The Israeli army and settlers raided areas in the West Bank before dawn on Wednesday, while the Palestinian resistance vowed to retaliate for the killing of three of its members by Israeli forces inside a hospital in Jenin.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that a group of settlers infiltrated the village of Sinjil, north of the city of Ramallah, which has been subjected to numerous Israeli incursions.
Palestinian media sources indicated that settlers invaded the home of the martyr Jalal Shihuan’s family in the village of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah, and assaulted the residents while also targeting vehicles.
Settler attacks have increased in the past few weeks, coinciding with escalating Israeli operations in the West Bank since the launch of the “Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa” on October 7th of last year.
In the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that a young Palestinian man was injured late on Tuesday night by Israeli forces’ gunfire during their invasion of the town of Qiffin, north of Tulkarm.
Israeli forces raided the village, spread into several neighborhoods, attacked a group of youths, and raided houses. They also stormed the village’s old mosque, leading to clashes with Palestinians, resulting in one of them being shot in the back before being taken to the hospital for treatment.
Israeli forces also infiltrated neighborhoods in the city of Nablus before dawn, accompanied by a bulldozer and military vehicles.
The Israeli forces also stormed the military camp of Askar, east of Nablus, amid gunfire from resistance fighters towards Israeli vehicles and soldiers.
Local sources reported that the Israeli forces besieged the camp and deployed sniper teams in several locations overlooking it.
The forces also infiltrated the city of Qalqilya and the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, according to Palestinian sources.
Israeli forces also stormed the Qalandia camp north of occupied Jerusalem and closed its entrances while arresting a number of young men.
Meanwhile, the West Bank is witnessing a state of anger following the assassination of three Palestinian resistance fighters by an Israeli force inside the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, alleging they were members of an armed cell affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) planning attacks.
In the first operation of its kind in nearly 8 years, a force of 10 individuals dressed in civilian attire, including those posing as doctors and civilians, infiltrated the hospital and headed to the third floor where they executed the three young men, one of whom was a wounded patient receiving treatment at the hospital. Among the martyrs are Mohammad Walid Jalamneh, one of the prominent field commanders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – in the Jenin governorate, and Basel Ayman Ghazawi, one of the leaders and founders of the Jenin Battalion in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement. Al-Quds Brigades, and among the field commanders in the Jenin governorate.
The al-Qassam Brigades mourned the three resistance fighters, stating that “blood will be met with blood, and that these sacrifices will not go in vain.”
Likewise, the Al-Quds Brigades stated that they will continue the fight to regain the rights of the Palestinian people and added that their weapons will be legitimate in all arenas.
Hamas denounced the assassination operation, describing it as a complete war crime, while the Islamic Jihad Movement said that the operation is a new violation of humanitarian norms and international laws, indicating that it rises to the level of a war crime.
The administration of the Ibn Sina Hospital considered this invasion as a dangerous precedent and a new chapter in the escalating targeting of medical institutions and patients within them.
This raises the number of martyrs in the West Bank since October 7th to 381 due to the incursions and settler attacks.
