Troops have closed off all entrances to Jenin Camp while continuing to blow up homes and displace Palestinian families
Israeli army troops intensified their siege on the occupied West Bank’s Jenin on 4 March, coinciding with the continued forced displacement of Palestinians from the city’s refugee camp and the escalation of fierce clashes between the resistance and Tel Aviv’s forces.
Army vehicles closed off all entrances to the camp early on Tuesday, preventing ambulances from reaching injured Palestinians.
In video footage circulating on social media, violent machinegun clashes could be heard, as well as the sounds of explosions from the Israeli army’s detonation of Palestinian homes in the Jenin Refugee Camp.
“Our fighters were able to confront the enemy forces that stormed the eastern neighborhood and showered them with heavy volleys of direct bullets, achieving confirmed injuries,” the Jenin Brigades of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Quds Brigades said in a statement on 4 March.
The assault on Jenin began in January and quickly expanded to include several other towns and cities in the occupied West Bank. Israeli occupation forces have been attacking and besieging the city for 43 days.
One Palestinian was killed in Jenin on Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll in the city up to 29 since the assault began.
“The assault has displaced approximately 20,000 residents of Jenin Camp, who have sought refuge in shelters and the homes of relatives … Occupation forces have conducted 336 raids, while Israeli drones have carried out approximately 15 airstrikes,” the Jenin Camp Media committee said in a statement.
“Occupation forces set fire to homes, detonated a residential apartment in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, and forced families to evacuate their homes under the threat of bombardment,” it added.
More Palestinian families fled their homes in Jenin and its camp on Tuesday.
Israeli occupation forces are also waging a massive assault on Tulkarem. Nearly 10,000 Palestinians have been displaced from the city’s Nour Shams Camp.
Tel Aviv has said that it will continue to expand its West Bank operations and that its forces will remain inside its refugee camps for the next year.
Army vehicles closed off all entrances to the camp early on Tuesday, preventing ambulances from reaching injured Palestinians.
In video footage circulating on social media, violent machinegun clashes could be heard, as well as the sounds of explosions from the Israeli army’s detonation of Palestinian homes in the Jenin Refugee Camp.
“Our fighters were able to confront the enemy forces that stormed the eastern neighborhood and showered them with heavy volleys of direct bullets, achieving confirmed injuries,” the Jenin Brigades of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Quds Brigades said in a statement on 4 March.
The assault on Jenin began in January and quickly expanded to include several other towns and cities in the occupied West Bank. Israeli occupation forces have been attacking and besieging the city for 43 days.
One Palestinian was killed in Jenin on Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll in the city up to 29 since the assault began.
“The assault has displaced approximately 20,000 residents of Jenin Camp, who have sought refuge in shelters and the homes of relatives … Occupation forces have conducted 336 raids, while Israeli drones have carried out approximately 15 airstrikes,” the Jenin Camp Media committee said in a statement.
“Occupation forces set fire to homes, detonated a residential apartment in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, and forced families to evacuate their homes under the threat of bombardment,” it added.
More Palestinian families fled their homes in Jenin and its camp on Tuesday.
Israeli occupation forces are also waging a massive assault on Tulkarem. Nearly 10,000 Palestinians have been displaced from the city’s Nour Shams Camp.
Tel Aviv has said that it will continue to expand its West Bank operations and that its forces will remain inside its refugee camps for the next year.
The US president plans to cut federal funding to universities where protests against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza take place, as well as expel and imprison students who participate
US President Donald Trump threatened on 4 March to cut all federal funding for US universities and colleges that allow “illegal protests” on their campuses, adding that foreign students who participate “will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came.”
“American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested,” Trump further threatened in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The comments came in response to complaints by pro-Israeli lobbying groups, who are angered by large-scale student protests that took place on campuses across the country last year against US support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Despite the participation in the protests by many anti-Zionist Jewish students, Trump claimed that pro-Palestinian campus protests had unleashed an “unprecedented wave of vile antisemitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses.”
Shortly after Trump posted his statement to social media, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education (ED), and the US General Services Administration (GSA) announced the establishment of a task force to carry out a comprehensive “review of Columbia University's federal contracts and grants in light of ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
Some of the largest protests against Israel's genocide of Palestinians took place last year at Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League university located in New York City.
“Given Columbia's ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students, the Federal Government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is considering Stop Work Orders for $51.4 million in contracts between Columbia University and the Federal Government,” a statement issued by the three government departments stated.
“The task force will also conduct a comprehensive review of the more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to Columbia University to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities,” the statement added.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump Israel's “greatest friend ever,” after the White House announced an additional $4 billion in expedited arms sales, including large bunker-buster bombs that have devastated Gaza and helped Israel kill some 50,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
However, a peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal estimated that the actual death count is likely 41 percent higher than the official health ministry count.
“American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested,” Trump further threatened in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The comments came in response to complaints by pro-Israeli lobbying groups, who are angered by large-scale student protests that took place on campuses across the country last year against US support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Despite the participation in the protests by many anti-Zionist Jewish students, Trump claimed that pro-Palestinian campus protests had unleashed an “unprecedented wave of vile antisemitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses.”
Shortly after Trump posted his statement to social media, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education (ED), and the US General Services Administration (GSA) announced the establishment of a task force to carry out a comprehensive “review of Columbia University's federal contracts and grants in light of ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
Some of the largest protests against Israel's genocide of Palestinians took place last year at Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League university located in New York City.
“Given Columbia's ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students, the Federal Government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is considering Stop Work Orders for $51.4 million in contracts between Columbia University and the Federal Government,” a statement issued by the three government departments stated.
“The task force will also conduct a comprehensive review of the more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to Columbia University to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities,” the statement added.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump Israel's “greatest friend ever,” after the White House announced an additional $4 billion in expedited arms sales, including large bunker-buster bombs that have devastated Gaza and helped Israel kill some 50,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
However, a peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal estimated that the actual death count is likely 41 percent higher than the official health ministry count.
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