By Awad Rajoub
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) - The Israeli army stormed the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and besieged the Jenin refugee camp, leading to clashes with Palestinian gunmen.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that large numbers of Israeli military vehicles entered the city accompanied by bulldozers.
They said the army approached from several directions and targeted several neighborhoods while imposing a siege on the Jenin camp.
Electricity was cut off in the camp and the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood while military helicopters and drones flew over the area.
“Occupation forces raided the Jabal Abu Zaheer and Al-Jabriyat neighborhoods, the outskirts of the Jenin camp, the vicinity of the district security headquarters, the ‘cinema roundabout,’ the city center, and the vicinity of Jenin Governmental Hospital,” the official Palestine news agency WAFA reported.
Activists on social media circulated video clips in which the sounds of intense gunfire were heard as they referred to armed clashes.
The West Bank is witnessing a wave of tension and confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli army, which has stepped up the conducting of night raids in several areas of the West Bank amid increased settler violence in the West Bank and the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.