Occupation forces damage electricity and water networks in massive Jenin raid

21 May 2014
Source: Middle East Monitor

Occupation forces damage electricity and water networks in massive Jenin raidn a massive raid, Israeli occupation forces arrested on Tuesday at dawn a youth from the Jenin refugee camp, injuring a number of citizens who suffered from suffocation. Following the arrest, occupation forces damaged the water and electricity networks, as well as ransacked people's homes and property in city and in the camps, storming the Khalil Suleiman hospital whilst positioning snipers throughout the area.

Security sources and eye witnesses told Sama news agency that occupation forces arrested Qays Mazin Alsadi, a youth aged 22, after storming the Jenin camp with massive military force, with over 40 trucks, live ammunition, metal bullets, tear gas and sound bombs.

The news agency reported that a wide scale attack ensued, with a number of houses stormed and their belongings destroyed, with inhabitants forced into the streets without dressing and taken in for questioning in the east of Jenin. Occupation forces also damaged the water and electricity infrastructure, and the hospital and emergency centre was stormed after tear gas was fired.

Sources added that after storming and destroying the insides of the houses, occupation forces and their units positioned snipers on the rooftops of the houses. Bombs were thrown into a well belonging to Ahmad Khaled Alsadi, a citizen living in the east of Jenin. His belongings were also destroyed, as were those of Ahmad Alsadi, Ahmad Motlak Alsadi, Taiser Bezour, Adly Jarar, Shouqi Altaher and Hamouda Aldeeb.

In the Jenin camp, the homeowners who had their houses stormed and belongings destroyed include: Sheikh Basam Alsadi, Mazen Alsadi, Samih Abu Alsaba, Yahya Alzard and Abdelrahman Fadl.
Clashes between civilians and the occupation forces ensued, with numerous citizens suffering from suffocation due to the tear gas used around the hospital, inside the camp and in the Zahra district of the city.

Link:  middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11618-occupation-forces-damage-electricity-and-water-networks-in-massive-jenin-raid.