Two Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Balata refugee camp

Two Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Balata refugee camp
Two Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Balata refugee camp

Israeli forces entered Balata camp and surrounded a house

The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that two Palestinians were killed, Saturday, by bullets Israeli forces After storming the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, and besieging a house.

The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WafaSaturday, on the authority of the ambulance director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, as saying that two citizens were wounded by live bullets.

On Saturday, a special force of the Israeli army stormed the Balata camp in the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, which led to the outbreak of armed clashes in the camp.

He added, “There are vigorous attempts to transfer them to Rafidia Hospital.”

And the agency reported that “special forces accompanied by Israeli forces surrounded a house in al-Jamasin neighborhood in the center of the camp, and a number of snipers climbed the roofs of the houses, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, punctuated by heavy firing of bullets and tear gas canisters.”

And she pointed out that “the Israeli forces closed the entrances to the camp, and demanded through loudspeakers that a citizen inside it surrender himself, or they will work to detonate him.”

This comes at a time when Iyad Abu Al-Anas and Muhammad Abdel-Al, two leaders of the Military Council of the Jihad movement, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in Al-Nasr neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, on Friday.

Illustrative map of Balata Palestinian camp

In addition, the Jihad Movement in Palestine threatened a major response to Israel, as a result of the raid that targeted a residential building in Al-Nasr City.

Since the start of the military operations, 12 Jihad leaders have been killed in Israeli raids, while 254 military targets of the movement have been destroyed, including weapons stockpiles and launchers.

In this regard, approximately 1,000 rockets were launched towards Israeli territory, which caused the death of one person and the injury of dozens on the Israeli side.