After more than two weeks of deadly Israeli siege and raids in the northern region of the occupied West Bank, including the Jenin refugee camp, thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and dozens of homes have been destroyed.
“The Israeli army claims to have launched a “counterterrorism” operation to combat armed Palestinian fighters,” according to the statement. But if you look at what is going on, you have 26, 000 Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced, forced to leave their homes”, said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan.
“The Israeli army has detonated homes in Jenin, Tulkarem and now Nablus. The army claims that some of these homes were used to support military installations, but they provided no specific proof to back up those claims.
” The Israeli army is levelling residential blocks, mirroring essentially what they have been doing in Gaza, detonating homes and killing many Palestinians, “Salhut said.
More than 47, 000 people have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military, including at least 25 000 children and women, despite earlier this week’s update to the death toll to account for the 14, 222 people who are still unaccounted for and are thought to be dead.
Israeli forces have killed more than 70 people, including 10 children, in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says. At least 38 people have been killed in Jenin alone, according to the ministry’s tally released on Monday.
Israel has carried out extensive operations across the West Bank since the January 19 announcement of the Gaza ceasefire, according to the statement. The Palestinians, according to the Al Jazeera correspondent, claim that civilians are at risk from Israeli army incursions.
Palestinians can no longer move around because the Army has set up so many additional checkpoints throughout the territory. They are also unable to go to school, work, or visit a hospital.
Doctors Without Borders, whose name is MSF, claimed in a new report that the occupied West Bank has been in “a state of perpetual emergency” since October 2023.
” A dramatic escalation in violence, marked by prolonged Israeli military incursions and stricter movement restrictions … have severely hindered access to essential services, particularly healthcare, exacerbating already dire living conditions for many Palestinians, “it said.
The report looked at “the attacks and the obstructions of healthcare in a context of, what the ICJ (International Criminal Court) has described as segregation and apartheid. It revealed “a pattern of systematic interference by Israeli forces and settlers in the delivery of emergency care.”
Source: Aljazeera
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