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Israel says it carried out its largest military operation in the occupied West Bank in more than 20 years, killing at least nine Palestinians. Al Jazeera's @nida_aljazeera takes a look at what we know.
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[the moment a young man was shot in the al-Fara'a camp during the occupation army's raid of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas Friday]
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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION ARMY STORMS THE WEST BANK CITY OF TUBAS IN VIOLENT RAIDS💥
📹 Scenes from the shooting of a young Palestinian man after occupation forces raided the al-Fara'a Camp in the West Bank city of Tubas Friday.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the al-Fara'a camp at approximately 9:30am [local time], operating in the camp for about 4 hours in total, with several rounds of back-up forces entered the camp shortly after the storming began.
The occupation army dispatched its forces from the Hamra military checkpoint on the outskirts of Tubas, deploying snipers on the rooftops of a number of buildings in and around the al-Fara'a Camp.
Violent clashes took place after the occupier arrived. Occupation Forces surrounded the home of Palestinian citizen Fares Sawalma, demanding a group of young men inside the home surrender to the occupation army.
Soon after, IOF soldiers fired ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenades into the besieged residential home, and later arrested the four sons of Fares Sawalma: Falah, Mujahid, Abd, and Aziz Sawalma.
At least one person was shot in the hand and later arrested inside the ambulance addressing his injuries.
Occupation soldiers also wounded two other young men, firing live bullets at them, hitting one of the young men in the chest and the second in his lower torso before being taken to the Turkish hospital in Tubas to receive treatment for their injuries.
Another Palestinian citizen, Mahmoud Ahmed Shubaki, was arrested by occupation soldiers during the raid, bringing the number of detained Palestinian hostages in the raid to six.
Two drones were also shot down during the operation, however it is unclear to whom the drones belonged or who shot them down, though it was likely an occupation drone shot down by local citizens or resistance forces in the area.
Since Wednesday night, Israeli forces raided the cities of Tulkarem, Nablus, Ramallah, Tubas, and the Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron, arresting at least 20 Palestinians according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
Last week, an Israeli raid on Jenin killed 12 Palestinians, while largely destroying the camp’s infrastructure. The current raid pattern has been increasing in frequency and violence, especially in the northern West Bank refugee camps — notably in Tulkarem, Jenin, and Nablus.
On Wednesday, the Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who handles the administrative powers over the occupied West Bank, called upon the Israeli army to conduct a “defensive war” in the West Bank, similar to the one in Gaza. Smotrich has called in the past to wipe out Palestinian towns, arguing that it should be the Israeli army, not the settlers, to carry out such actions.
Also on Wednesday, the member of the PLO’s department for refugee camps responsible for the northern West Bank, Nancy Thouqan, told the Palestine News Network that what Israel is doing in the northern West Bank is already similar to what it is doing in Gaza.
Thouqan pointed out that the northern camps house the largest number of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, and have been the center of Palestinian activism in recent years. According to Thouqan, Israel aims at depopulating these camps, similarly to its attempts to depopulate the Gaza Strip, and to undermine the work of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
On Wednesday, UNRWA’s chief Philippe Lazzarini said that Israel’s smearing of the agency led some to believe that UN missions are legitimate targets. Lazzarini added that the size of Israeli attacks on UNRWA staff in the current war “deserve an investigation.” Since October, Israeli forces have killed 188 UNRWA employees, according to the agency’s own data as of May 7.
-- From "‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 237" by Qassam Muaddi for Mondoweiss, 30 May 2024
Resistance leader Saif Abu Dawas has ascended to martyrdom, succumbing to his wounds as a result of the IOF's massacre in Tubas two weeks ago. Glory to the martyrs.
Israel launched a large military offensive in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, attacking three cities from land and air. Drone strikes hit Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas as soldiers opened fire at people on the ground killing at least ten people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The lsraeli military said it was carrying out a large "counter-terror" operation in Jenin and Tulkarm without elaborating further. Israeli public broadcaster Kan News reported that the assault is the largest conducted by the lsraeli military since the 2002 "Defensive Shield" attack at the height of the Second Intifada.
‼️🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli forces storm Far’a refugee camp in the West Bank, are met with explosive devices from Palestinian resistance groups
[Plain text: Israeli forces storm Far’a refugee camp in the West Bank, are met with explosive devices from Palestinian resistance groups]
Original video caption reads: “Plumes of smoke rise after the occupation forces were targeted with an explosive device in Far’a camp, south of Tubas.”
[Plain text: Original video caption reads: “Plumes of smoke rise after the occupation forces were targeted with an explosive device in Far’a camp, south of Tubas.”]
🔹 Video description: a short video of smoke rising from behind buildings inside a city. It is nighttime.
🔸 Sources: Al Jazeera (news image), Palestinian Information Center (video)
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