12/12/2023–|Last updated: 12/12/202309:22 AM (Mecca time)
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that 4 were killed in the bombing of an Israeli drone on the city of Jenin, which the occupation forces stormed on Tuesday morning, at a time when the occupation escalated its campaign against the Palestinians in the West Bank.
The reporter said that an Israeli drone targeted sites in the Old City and the Sibat neighborhood in the center of Jenin, which led to the martyrdom of the four Palestinians, coinciding with the storming of the city and its camp.
This morning, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin with a large number of vehicles, and deployed their snipers on the roofs of a number of buildings. Israeli marches also flew densely and at a low altitude over the sky of the Jenin camp and city.
Press coverage: Occupation army snipers point their rifles at the emergency center in Jenin Governmental Hospital and deploy around it. pic.twitter.com/C5yAoY54BP
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) December 12, 2023
Hospital siege
Military vehicles of the Israeli occupation forces imposed a cordon on the Jenin camp and the government hospital in the area.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that violent clashes were taking place near Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, and added that a homemade bomb exploded while occupation vehicles were crossing the vicinity of the Jenin camp.
He also reported hearing two strong explosions in the vicinity of the Jenin camp in the West Bank, and explained that the bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces began bulldozing streets in the vicinity of the camp, and sabotaging infrastructure.
Heavy gunfire was heard in Jenin as the occupation forces stormed the camp’s perimeter, and Palestinian residents opened fire on the occupation forces as they stormed the outskirts of the camp.
Press coverage: The occupation bulldozer begins to destroy infrastructure during the military operation in Jenin and its camp. pic.twitter.com/oqyfqWOdvX
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) December 12, 2023
Storms and arrests
In conjunction with the storming of Jenin, the occupation forces stormed several Palestinian areas and cities, including villages in the city of Hebron, Nablus, and Jenin. Confrontations also broke out between Palestinians and the occupation forces in several areas.
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Deir Al-Hatab, east of Nablus, and the Sataf Marhaba neighborhood in Al-Bireh, in addition to the town of Taffouh in the Hebron Governorate, south of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the city of Ramallah, surrounded a residential building in the Al-Tira neighborhood, and confiscated a vehicle before withdrawing from the place.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that more than 30 military vehicles raided the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, stormed the Beitunia Boys School and several homes, and arrested three Palestinians, including a freed prisoner and a military intelligence officer, before withdrawing from the town.
In the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinians, including the wife of a freed prisoner deported to Gaza. These forces had stormed the city of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh camp in the south of the West Bank.
The occupation forces deployed in a number of neighborhoods in the city and the camp, where they carried out raids on a number of homes, tampered with their contents, and carried out arrests.
The occupation forces arrested 30 Palestinians the night before last and Monday morning, including two women and former prisoners, in various parts of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
The number of detainees in the West Bank has risen to about 3,800 since last October 7, and the arrest campaign was accompanied by widespread harassment, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.
Total strike
Shops, schools and government offices in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem closed their doors yesterday, Monday, as part of a comprehensive strike to protest the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
The strike, called for locally, included activists from Islamic and national factions and youth organizations, as well as transportation, banks, and even bakeries, which were rarely included in strikes.
In addition to the strike, Palestinians demonstrated in downtown Ramallah in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and to demand an end to the war and the massacres of the Israeli occupation forces in the Strip.
Settler attacks
In this context, settlers stormed the town of Qasra, south of the city of Nablus, with the protection of the occupation army. Another group of settlers stormed a water spring in the village of Qaryut and performed Talmudic rituals there, while the occupation forces closed the Beit Furik checkpoint east of Nablus.
Sources confirmed to Manhattan Tribune that a group of settlers, protected by occupation soldiers, raided agricultural lands in the village of Awarta, southeast of the city of Nablus, stealing olives and destroying trees.
In the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, the occupation authorities informed the municipality of the confiscation and seizure of the “Deir Qalaa” archaeological area located east of the town. Its area is 18 dunums and includes archaeological sites and agricultural lands with perennial olive trees.
