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Seven Palestinians were so far killed and dozens injured, many of them critically, in the ongoing large-scale Israeli air and land assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin, according to medical and local sources.
The Ministry of Health and Jenin hospitals said in their latest update on the Palestinian casualties of the Israeli assault that seven Palestinians were killed, three of them killed in airstrikes, while the number is expected to rise in light of the many who were critically wounded in the assault.
Four of those killed were identified as Samih Firas Abu al-Wafa, Husam Mohammad Abu Deibeh, and Aws al-Hanoun, all three were shot in the chest, and Nour Eddin Husam Marshoud, was shot in the head.
The army started after midnight a major assault on Jenin, starting with airstrikes before dozens of military vehicles and several hundred soldiers raided the city, concentrating on its refugee camp.
The army bulldozers destroyed several streets in the camp to prevent the movement of cars and ambulances, said local sources.
Among the martyrs identified is the young man Samih Firas Abu Al-Wafa (21 years old).
The Israeli occupation aircraft targeted several locations inside the Jenin camp and its outskirts with missiles, resulting in the martyrdom of Abu Al-Wafa and two other unidentified young men, as well as the injury of 27 others, including 7 in critical condition.
Following the bombing, large Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by armored military bulldozers, stormed the city of Jenin from multiple axes, besieged the Jenin camp, cut off the roads connecting the city and the camp, seized a number of houses and buildings overlooking the camp, deployed snipers on their rooftops, and cut off electricity supply to large parts of the camp.
Our correspondent, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the occupation forces surrounding the camp from various directions are preventing ambulance vehicles from entering to transport the injured for treatment.
The Israeli military bulldozers deliberately caused significant damage to the properties of the civilians and destroyed several main roads leading to the camp, as well as secondary roads in its vicinity, hindering the arrival of ambulance vehicles to some houses to evacuate the wounded.
The skies of Jenin and its camp are witnessing intense flights of Israeli occupation aircraft, including "Apache" helicopters and reconnaissance planes.
President Mahmoud Abbas today called for an urgent meeting for the Palestinian leadership to be held later this afternoon to discuss the ongoing Israeli military assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp.
So far seven Palestinians were killed and many more injured, some of them critically, as the Israeli army continues its air and land assault on the Palestinian city.
Palestine and Jordan today discussed joint effort to halt the ongoing Israeli aggression on the northern West Bank city of Jenin that so far left five Palestinians dead and more than 30 injured.
Hussein al-Sheikh, the Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a tweet that he held an urgent call this morning with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.
“We discussed the development of the situation in Jenin and the joint effort at the Arab and international levels to stop the Israeli aggression against Jenin and its camp,” he said. “This continuous aggression against our people will drag the region into a spiral of violence and instability.”
