12 April 2024: The West Bank
Our friend in the West Bank – whose camp we cannot mention for fear of retaliation, wrote this to us today:
“Once again: During the past ten hours, our camp has been subjected to a new aggression. Dozens of military vehicles, supported by two huge D9 military bulldozers, stormed the camp suddenly and opened fire in every direction, leading to the death of two young men and the wounding of three other young men with varying injuries.
In addition, an infantry force stormed our residential neighborhood and uprooted the gates of the houses using mobile hydraulic cranes. This attack also affected the gate of our house, but thank God they were not able to enter our daughters’ rooms due to the accumulation of rubble and debris.
The aggressors’ army withdrew a short while ago, and we are currently carrying the martyrs’ funeral to the cemetery.”
This is not the first time this camp has been attacked.
On April 3rd, there was another attack:
A new terrifying night, added to the record of nights and days in which the occupation attacked our camp, brutally destroying most of the camp’s streets using a huge D9 military bulldozer. Since the camp’s streets are narrow, this bulldozer, guarded by a military force mounted on dozens of military vehicles, removed everything in its path, including walls, entrances to homes, and infrastructure, as water and electricity were completely cut off from the camp.
The soldiers stormed many homes and attacked citizens by beating and random searches, which led to many human injuries that were transferred to hospitals after the attacking force withdrew. The attack on the camp’s citizens began at 1:30 a.m. and continued until 6 a.m., during which the sounds of gunfire, explosions, and drone flight did not stop. It is noteworthy that the Palestinian camps are located at the center of the army’s military targeting circle, because of their national symbolism and because of their refugees’ adherence to the right to return to the lands from which they were expelled in 1948.