Ramallah: Two Palestinians, including a 57-year-old schoolteacher, were killed by Israeli troops on Thursday during a dawn raid in the hotspot city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to officials and medical personnel.
The world's nations have been urged to step in and try to stop the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. He also blamed Israel solely for the ongoing commission of these crimes. Adham Jabarin, 28, and teacher Jawad Bawakna, a father of six, were both shot in the Jenin refugee camp.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 17 Palestinian fatalities, including four children. Jenin has been the scene of nine of the fatalities. During the raid, fifteen people were taken into custody. The Israeli army stormed the camp in force and placed snipers on the roofs of several homes and structures that overlooked it.
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A residential building near the camp's entrance was invaded by special Israeli units, who then stormed several apartments, detained residents, and took their cellphones. The teacher was being shot at by Israeli forces as he attempted to give Jabarin first aid, according to Ata Abu Rumaila, the Fatah secretary in Jenin.
The injured were transported in a private vehicle because ambulance crews were unable to access the camp to treat them and take them to the hospital.
The Israeli army and the young men in the camp then engaged in violent clashes, during which three people were shot with live ammunition. The army was also detaining civilians. The Fatah movement and the local resistance have proclaimed a day of mourning for the two victims.
According to Wissam Bakr, director of the Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin, the hospital was being shot at by the Israeli army, endangering the lives of both patients and medical staff.
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The occupation forces' targeting of the hospital was denounced by Shtayyeh, who also urged the World Health Organization and other international organisations to denounce the crimes.
The deputy leader of the Fatah movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, claimed that the occupation forces' actions demonstrated that the status quo was no longer acceptable.
The leadership, he claimed, was debating a number of scenarios, but he insisted that resistance to the occupation was the most likely one. The execution of residents of the Jenin camp, according to Maj. Gen. Akram Rajoub, the governor of Jenin, demonstrated the Israeli government's preference for killing.
According to him, Jenin is being targeted more frequently than any other West Bank city, and the intensity, violence, and number of incursions are rising at an unprecedented rate.
Every time the city, its camp, and its villages are stormed, more military personnel and vehicles are involved. He continued by saying that Jenin's current level of violence has a negative impact on all facets of the city's security, economy, and social life. "I am currently walking the streets of Jenin, and all the shops are shut," he continued.
Even the Palestinian residents of nearby Israeli cities refrain from visiting the city to shop in such a setting. They had grown accustomed to visiting the city and boosting its economy by shopping. "Jenin is like a ghost city after these horrifying killings."
President Mahmoud Abbas intends to ask US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to persuade the Israelis to stop their crimes when the two meet in Ramallah, according to PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General Hussein Al-Sheikh. Maher Younis, 65, was released from an Israeli prison on Thursday after 40 years of imprisonment.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club reported that Younis was released from Beersheba Prison in southern Israel shortly after dawn. Younis received a sentence on January 18, 1983 as a result of his opposition to Israel and his participation in the Fatah movement. I was hoping to witness the liberation of my country when I was released from captivity after 40 years, he said. I want every prisoner to be released.
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Younis' family was unable to celebrate his release due to Israeli police interference. Nevertheless, despite police threats, a sizable crowd of residents from the village of Ara and the Arab neighbourhood flocked to the family's home to celebrate his freedom.