Not less than 13 Palestinians have been injured after Israeli forces raided the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp to arrest 10 individuals.
Not less than 13 Palestinians have been injured, two of them severely, after Israeli forces fired bullets, missile and tear fuel throughout a raid of the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho metropolis within the occupied West Financial institution, based on the Palestinian well being ministry.
The Israeli forces fired an anti-tank guided missile throughout the raid to arrest Palestinians, Israeli radio confirmed.
The Palestinian Crimson Crescent Society accused Israel of blocking entry to ambulances. They had been ultimately allowed to deal with the wounded after the operation ended.
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from the West Financial institution metropolis of Ramallah, stated the five-hour raid was “a continuation” of the incident from final Saturday in Jenin, close to Jericho.
“Jericho, a metropolis of 37,000 individuals, has been primarily closed off by the Israeli army for every week as Israeli forces hunted for suspects in a drive-by taking pictures close to an unlawful Israeli settlement not removed from Jericho.
“The Israeli forces have arrested 10 individuals which amongst them, we perceive, had been the suspects needed for that taking pictures,” Smith stated.
Saturday’s raid comes every week after Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp, the most important army raid on the camp within the northern occupied West Financial institution since 2002.
“This comes actually as a part of a really violent starting of the 12 months within the occupied West Financial institution – 36 Palestinians have been killed up to now,” Al Jazeera’s Smith stated.
“And all of this on the again of this new far-right Israeli authorities – which has a cupboard minister in it, elected by settlers decided to advance the settlement venture within the occupied West Financial institution and make life even more durable for Palestinians than it already is.”
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Killings proceed
Aqbat Jabr, one in every of 19 Palestinian refugee camps within the occupied West Financial institution, is residence to extra than 8,000 individuals. The United Nations Refugee Company says individuals there have insufficient shelter and sewage amenities.
The current surge in killings by Israeli forces comes as a part of intensified nightly raids, significantly within the northern occupied cities of Jenin and Nablus, below the banner of crushing restricted Palestinian armed resistance in opposition to Israeli occupation.
Civilians confronting Israeli forces throughout raids and harmless bystanders have been killed, in addition to Palestinian fighters in focused assassinations and through armed clashes.
Final week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced plans to arm Israelis with weapons amid escalating violence within the occupied Palestinian territory. The measures got here within the wake of the killing of seven Israelis by a Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem.
On Friday, Israeli forces shot useless an unarmed Palestinian man, Abdullah Sami Qalalweh, 26, within the West Financial institution, the Palestinian well being ministry stated.
The toll of 36 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces up to now this 12 months consists of eight kids and an aged girl, Palestinian information company WAFA reported.
Individually on Friday, the United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk referred to as on Israel “to make sure that all operations of its safety forces within the occupied West Financial institution together with East Jerusalem, are carried out with full respect for worldwide human rights regulation”.
He careworn adherence to “the principles regulating the usage of power in regulation enforcement operations”, based on a press release from his workplace.