Displaced Residents Refused Entry Into Jenin Camp to Collect Belongings, Palestinian Reports Say

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Displaced residents waited to be allowed to collect their belongings from the homes they had been forced to leave in Jenin, in the West Bank, but were refused entry by the Israeli military on Wednesday, February 19, Palestinian reports said.Footage posted by Palestine Post shows a group of people waiting in front of a shop near the Shifa hospital in Jenin.Palestine Post said that the residents had coordinated to enter the camp to collect their belongings at noon on Wednesday.Other video filmed by Palestine Post journalists shows Israeli soldiers preventing residents from entering the camp on Wednesday.WAFA reported that Israeli forces arrested “a child and a young man” who were waiting to get to their homes in the camp.The outlet also reported that a woman was injured by gunfire at the entrance to the camp on Wednesday.More than 55 Palestinians had been killed in military operations across the West Bank since January 21, according to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, citing Palestinian officials.The IDF, meanwhile, said it was targeting “terrorist” groups operating in Jenin and other areas of the West Bank, and said it had made multiple arrests, seized weapons, and had “eliminated” at least 65 “terrorists” since it launched the operation. Credit: Palestine Post via Storyful
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