Last Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a military operation targeting the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank under the title “Iron Wall.”

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Today quoted a senior military official in the occupation army as saying: “The goal of Operation Iron Wall is to neutralize the Jenin Battalion. Until we reach this goal, it may take some time.”

In a special interview with Beit Al-Maqdis News Agency, journalist Nour Fares, who is present in the vicinity of the camp, said that the operation began when an undercover Israeli force infiltrated one of the houses inside the Jenin camp the day before yesterday, and military reinforcements followed them to the camp.

Fares said: “Until this moment, and since Tuesday, the occupation forces continue to besiege Jenin camp and close the main and secondary roads leading to it. Until this moment, more than 11 martyrs and more than 40 wounded have been killed in the camp.”

Fares added: “The aggression coincided with a complete siege of hospitals around the camp and the camp entrances, preventing medical teams from entering it, and conducting complex searches of ambulances and crews.”

She continued, “The occupation forces continue to call on the camp’s residents via loudspeakers to evacuate it. Eyewitnesses from inside the camp reported that the occupation officers told the camp’s residents that their military presence in the camp would continue for two months, and threatened the camp’s residents with turning the camp into a “new Jabalia.”

Regarding the situation inside the camp, Nour Fares reported that the camp is experiencing a state of anticipation and anxiety amidst the power outage and communication networks in it, as there is no news coming from inside the camp, except through the citizens who were able to leave the camp after the occupation forces forcibly evacuated them from the camp.

Fares pointed out that the occupation used drones to bomb several areas in Jenin camp, and concluded her speech by saying: “There are violent clashes taking place in the camp between the resistance and the occupation forces, and the Jenin Battalion detonated a number of locally-made explosive devices in the occupation vehicles and caused losses among its ranks, according to military reports issued by the battalion.”