Photos: Images of destruction left behind by Israel in Jenin

Jenin refugee camp, occupied West Financial institution – On the morning of January 26, Israel launched what residents stated was the most important navy raid on the Jenin refugee camp within the northern occupied West Financial institution since 2002.

The Israeli military killed 9 Palestinians, together with two youngsters and a 61-year-old lady, in a matter of a number of hours, in what Palestinians described as a “bloodbath”.

Israeli undercover forces, later backed by dozens of armored automobiles and tractors, raided the camp in personal automobiles simply earlier than 7am native time (05:00 GMT) as residents have been getting ready to go to work and college.

They besieged a house within the Jarret al-Dahab neighbourhood of the camp, the place a number of Palestinian resistance fighters have been taking shelter, and focused it with surface-to-air missiles and explosives, which additionally set the home on fireplace. Three recognized fighters have been killed within the residence, whereas one other was injured and arrested by the military.

The fighters have been recognized as brothers 28-year-old Mohammad and 25-year-old Nour-al Din Ghneim from the city of Burqin on the outskirts of Jenin metropolis, and 30-year-old Mohammad Soboh from the camp. The three have been discovered killed inside the house after the military withdrew from the camp.

Armed clashes then broke out with Palestinian fighters within the camp, throughout which the Israeli military, together with snipers positioned on rooftops, fired reside ammunition indiscriminately on properties, home windows and automobiles, residents stated, and in some instances utilizing missiles, abandoning a path of blood and destruction.

The Israeli navy justified the operation saying the raid was deliberate to detain Islamic Jihad fighters.

One lady – 61-year-old Majida Obaid – was shot lifeless whereas sitting in entrance of her bed room window watching the occasions from above. One other, 16-year-old Wasim Abu Jaes, was run over by an Israeli navy automobile and killed.

Ambulance automobiles have been prevented for a protracted time frame from offering assist to the wounded and have been instantly shot at. Israeli forces additionally fired tear gasoline on the Jenin public hospital, which seeped into the kids’s division, inflicting accidents of suffocation amongst children.

The Israeli military denied intentionally focusing on the hospital. “Nobody shot tear gasoline on goal at a hospital,” a military spokesperson stated. “However the exercise was not distant from the hospital and it’s attainable some tear gar entered by way of an open window.”