JENIN: The Israeli occupation force raided early this morning the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp as well as several other West Bank cities and towns, according to various sources. Witnesses said soldiers raided Jenin in the pre-dawn hours accompanied by a bulldozer as the military vehicles were deployed by Jenin Government Hospital, next to Jenin refugee camp. The soldiers broke into several homes overlooking the camp and deployed snipers in the buildings and on rooftops as soldiers broke into homes in the refugee camp and arrested people. Power was cut in the camp and several areas as the incursion was taking place. Raids were also reported in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem in the south of the West |Bank where they seized the car of the wife of a detainee, as well as Ein al-Sultan and Aqbat Jabr refugee camps in Jericho, Qalandia refugee camp where two people were arrested, the city of Hebron and nearby Yatta, and the towns of Beita and Qaryout, south of Nablus. Confrontations were reported in some areas but no reports of injuries. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA
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