration in solidarity with Jenin.

Hundreds of Palestinians from the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank were evacuated to safe places, due to the continued bombing of the camp by Israeli planes.

The Palestine Red Crescent evacuated about 500 Palestinian families from the Jenin camp, in an ongoing operation that came after the Israeli occupation forces threatened to bomb the entire camp, according to a Palestinian ambulance and emergency official.



Ahmed Jibril, a worker in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, told Al-Mamlaka from inside Jenin camp, while he was carrying out the evacuation process, that the Society's staff helped evacuate about 500 Palestinian families from inside the camp in an operation that lasted about two hours, under the threat of the Israeli occupation army to bomb the camp.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that Israeli forces were striking "with great force" in the Jenin area.

The city of Jenin and the refugee camp adjacent to it became a scene of confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which in the past months have intensified their operations in the northern occupied West Bank, with the increase in armed operations targeting Israelis, and with it attacks by settlers on Palestinians, their property, and their crops.

And the Palestinian Ministry of Health stated in a statement that "the death toll from Jenin rose to 9, in addition to a martyr in Al-Bireh. This raises the death toll today to 9, in addition to 100 wounded, including 20 in serious condition," and a martyr in Al-Bireh.

The director of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Jenin, Mahmoud al-Saadi, told AFP that the Israeli attack was carried out from the air and from the ground. "Several homes and locations were bombed... Smoke is rising from everywhere," he added.

Jenin camp is witnessing armed clashes, while ambulances rush to transport the wounded to hospitals, according to an AFP photographer.

From inside the camp, Badr al-Ghoul told AFP, "I saw bulldozers entering and destroying houses with their residents inside."

He pointed to the displacement of families from the camp with whatever clothes and luggage they could collect.

"surprised them"

Since early Monday, the Israeli occupation army began bombing targets in Jenin camp. "We are taking action" against specific people, Army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht told reporters.

Hecht confirmed that the army "is working against specific targets," considering that "the air strikes in the heart of the camp surprised them."

"We are focusing on the infrastructure inside the camp. (The operation) could last hours, it could be days. Once we achieve what we need to achieve, we will get out of there," the military spokesman said.

He added that the operation "includes the elite of all Israeli forces, and arrests are being made, and the number is still unknown."

The occupation army stated earlier that its forces bombed a "joint operations center" that constitutes the command center of the "Jenin Brigade", which young men of different affiliations announced its formation in 2021 with the aim of "resisting the occupation."

He said that the operation targeted a "surveillance and reconnaissance" site, as well as a weapons storage facility and a hideout.

For his part, Israeli Occupation Army Minister Yoav Gallant said, "We are taking a proactive and decisive approach. Whoever harms Israeli citizens will pay a heavy price... We are closely monitoring the actions of our enemies, and we are ready for every scenario," according to Gallant's description.


An army statement stated that "a soldier was slightly wounded by shrapnel from an Israeli army grenade during the Jenin operation, and was taken to hospital."

The Al-Qassam Brigades affiliated with Hamas in the Jenin camp said in a statement, "Our mujahideen from all the Palestinian factions are facing the occupation army in the alleys of Jenin camp, inflicting direct casualties on them."

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades affiliated with the Islamic Jihad confirmed, "In response to the ongoing aggression, and within the battle of Bass Jenin, our Mujahideen carried out a number of qualitative strikes in the ranks of the occupation forces and mechanisms since the morning."

The Lions' Den group, from nearby Nablus, announced that a group of its fighters were taking part in the fighting inside the Jenin camp.

"disastrous"

Mahmoud Hawashin, a member of Fatah's region in Jenin, described the conditions in the Jenin camp as "catastrophic." "This is an unequal battle between massive military forces and a defenseless people who have nothing but their will," he told AFP as he inspected the wounded at Ibn Sina Hospital.

Hawashin, who is from the Jenin camp, added, "The army surprised the residents of Jenin with its drones, and targeted the infrastructure of water, electricity and cars. Most of those who were martyred were civilians, not from the resistance." "We are not lovers of blood, we are lovers of freedom," he said.

On June 19, seven people were killed in an operation in Jenin that was bombed by the Israeli occupation army and its helicopters for the first time since the second Palestinian Intifada (2000-2005).

The Islamic Jihad movement said in a statement, "All options are open to strike the enemy in response to its aggression in Jenin." "Jenin will not surrender, and our fighters are determined to confront and fight, regardless of the sacrifices," she added.

And the Palestinian Authority announced in a statement after an emergency meeting chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas, "the cessation of all contacts and meetings with the Israeli side."

The statement added that the outcomes of the Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh meetings "are no longer useful and no longer exist," in light of the Israeli lack of commitment to them.

"What the occupation government is doing in Jenin and its camp is a new war crime against our defenseless people," said Palestinian Presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called for "urgent international action to stop the aggression immediately," calling on the International Criminal Court to "break its silence and start holding the Israeli war criminals accountable."



"providing protection"

The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation expressed its "strong condemnation of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the city of Jenin and its camp against unarmed civilians, medical personnel and health centers, and the destruction of infrastructure and the demolition of homes and mosques."

It called on the UN Security Council to assume responsibility, implement its relevant resolutions, put an end to this continuous Israeli terrorism, and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Safadi, warned of the catastrophic consequences of the Israeli aggression on Jenin, and stressed the need for the international community to act immediately and effectively to stop the aggression and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

Al-Safadi condemned the Israeli aggression on Jenin as a dangerous escalation that will trigger wide cycles of violence.

Al-Safadi stressed that the repeated Israeli attacks on Palestinian cities will only contribute to increasing tension, which is also fueled by illegal Israeli measures that undermine the two-state solution and kill hope in the chances of achieving a just and comprehensive peace.

A spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that the Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the current developments in the West Bank city of Jenin.

UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq added in a statement that Guterres "emphasizes that all military operations must be conducted in full respect of international humanitarian law."

The United Arab Emirates also "strongly condemned the attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces," and its foreign ministry stressed in a statement the "need to immediately stop the repeated and escalating campaigns against the Palestinian people."

For its part, the League of Arab States announced the holding of an emergency meeting on Tuesday.

Approximately 2.9 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, excluding occupied East Jerusalem, in addition to more than half a million Jewish settlers in settlements that international law considers illegal.