ALBAWABA - The Israeli Army announced the launching of a large-scale military operation in the West Bank refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas killing 11 people and injuring more than a dozen.
The Israeli Army announced the "major operation" describing it as the largest military operation in the West Bank since the Intifada (Palestinian uprising) in 2002. Hundreds of troops were deployed to the camps with the support of drones, bulldozers, and live bullets.
Online footage showed Israeli troops and bulldozers storming the refugee camp of Jenin followed by additional military reinforcements, with news that the army has blocked the ins and outs of the camp.
The killings have been executed via drone strikes across West Bank camps, with local reports saying that they all operate under the Palestinian resistance. Three were killed in Jenin whereas four were killed in Tubas.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported facing difficulties in reaching the casualties and the injured due to the blockade by Israeli forces, which have been preventing ambulances from accessing the area and obstructing rescue operations.
Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub stated that the Israeli troops are threatening to storm the Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in the city.
"The occupation forces are imposing a siege on medical institutions in the city, as they have blocked roads to Ibn Sina Hospital with earth mounds, and besieged the Martyr Khalil Suleiman Hospital and the headquarters of the Red Crescent," Abu al-Rub stated.
The city remains under siege with Israeli forces blocking the movement of Palestinians into and out of it. This comes as part of a wide-scale military offensive launched by the Israeli occupation authorities in several areas of the occupied West Bank, WAFA reported.
