In an emailed comment, the IDF denied obstructing the work of Palestinian medics. ![]() We know there are many more injured people inside we can’t reach,” he said. But the soldiers haven’t been letting some of the ambulances through. “We are the closest medical centre to the camp, we are just 200 metres down the road. He said the hospital was treating 35 people injured in the raid, of which about 10 required surgery. “This is one of the worst days I have ever had,” said Dr Mahmoud Baslit, an orthopaedic surgeon who has worked at the Jenin government hospital for the last four years. Eight bodies lay in the morgue as weeping family members went to and fro. The local hospital was hot and chaotic, with intermittent electricity: blood streaked the floor, while people seeking shelter smoked cigarettes outside treatment rooms and tried to get some sleep in quieter corridors. The IDF said they had been used to clear the roads of improvised explosive devices. Bulldozers – another returning hallmark of the second intifada – have destroyed or damaged homes, cars and streets. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPAīy late afternoon at least eight Palestinians had been killed in the first major drone strikes in the West Bank for 15 years and ground fighting in which up to 2,000 Israeli troops have been deployed. Smoke billows from Jenin as fierce fighting rages inside the city on Monday.
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