JENIN: Two citizens were injured on Thursday by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the city of Jenin.
According to the Red Crescent, its crews dealt with two injuries, one of them with live bullets in the thigh, and the other with shrapnel in the head, and they were transferred to the hospital for treatment.
Sources in the association also said that its crews responded to a call from a number of families to evacuate children and women from their homes in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, where they evacuated 40 children and 46 women from homes in the neighborhood that the occupation soldiers had seized and turned into military barracks.
Israeli occupation forces continue to besiege the city and storm its eastern neighborhood, and have sent military reinforcements to the vicinity of its camp amidst violent clashes and the sound of explosions from time to time.
Jenin Governor Kamal Abu al-Rub said in a phone call with WAFA that the situation in Jenin is difficult, noting that the occupation forces are s
till besieging the city and its camp and closing the roads leading to it.
He added that the occupation forces continue to destroy citizens’ vehicles and property, bulldoze streets and infrastructure, raid homes and move from one house to another in the city and camp.
Al-Rub pointed out that the occupation forces forced a number of citizens to evacuate their homes and told them not to return to them for four days, and turned them into military barracks.
On the second day of the aggression on Jenin and its camp, the death toll rose to eight, while the number of injuries rose to seven, including a critical case, and a number of detainees, while the occupation forces continue to besiege Ibn Sina and Martyr Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospitals.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA