the plight of Jeninian residents targeted by an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank

Ambulances are speeding by. The bullets whistle, in the heart of the city. Israeli drones fly over Jenin, a Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank, where five Palestinians have been killed and nearly a hundred others injured Monday, June 19, during a military raid, one of the operations of the Israeli army’s most violent scale in recent years.

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Initially, the Israeli occupation forces had launched a raid, to apprehend two “wanted suspects”. They finally fell into an ambush, tense by Palestinian armed groups. After almost twelve hours of uninterrupted fighting in Jenin, with indeterminate fire on a terrain transformed into a battlefield, chaos reigns. The Palestinian Red Crescent, member of the international movement of the Red Cross, tries to help the injured. Bullets ricochet off the wall of the hospital in Jenin.

A helicopter bombardment, “this had not happened for 20 years”

“These occupying forces are criminals, asks a Palestinian man. I am both sad and sorry to see all these victims. Every day we say goodbye to our young people. Today alone, there are five deaths. May God appease their families, and avenge them for this Israeli injustice.”

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As the Israeli army retreats, the time has come for this Palestinian fighter to bury his brothers in arms: “Every time the Israeli army enters here, they will suffer casualties. Of course, they will never recognize it. But our determination is unwavering. Today they called in their Apache helicopters as reinforcements. not happened for 20 years”.

A version confirmed by the Israeli army: its air force carried out a bombardment, near Jenin to disencircle its soldiers, caught in an ambush.