Occupying Regime Blows Up Homes of Palestinian Prisoners

Date: 08 March 2022 - 21:46

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JENIN (Dispatches) – Zionist troops on Wednesday blew up the homes of two prisoners in Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin, while several Palestinians were injured in confrontations with the Zionist troops that stormed the town this morning.

Palestinian sources said that occupation troops blew up the house Ghaith and Muhammad Jaradat.

At least eight Palestinians were wounded by live bullets and dozens suffered suffocation as a result of the use of tear gas, during confrontations with occupation forces in the town.

Local sources told WAFA news agency that the troops turned Silat al-Harithiya into a military barracks, closed all entrances to the town and prevented citizens from entering or leaving it, while a reconnaissance plane flew overhead.

Rights groups have condemned the tactic as “collective punishment.”

The occupying forces regularly carry out demolitions of homes belonging to native Palestinians in the occupied enclave to intimidate and scare them off.

Last year, demolitions and seizure of properties belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank shot up by 32 percent. Over 650 Palestinians were displaced as a result, more than half of them children.

Zionist troops have in recent months brutally suppressed protests held across the occupied West Bank and in East Al-Quds against the regime’s aggression, leaving dozens of Palestinians injured.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that 20 people were hit with rubber-coated bullets fired by the Zionist troops during the clashes in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, on Friday.

It said two emergency medical technicians were also wounded when Zionist troops fired rubber-coated bullets at the ambulance car they were driving in.

Six protesters were also hit with bullets on Sobeih Mountain in Beita, while 36 others suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops.

Zionist Troops Injured

A car ramming retaliatory attack targeting Zionist troops and military forces has reportedly injured two troops in the Palestinian village of Silat al-Harithiya near the West Bank city of Jenin.

The late Monday incident took place just hours after an alleged stabbing attack against the regime’s troops in Al-Quds’s Old City, Palestinian news outlets reported.

The driver of the car involved in the ramming retaliation, which also damaged an armored military vehicle, has been arrested and is being interrogated by the regime’s military agents, they said.

The injured Zionist troops were reportedly transferred to a treatment center at a military base.

The retaliation came after Zionist troops shot dead a Palestinian youth in the Old City on Monday amid escalating tensions in the city over the regime’s planned eviction of Palestinian families and relentless attacks on Palestinians who pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.