In the fourth day of the deadly attack, Israeli forces blocked the entrances of Genin. Israel-Felistine Conflict News
Officials said the Israeli forces blocked the four main entrances of the city of Genin and its refugee camp on Friday as deadly raids in the city have entered the fourth day.
The Wafa news agency quoted Genin Deputy Governor Mansoor Saadi as saying that the Israeli army “the city and its refugee camp have been locked with a pile of mud, which has banned entry and exit. “.
Palestinian sources said that Israeli forces launched drones with loudspeakers at the refugee camp and imposed curfew from Thursday evening to Friday morning.
The Wafa news agency also said that the Israeli forces set the houses on fire in the camp and stopped the civil security teams from reaching the area to extinguish the fire.
This came when he issued a threat of forced withdrawal to the residents of the Genin refugee camp on Thursday, as thousands of Palestinians escaped amidst the deadly attack of Israeli forces.
Just a few days after the ceasefire came into force in Gaza on 19 January, in addition to the Genin Governor, the Israeli army has been increasing its campaign in the West Bank occupied from January 21.
By Thursday, the death toll in the Israeli raid had reached 12. Dozens of people have also been injured and have been taken into custody.
Saadi said, the situation in Genin Government Hospital on Friday was “serious”, where medical staff struggled to take care of patients amidst power cuts and fuel deficiency due to Israeli operation.
Al Jazira’s Hamda Salahut said that many Palestinians in the West Bank occupied including Genin fear that Israel “as he did in Gaza”.
“Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes at the Genin refugee camp,” said Salhut, who is reporting from Jordan as Reporting Al Jazira to West Bank occupied by Palestinian Authority (PA) Has been banned from
“The people there say that the Israeli army wants to destroy these Palestinian towns as they did in Gaza.”
Sources told Al Jazeera that Palestinian fighters are also retaliating against Israeli forces, while traveling on Jenin’s Nazreth Street, they targeted him with an explosive equipment. There was no immediate report of casualties.
In some ongoing raids, the PA security forces were involved in chasing the Palestinian fighters, including Tullam, Ramlalah, Hebron and Kalkalya on Friday.
There have also been armed clashes between Palestinian fighters and PA forces in the city of Jenin.
PA security forces have allegedly beaten up severely after arresting several Palestinian fighters.
Later on Friday, the United Nations expressed serious concern over the use of the Israeli army at West Bank, including “developed to fight war”.
“We are extremely concerned with the use of illegal deadly force in Genin in the West Bank occupied West Bank,” said Thiemin Al-Khetan, spokesperson of the United Nations Human Rights Office.
“In recent times, the deadly Israeli operations create serious concerns about unnecessary or ratioless use of force, including methods and means developed to fight war in violations applied to international human rights laws, law enforcement functions and standards.”
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said that the Israeli government is focusing its attention from the Gaza and focusing on the occupied West Bank.
He said that the operation in Genin and other parts of the West Bank occupied as “deflection” from the Israeli government’s failures of October 7. Bishara said that the operation also creates an opportunity for Israel to carry forward the policies of occupation.
Since the war on Gaza started in October 2023, Israeli forces have increased the size and frequency of their raids at the West Bank occupied, with around 900 Palestinians killed and thousands were injured.
Israel says that ending armed Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank is part of its widespread goals of war on Gaza. The United Nations Special Representative Franceska Albanies has warned that if the military attack in the West Bank does not end, the massacre of Israel will not be limited to Gaza.
