Palestinian Authority denounces that the Israeli Army fired at a hospital in Jenin

He Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health denounced that he Army Israeli shot at a hospital today Jeninwhich left three Palestinians wounded, two of them seriously, in the framework of the military operation on this city, from which the troops are withdrawing after two days of fighting.

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In a statement, the Palestinian Minister of Health, May al-Kailaassured that the Israeli forces attacked this afternoon the Jenin Government Hospitalone of the main medical centers in the city and very close to its refugee camp, where clashes with local Palestinian militias who are Israel’s main target continued until night.

According to Healththe Israeli Army in these two days of operation launched “their attacks on medical facilities, hospitals and ambulance teams” from the city, “an aggression that is a challenge to all international laws”.

In turn, beyond Government Hospital -where this morning the Israeli troops also fired tear gas-, Health denounced that the other two hospitals in the city were also attacked during the last two days of the offensive, which threatened “to patients and medical staff.”

For his part, an Israeli Army spokesman said in a statement that for now he has no record of such incidents, adding that the information released by the Palestinian side “It is not currently known to the security forces.”

“Since the entry of the Israeli forces into the city, the terrorist organizations they have exploited civilian areas as hideouts and their residents as human shields,” said the Army.

After complaints these days of Palestinian Ministry of Health and of Doctors without borderswhich accused Israel of hindering access to medical services to treat the wounded, the Israeli Army claimed that its forces “Allow movement of Palestinian medical teams” to move around the city and “reduce harm to non-combatants”.

This military operation is the largest carried out by the Israeli Army in Jenin from the second intifada (2000-2005), and included a ground operation with a thousand soldiers and airstrikes, something that had not occurred for almost two decades.

The Israeli offensive focused on nipping in the bud the capabilities of the Jenin Brigadea local armed group that has gained weight in the last year as tensions have intensified in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which This 2023 is experiencing its deadliest year in the last two decadeswith a total of 156 Palestinians killed.

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in the last two daysfour of them minors, and most of them militiamen, while more than a hundred people were injured and there are twenty in a serious situation.

Source: Elcomercio

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