The Palestinian news agency said on Friday that the Israeli army had requested the evacuation of the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, which it stormed today.
Palestinian television broadcast a very short video clip showing paramedics surrendering at the hospital entrance, without them appearing in the video. The broadcaster said law enforcement took a number of paramedics from the hospital to the courtyard before arresting a group of them. It also reported that two people were killed and others injured in an Israeli drone strike in the Al-Hawashin neighborhood of Jenin Camp.
The Palestinian movement Hamas announced today that its armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was engaged in clashes with Israeli forces who had stormed the Jenin camp. The Palestinian News Agency later said that Israeli forces arrested a number of Palestinian youths at a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood of Jenin.
In the same context, the agency also said that Israeli forces closed all entrances to the city and isolated it from towns and villages in the governorate. Large Israeli army forces, accompanied by special units and military bulldozers, were reported to have stormed Jenin from several directions, resulting in clashes breaking out with young men.
An earlier assault on Jenin by Israeli forces earlier this week resulted in the killing of 14 Palestinians, in another bloody day in the West Bank. Local sources confirmed that the occupation forces have besieged the hospital from all sides for several hours, are searching ambulances in its vicinity and have called through loudspeakers for the hospital to be evacuated. He claimed that the occupation forces forced a number of paramedics to evacuate the hospital with their hands raised, searched them in the hospital courtyard and arrested some of them.
The occupation forces stormed the city and the Jenin camp from different directions, closed all entrances, isolated it from the external surroundings, demolished several streets, arrested 7 citizens, demolished infrastructure in several locations of the city and the camp and blew up vehicles. . Numerous citizens were also injured by drone attacks and projectiles from the occupation forces, following which they were transferred to hospitals in the city.