Agencies
West Bank/Gaza
Arrests, violence and destruction have been reported as the Israeli military continued to mount raids across the occupied West Bank.
Israel continued its raid on the Jenin refugee camp for a seventh day on Tuesday while carrying out operations across various parts of the territory. Reports say one civilian was killed and dozens arrested, while Palestinian groups said they are fighting with Israeli forces.
Israel said it has killed 14 fighters in Jenin since it launched the raid last Wednesday and arrested 25 more. Palestinian health officials said at least 29 people have been killed, including five children.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reported that 22 people were arrested across the West Bank over the last 24 hours.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) posted a video on X, accusing the Israeli military of blocking its ambulances from reaching the injured in Jenin. The Jenin Battalion of al-Quds Brigades, part of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, said its fighters are confronting Israeli forces using guns and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The Associated Press news agency quoted Mohannad Hajj Hussein, a Jenin resident, as saying electricity and water supplies were cut off.
“We are ready to live by candlelight and we will feed our children from our bodies and teach them resistance and steadfastness in this land,” he said. “We will rebuild what the occupation destroyed and we will not kneel.” To the south in the Tulkarem refugee camp, Israeli forces conducted a raid for the second time this week.
Meanwhile, at least 16 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Over 161,000 children under 10 have been given a first vaccine dose against the polio virus in central Gaza since the launch of a UN-led mass vaccination campaign in the embattled Palestinian territory, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
Hamid Jafari, the WHO’s director of polio eradication for the Eastern Mediterranean region, said the vaccination programme in Gaza is “going quite well”.
