Jerusalem, May 21 (EFE).- Seven Palestinians died Tuesday in clashes that broke out in a raid by Israel’s army in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank, one of the strongholds of the Palestinian militia movement.
Nine Palestinians were injured, two of them seriously, Palestine’s health ministry said.
Among the dead were a surgeon from the Jenun hospital, Aseed Jabareen, “targeted and killed by Israeli forces in the vicinity of the hospital,” teacher Allam Jadarat and a student, who were in a school, hospital director Wissam Bakr told Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
According to Wafa, Israeli forces broke into the Jenin camp, and entered its central streets with military armored vehicles, which unleashed armed clashes both in the countryside and in other neighborhoods of the city and in the nearby village of Burqin.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada, and at least 184 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in 2024, most of them suspected militants or attackers, but also civilians. This includes more than 30 minors, according to EFE’s count, after closing 2023 as the deadliest year in two decades with more than 520 deaths.
On the Israeli side, 10 people have died in eight Palestinian attacks in 2024, including four uniformed personnel and six civilians, three of them settlers.
The Israeli army intensified its already frequent incursions into the occupied West Bank after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and, since then, some 513 Palestinians have died in violent incidents with Israel, mainly with troops but also with settlers. EFE
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