The Israeli army and the Palestinian Authority are besieging and attacking hospitals in Jenin

Israeli Armed forces continue siege and attacks on two hospitals in Jenin for the second day in a row after the A-missile launch serious attack north occupied City on the West Bank, as Palestinian Government forces (PA) attacked the third hospital.

Medical teams trying to provide care came under direct Israeli fire, and paramedics were unable to reach the dead and wounded who remain strewn in the streets.

Since the attack began on Tuesday morning, Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded 40, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

During the raid, Israeli military bulldozers destroyed the main road leading to the government hospital in Jenin, blocking access with earthen barriers.

Wissam Bakr, the hospital’s director, told Middle East Eye that the bulldozers made it difficult for medical teams to get in and out.

More than 600 displaced people sought shelter in the hospital, which was surrounded by armed forces and left without access to food for the day.

“The situation was dire last night,” Bakr said.

“The hospital was overflowing with displaced people and patients, and the Israeli army surrounded it on all sides. We were afraid they would attack him or start shooting.”

While there have been hospital sieges in previous military raids, this one is described as the heaviest in history.

When the invasion began, hundreds of displaced people arrived at the hospital, many of them forced to sleep in the corridors.

Despite the hospital administration’s attempts to coordinate food deliveries, the Israeli military prevented them from reaching those inside.

“We didn’t know what to do and started imagining what happened in the hospitals in Gaza.”

– Iyad Salahat, resident of Jenin

According to Bakr, on Wednesday morning the Israeli army allowed some of the displaced people to leave the hospital on foot, but only after searching them and arresting several people.

Iyad Salahat, who accompanied his sick mother to the hospital during the attack, described the fear and uncertainty surrounding the siege.

The loud noise of military vehicles and bulldozers, combined with threats over loudspeakers, made him fear that the hospital might suffer the same fate as the hospital destroyed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

“We didn’t know what to do and started imagining what happened in the hospitals in Gaza,” Salahat told MEE.

“Are they storming the hospital? Will they evacuate us? Will they kill the doctors or arrest them? Everything seemed possible.”

Salahat and his family were among those allowed to leave on Wednesday.

“They divided us into groups of five, then searched us thoroughly and forced us to undress,” he explained.

“They arrested at least 10 people who came out and forced us to walk in one line.”

He added that an Israeli drone flew overhead, apparently helping soldiers with inspections.

Indiscriminate shooting

At al-Amal Hospital in Jenin, the Israeli siege was more violent, with soldiers firing indiscriminately into the courtyard, wounding at least three doctors and two hospital workers.

Their injuries were described as moderate to minor.

Ihsan Rawajba, a receptionist at the hospital, described the situation as chaotic, and shots were heard throughout the hospital on Tuesday.

Rawajba told MEE that the nurse was shot outside the hospital and left bleeding until a paramedic managed to save him.

He added that the shooting was random and without warning.

The hospital remains under tight siege, with no one allowed in or out except for one ambulance, which is subject to inspection at every entrance and exit.

“We are forced to deliver food to people in hospital by ambulance, but its staff are constantly at risk,” Rawajba said.

“We can only accept new victims under the inspection and supervision of the Israeli army,” he added.

Separately, PA security forces on Wednesday stormed al-Razi Hospital in Jenin and arrested a wounded man believed to be a member of the Jenin battalion and wanted by the Israeli army.

The PA raid appeared to be the first public involvement of Palestinian forces in an Israeli military attack in the West Bank.