{"id":239129,"date":"2023-07-17T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=239129"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:20:27","slug":"palestine-destruction-in-jenin-is-catastrophic-this-is-what-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/palestine-destruction-in-jenin-is-catastrophic-this-is-what-we-know-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine: Destruction in Jenin Is \u2018Catastrophic\u2019: This Is What We Know So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Part of the destruction left behind by the Israeli invasion of Jenin, July 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

5 Jul 2023 –<\/em> The Palestine Chronicle<\/em> reports today:<\/p>\n

Only after 12 Palestinians were buried in Jenin, and after local and international media entered the camp, the picture of the destruction left in the wake of the Israeli invasion became clearer.\u00a0 In short, the Jenin refugee camp is almost destroyed, the kind of destruction that can only be compared to the invasion and destruction of Jenin in 2002.<\/p>\n

In both cases, the culprit and the victim were the same as of today.<\/p>\n

\u2018Catastrophic\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today afternoon, the Jenin governorate warned of the deterioration of the humanitarian situation of thousands of residents because of the Israeli occupation targeting of infrastructure of the city and its camp.\u00a0 For 38 hours, starting at dawn on Tuesday, July 3, the Israeli military did nothing but destroy, eyewitnesses say. The devastation has surpassed the most pessimistic of expectations.<\/p>\n

Local authorities in Jenin estimated that about 80 percent of buildings in the camp were completely or partially damaged, Aljazeera Net reported.<\/p>\n

The governor of Jenin in the Palestinian Authority, Akram Rajoub, announced today the start of an official committee to assess the damage of the Israeli military operation in the camp.<\/p>\n

For his part, the deputy governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub, revealed in a preliminary assessment that the camp, which consists of about a thousand properties distributed between houses and apartments, about 80% of them were damaged, and the damage ranged from total and partial destruction \u2013 burning, vandalism and damage to property.<\/p>\n

The destruction was systematic, according to eyewitness accounts and videos and images that emerged following the Israeli redeployment. Israeli soldiers would move from one house to another, leaving behind nothing but ruins and pulverized concrete.\u00a0 Jenin Mayor Nidal Abedi described the scale of destruction inside the camp as \u2018catastrophic\u2019, noting that the infrastructure in the camp was destroyed.<\/p>\n

Piles of Iron<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, electricity, drinking water and landlines were cut off and the sewage network was damaged.\u00a0 Dozens of vehicles were burned, and some turned to a pile of iron on roads where walking has become, at times, impossible.<\/p>\n

Many residents who were forced by the Israeli occupation forces to leave their homes and take refuge in hospitals reported that the attacks of the occupation army also pursued them inside hospitals, which they thought would be a haven.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the representative of the World Health Organization in the Palestinian territories told Aljazeera that more than 500 families in Jenin have left or been forced out of their homes, and that the health sector in the city is operating in fragile and \u2018exceptional conditions\u2019.<\/p>\n

He also stated that during their aggression against the city, Israeli forces had attacked three hospitals, stressing that the financial resources allocated to hospitals were insufficient and that it was important to ensure the necessary equipment in them.<\/p>\n

Aside from the 12 Palestinians killed, 120 others were wounded, 20 of whom are in serious condition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> <\/em>Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist or not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people. We support the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel\u2019s 1967 borders. We work to build worldwide Jewish opposition to the Israeli Occupation, with like-minded groups around the world and are a founding member of <\/em>European Jews for a Just Peace<\/em>, a federation of Jewish groups in ten European countries.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 jfjfp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Jul 2023 – Residents who were forced by the Israeli occupation forces to leave their homes and take refuge in hospitals reported that the attacks pursued them inside hospitals, supposed to be a haven. There were 12 Palestinians killed and 120 wounded, 20 of whom in serious condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[928,532,101,100,2898,865,2414,2415,2416,767,771,427,85,2897,880,99,92,1025,886],"class_list":["post-239129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-colonialism","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ecocide","tag-genocide","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-army","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-middle-east","tag-nakba","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239132,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239129\/revisions\/239132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}