The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (non-governmental) reported in a brief statement that its crews "dealt with the injury of two girls (12 years old) and (16 years old) with live (Israeli) bullets in the foot, in the Al-Jabariyat area of Jenin, and they were transferred to the hospital."
Local sources reported that Israeli forces suddenly raided a residential building in the area, which overlooks the Jenin refugee camp, and that gunfire was then heard inside.
The occupation army has continued its aggression on the city of Jenin and its camp since January 21, leaving 44 Palestinian martyrs and dozens more wounded and detained.
settler attacks
In the same context, Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian vehicle and spray-painted racist slogans against Palestinians east of the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank at dawn on Sunday.
Palestinian Ishaq Idris, the vehicle's owner, said a group of settlers stormed the vicinity of his home, near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, and set fire to his car parked in front of the house before fleeing.
He added that the fire consumed the front of the vehicle before residents were able to control the blaze and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the vehicle. He explained that the settlers had written racist, anti-Palestinian slogans on the walls of his home, noting that such attacks are recurring in the area, with the goal of forcing residents to leave in favor of settlement expansion.
Thousands of arrests
In a related context, a Palestinian report released on Sunday revealed that Israel has arrested approximately 18,500 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
This joint report was issued by the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and Ex-Prisoners (affiliated with the PLO), the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Ahliyan).
The report stated that the Israeli occupation army arrested approximately 18,500 Palestinians during its aggression in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, and that the total number of prisoners in Israeli prisons until the beginning of last July was approximately 10,800, including 49 women and 450 children, which is the highest number since the Al-Aqsa Intifada (the Second Intifada) in 2000.
It also reported that "the number of women arrested has risen to approximately 570, while this figure does not include the number of women arrested in Gaza, whose number is estimated in the dozens." It also documented an increase in the number of children arrested in the West Bank to at least 1,500. The number of journalists arrested has reached more than 194, 49 of whom remain in detention, according to the report.
The three organizations reported that at least 75 Palestinians, whose identities have been revealed, have been martyred in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the war of extermination. Among them are 46 from Gaza. In addition, dozens of prisoners from Gaza have been martyred in prisons and camps, but whose identities Israel has not disclosed.
In parallel with the genocide in Gaza, the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, killed at least 1,012 Palestinians and injured nearly 7,000, according to official Palestinian data.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left more than 210,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
For decades, Israel has occupied Palestine and territories in Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from these territories and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the pre-1967 borders.
