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The Israeli occupation army withdrew from the city of Jenin on Monday evening after an eight-hour military operation during which two young Palestinians were killed and four were wounded, Anadolu has reported.
According to the former mayor of Jenin, Nidal Al-Obeidi, the Israeli occupation forces besieged a house in the Jenin refugee camp to arrest some young men, but the house was empty. That and other properties, he said, were “razed to the ground”, but no arrests were reported.
Earlier on Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that “two Palestinian martyrs were shot by the occupation forces in Jenin.” Videos of the raid were circulated on social media showing armoured bulldozers and heavy demolition vehicles going into the refugee camp. The footage also showed injured individuals in the alleyways.
“Our crews treated four people for the wounds they received during the Israeli army’s storming of Jenin,” said the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Israel has expanded its oppression of the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, killing 754 people and wounding around 6,250 others. This has gone ahead in what has been described as “Israel’s other genocidal war” against the Palestinians, even as it carries out the ongoing US-backed genocide of the residents of the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 43,000 Palestinians, and wounded 99,000. An estimated 11,000 are missing, presumed dead, under the rubble of their homes and other civilian infrastructure destroyed by the Israeli apartheid state.
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