JENIN (Dispatches) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the Zionist regime against “committing any aggression” on the West Bank city of Jenin, a statement announced.
In the statement on Friday, Hamas expressed: “We warn the Israeli occupation against committing any aggression on our families in Jenin, which is the stronghold of resistance in the occupied West Bank.”
Hamas added: “Our people will stand united in support for our people in Jenin.”
The Palestinian resistance groups have warned the occupying regime is preparing for a wide-scale invasion of Jenin under the claim that one of the two escapees, who have not yet been recaptured, has entered it.
According to the statement, Hamas also warned the Zionist regime against its continuous harassment of the Palestinian prisoners.
On Friday, Zionist troops wounded 217 Palestinians protesting against illegal settlements in the West Bank, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disclosed in a statement.
The PRCS revealed that 217 protesters were injured, including 35 shot by rubber-coated metal bullets and 182 subjected to suffocation after inhaling tear gas.
Eyewitnesses told reporters that fierce clashes broke out on Friday afternoon between dozens of protesters and Zionist troops in the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Clashes in Beita have been ongoing for almost four months in protest against establishing a settlement outpost on lands owned by the villagers.
The protesters on Friday waved Palestinian flags, chanted slogans against the occupation and threw stones at the Zionist troops who fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse them.
Meanwhile, medics said that dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured by Zionist troops during clashes in Al-Mughayyir, a village east of Ramallah, in protest against the regime’s settlement expansion, according to Marzouq Abu N’iem, the head of the village.