| Follow up to this story from yesterday. Also see detailed subsequent post here. |
According to Paleostinian Health Ministry, one of the Paleostinian youths killed in Israel’s early Monday raid has been identified as 21-year-old Samih Abu al-Wafa. They were fatally shot after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the center of the Jenin refugee camp with several missiles.
| That was no house. They call that the 'joint operations centre', the command post for the 'Jenin Brigade'. |
Paleostinian media said Israeli forces stormed the camp from two directions, while resistance fighters targeted their vehicles with homemade bombs.
In addition to the house targeted in the center of the Jenin refugee camp, Israeli aircraft bombed several other locations across the camp, causing injuries among its residents.
As the aerial raid on the camp continued, a large number of Israeli forces, accompanied by military bulldozers and supported by Apache helicopters and reconnaissance planes, stormed the city of Jenin .
"There is bombing from the air and an invasion from the ground," Mahmoud al-Saadi, director of the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy in Jenin, was quoted by AFP as saying, adding, "Several houses and sites have been bombed....smoke is rising from everywhere."
Israel’s Kan television channel claimed the decision to launch the military operation in Jenin was taken about two weeks ago, but it was postponed until the end of the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
Various Paleostinian resistance movements were quick to react to the occupying regime’s nocturnal raid on Jenin.
The Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, which is headquartered in the besieged Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, issued a statement, condemning the raid.
The Islamic Jihad said Jenin will not surrender "and our fighters are determined to confront the Zionist enemy and fight regardless of the sacrifices they may have to make."
The movement said the Zionist enemy bears full responsibility for the consequences of this aggression, adding that Israel will fail to achieve its objectives while Jenin will remain a symbol of steadfastness.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), for its part, slammed the Israeli savagery, saying, "The Zionist aggression against Jenin and the crimes of the occupation will only strengthen our people’s determination and steadfastness to continue the resistance."
"We call on our people in all the neighboring villages and towns to unite with the people of Jenin to repel this terrorist aggression," it added.
Hazem Qassem, a front man for the Gaza-based Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, resistance movement, said the Israeli onslaught against Jenin will not achieve its goals and the Zionist enemy will fail.
He added that Israel’s fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...and hard boy cabinet, headed by the its criminal prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, bears all responsibility for the consequences of tonight’s aggression against Jenin.
The Hamas front man noted that the occupying regime "will not be able to win the battle against the resistance and our people, who will continue their struggle and fight until achieving their goals of freedom and independence."
Qassem added that Jenin, along with all other Paleostinian cities, will continue their uprising despite the crimes of Israel, stressing that "the will of our people to stand firm is stronger than the military machine of the occupation."
Head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, also reacted to Israel’s attack on Jenin, emphasizing that the blood shed in Jenin will determine the next stage of the fight against the regime.
Haniyeh said, "Our people know how to respond to this barbaric aggression in all places where they are present."
He also called on all Paleostinian people throughout the West Bank to stand by Jenin and defend its people in order to thwart the enemy’s plans.
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Thousands flee Jenin as Israel indicates terror crackdown will continue
[IsraelTimes] IDF denies reports it ordered evacuation of West Bank city, as Paleostinians stream out of refugee camp and Israeli reinforcements move in
Thousands of Paleostinians streamed out of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Monday night to escape fighting as Israeli forces push ahead with a major anti-terror operation launched almost 24 hours earlier. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy emergency services group said 3,000 people had been evacuated from a densely populated quarter of the city.
"There are about 3,000 people who have left the camp so far," Jenin deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Roub told AFP, adding that arrangements were being made to house them in schools and other shelters in the city of Jenin. He said about 18,000 Paleostinians reside in the camp.
Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
agency for Paleostinian refugees, confirmed to AFP that residents of the camp were leaving. Footage released by Paleostinian media showed crowds walking out of Jenin, some moving past Israeli military vehicles. Paleostinian media reports also said the Israeli military was deploying reinforcements to Jenin. In footage shared online, a large convoy of army vehicles, including bulldozers, were seen entering the area Monday evening.
Israeli officials denied ordering an evacuation after Paleostinian media said the IDF had instructed residents to leave the area. The IDF’s Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said the evacuation reports were baseless. Security officials told the Ynet news site that the Israel Defense Forces did not issue an evacuation order, and that the Jenin residents were fleeing to escape the fighting. Hundreds of armed hard boyz were holed up in the refugee camp, the officials said, stoking fears among residents they could be caught in the crossfire.
Throughout the operation on Monday, IDF troops who entered Jenin, located weapon storage sites, explosives labs, and other "terror infrastructure," clashed with armed Paleostinians, and carried out airstrikes against various targets in the refugee camp, the IDF said in a statement.
Paleostinian health officials said eight people were killed and at least 80 others were maimed, including 17 listed at death's door, during the strikes and in festivities with Israeli forces, which continued into the night on Monday. Several of the slain Paleostinians were identified by media reports as members of gangs in the city, although there was no immediate official statement issued by Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
or other local terror organizations.
IDF uncovers hidden weapons, explosive store under mosque in Jenin
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops located hidden underground storage sites with weapons and explosives inside a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin.
After lengthy shootouts with armed Paleostinians who were holed up inside the mosque, Israeli forces managed to break in, the IDF says.
The IDF says that on the ground floor, troops found two underground storage sites containing explosivesAi, weapons, and other military equipment.
The equipment is being seized and destroyed, the IDF adds.
Troops uncover explosives lab in Jenin with hundreds of prepared devices
[IsraelTimes] Troops operating the West Bank city of Jenin have uncovered an explosives laboratory with hundreds of devices already prepared for use, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The IDF says two similar labs with dozens of makeshift bombs are also found in the area.
The soldiers confiscated the weapons and explosives, the IDF says.