Israel army kills nine Palestinians, including elderly woman - Al Jazeera English

Israeli troops person killed 10 Palestinians successful 1 of the deadliest days successful the occupied West Bank since Israeli raids intensified astatine the commencement of past year.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 9 of the Palestinians killed were successful the Jenin exile camp, aft Israeli forces raided the area.

The different Palestinian, a 22-year-old man, was changeable by Israeli forces successful the municipality of al-Ram, northbound of Jerusalem.

In the Jenin raid, which Palestinians person described arsenic a “massacre”, at least 20 others were wounded with unrecorded ammunition. Four of them were successful captious condition.

The dormant included an aged woman, according to Palestinian officials. She was identified arsenic Magda Obaid by the Jenin infirmary authorities.

Israeli forces, who withdrew from Jenin aft the killings, said they were looking into reports of the woman’s death.

(Al Jazeera)

Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade – an equipped militia affiliated with the Palestinian governmental enactment Fatah – said the dormant included 1 of its fighters, Izz al-Din Salahat.

According to the wellness ministry, different person, Saeb Azriqi, 24, succumbed to his injuries successful a hospital.

It said the concern connected the crushed was precise difficult, with injured radical continuously reaching hospitals, arsenic it accused Israeli forces of obstructing ambulances and medics.

A damaged location pursuing the Israeli raid successful Jenin [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

“There is an penetration that is unprecedented … successful presumption of however ample it is and the fig of injuries,” Wissam Baker, caput of Jenin nationalist hospital, told Al Jazeera.

“The ambulance operator tried to get to 1 of the martyrs who was connected the floor, but the Israeli forces changeable straight astatine the ambulance and prevented them from approaching him,” Baker continued.

قوات الاحتلال تستهدف مركبة إسعاف بشكل مباشر في مخيم #جنين#الجزيرة pic.twitter.com/wxlk3btPH8

— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) January 26, 2023

[Translation: The [Israeli] concern forces straight targeted an ambulance successful the Jenin exile camp.]

Israeli forces besides fired teardrop state canisters towards the hospital, affecting the children’s division, Baker said. It caused suffocation injuries to children and others, helium said.

Israel’s service denied deliberately firing teardrop state astatine the hospital. “No 1 changeable teardrop state connected intent astatine a hospital,” an service spokesperson said. “But the enactment was not acold distant from the infirmary and it is imaginable immoderate teardrop gar entered done an unfastened window.”

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, has announced that the authorization would halt the information coordination with Israel successful the aftermath of the West Bank killing.

“As of present it volition not beryllium enforced,” helium told a property league successful Ramallah, adding that the determination was successful effect to repeated aggressions against Palestinians and usurpation of the planetary instrumentality by Israel.

“We salute those lasting steadfast defending our homeland,” the spokesperson said.

He besides called for an International Criminal Court Investigation into Thursday’s killings.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas declared a third-day mourning period, during which flags would beryllium flown astatine fractional mast, the authoritative Palestinian TV reported.

PM Shtayyeh seeks UN intervention

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh released a connection calling connected the United Nations and each planetary quality rights organisations to “intervene urgently to supply extortion for Palestinian radical and halt the bloodshed of children, younker and women”.

Saleh al-Arouri, a salient person of the Hamas question governing the blockaded Gaza Strip, said the “response of the absorption volition not beryllium delayed”.

Al Jazeera’s Youmna el-Sayed, reporting from Gaza, said Palestinian factions, including Hamas, announced a time of mourning and declared a authorities of alert.

“They called connected the planetary assemblage to clasp the ‘occupation criminals’ accountable for their crimes and yet called retired connected the radical successful Gaza to spell retired successful the streets and amusement their rage against the massacre committed successful Jenin,” el-Sayed said.

Israeli operation

Justifying the operation, the Israeli subject said peculiar forces had been sent into Jenin to detain Islamic Jihad fighters suspected of readying and carrying retired “multiple large panic attacks”.

Israeli forces launched a large-scale raid and besieged the campy successful the aboriginal hours with undercover forces, dozens of armoured vehicles and snipers. Armed clashes with Palestinian absorption fighters soon broke out.

The subject added that respective Palestinian fighters had been changeable aft they opened fire.

“During the operation, the information forces operated to situation the gathering successful which the suspects were located. Two equipped suspects were identified fleeing the country and were neutralised by the information forces,” Israeli officials said successful a statement.

No injuries were reported among the Israeli forces.

Palestinians hurl rocks arsenic Israeli forces motorboat a large-scale raid and besieged the campy [Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Jenin is among areas of the bluish West Bank wherever Israel has intensified raids implicit the past year, successful an effort to ace down connected increasing equipped Palestinian resistance.

Aleef Sabbagh, a governmental expert specialising successful Israeli affairs, said Thursday’s cognition successful Jenin “should beryllium understood arsenic a awesome – it is the archetypal changeable successful a coming, larger Israeli operation”.

“The deficiency of a effect – neither Arab nor planetary – implicit what Israel is doing, is encouraging it to proceed with its raids and killings,” Sabbagh told Al Jazeera.

“The targeting of ambulances and hospitals, preventing assistance to wounded people, the tract executions – adjacent the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh – determination has been nary accountability. If determination is nary real, beardown response, Israel volition proceed to bash what it wants without punishment.”

Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a seasoned analogous covering the occupied Palestinian territories for much than 25 years, was changeable dormant successful May past years portion she was covering a raid connected the Jenin exile camp.

No 1 has yet been held accountable for her killing.

Al Jazeera’s Senior Political Analyst Mawan Bishara said that “in the planetary arena, combating ‘terrorism’ has a magical dependable to it. It’s capable to warrant thing and everything adjacent erstwhile it’s wholly incorrect”.

While Israel justifies its actions connected information grounds, the Palestinians “see that arsenic a cynical ploy aimed astatine humiliating the Palestinian authority,” the expert said.

The raid took spot successful the alleged Area A, nether Palestinian administrative and constabulary power according to the presumption of the Oslo agreement. “These young radical of the exile campy are conscionable trying to support themselves, it’s not similar they’re going retired successful Israel and shooting astatine Israelis,” Bishara added.

The fig of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during raids successful the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem successful January has risen to astatine slightest 29 people, including 5 children. At slightest 15 of those killed were from Jenin.

More than 170 Palestinians were killed successful specified raids successful 2022, galore of them civilians.