Several Israeli forces killed, injured as resistance stages determined retaliation

Palestinian resistance fighters have put up decisive struggle against invading Israeli forces in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, killing and injuring several of the troops.

The developments took place on Saturday, the 12th straight day of widespread Israeli aggression across the West Bank, most notably in Jenin as well as the cities of Tulkarem, Ramallah, Tubas, al-Khalil (Hebron), and Nablus.

The fighters featured West Bank-based members of al-Qassam Brigades, the Gaza Strip-based resistance movement Hamas’ armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of similarly Gaza-headquartered resistance movement Islamic Jihad, and Jenin’s homegrown resistance fighters.

Together, the resistance groups released a statement, detailing their successful operations.

“Our fighters are engaged in fierce battles with occupation forces in the eastern axis, showering enemy troops and military vehicles with heavy gunfire, achieving confirmed hits,” the statement said.

“Our fighters ambushed a 10-soldier enemy unit, trapping them in heavy fire at point-blank range, causing confirmed casualties,” it added.

In the town of Arraba in Jenin, the resistance fighters also clashed with invading forces, while their engineering unit detonated a explosive device on a military vehicle along the reinforcement route, “achieving direct hits,” it concluded.

Six Israeli soldiers killed, injured as Jenin fights back onslaught

An Israeli soldier has been killed and five others were wounded during an exchange of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters at the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

Also on Sunday, local sources reported an ongoing campaign of bloodshed and destruction, especially targeting the city and Tulkarem, which had so far claimed the lives of many Palestinians, and resulted in destruction of infrastructure, burning and demolishing of homes, and forcible displacement of hundreds of families.

’15,000 displaced in Jenin’

Recounting the horrors, Jenin Mayor Mohammad Jarrar said as many as 15,000 Palestinians had been displaced from the Jenin Refugee Camp and the city’s al-Hadaf neighborhood amid the aggression.

“Over 100 homes have been completely destroyed in Jenin camp and its surroundings,” he noted, adding, “Four hospitals in the city are without water after occupation forces destroyed supply lines, leaving 35% of Jenin without access to water.”

“The aggression extends beyond military objectives, serving a political agenda aligned with the far-right government. The city faces a severe humanitarian crisis.”

According to Jarrar, ground troops were being aided by overhead warplanes, which recently carried out three airstrikes against Jenin.

The rampant Israeli bloodletting and devastation comes around 20 days after the Israeli regime supposedly ended its 15-month-long war of genocide against Gaza that claimed the lives of at least 47,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Despite claiming to have ended the brutal military onslaught, the regime’s military has gone on to kill around 500 more Palestinians across the coastal territory.

On January 25, Hamas warned that the West Bank was the “next” area of main confrontation between the regime and the Palestinian resistance.

Hamas believes West Bank to be ‘next’ theater of war between Israel, resistance

Hamas believes the Israeli-occupied West Bank to be the “next” area of main confrontation between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance.

“We believe that the main confrontation will be in the West Bank not in Gaza Strip because again the Israeli regime is considering the West Bank, including [the holy occupied city of] al-Quds, to be strategically the next goal of its annexation,” Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’ Political Bureau and a former Palestinian minister, said at the time.

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