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At a time when the death toll from the Israeli attack on Jenin rose, the Palestinian Authority called on the United Nations to expedite the International Criminal Court's investigations into the situation in Palestine.
Today, Tuesday, the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities to stop the Israeli aggression, and to work immediately to implement its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 2334 and 904 and all other resolutions related to the protection of civilians, including Protection of children and women.
Mansour, in letters sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council for this month (United Kingdom), and the President of the United Nations General Assembly, called for their efforts to help alleviate the dangerous situation and work urgently to mobilize the capabilities of the United Nations to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people.
In his letters, he noted that the occupation forces stormed the Jenin refugee camp with more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers, backed by warplanes, and bombed it with artillery and live ammunition. As a result, nine Palestinians were killed, including three children, and many civilians, including children, were wounded. Many homes and civilian infrastructure were destroyed. It also cut off electricity and water from the camp, which exacerbated the humanitarian situation.

He said that although this pattern of premeditated killing shows Israel's blatant targeting of Palestinian children and youth, it is still not included in the list of violators of children's rights. Mansour stressed that this dangerous escalation and deterioration of the situation on the ground calls for immediate action by the international community, calling for immediate action. To make serious and urgent efforts, regionally and internationally, to stop this brutal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem.
He called on the International Criminal Court to expedite its investigation on the situation in Palestine, stressing the need to hold all perpetrators, including political and military officials and Israeli settlers, accountable for their crimes and work to prevent further crimes against the Palestinian people.
He also called on peace-loving countries to translate their long-standing solidarity with the Palestinian people into concrete actions with the aim of ensuring their protection and support in their legitimate pursuit of self-determination and all their inalienable rights, by taking the necessary measures in order to hold Israel responsible for its crimes with the aim of ending this inhuman situation. Unfortunately legal.
Mansour stressed the right of the Palestinian people to protection in accordance with international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, in addition to their right to defend themselves against the attacks of the illegal, inhuman and colonial apartheid regime, pointing to the Palestinian leadership's condemnation of all these heinous crimes against the Palestinian people. And to her urgent appeal for accountability, saving lives, upholding the rule of law, ensuring justice, and saving the peace project.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, tonight, the death of a Palestinian, during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the city of Jenin and its camp, bringing the number of martyrs of the aggression to nine Palestinians, in addition to the injury of 100 others, including 20 seriously wounded.
The occupation forces had started their aggression against the city of Jenin and its camp, by bombing a house in the middle of Jenin camp, and the occupation planes bombed several locations inside and around the camp, and in the aftermath of the aerial bombardment, large forces of the occupation army, estimated at 150 military vehicles, accompanied by armored bulldozers, stormed the city of Jenin From several axes, it besieged the Jenin camp, cut off the roads linking the city and the camp, seized a number of houses and buildings overlooking it, deployed its snipers on their roofs, and cut off the electricity supply to large parts of the camp.
Eyewitnesses said that the occupation forces, which surround the camp from various sides, prevented ambulances from entering to transport the injured to receive treatment, and their bulldozers deliberately caused severe damage to the citizens’ property, destroying many cars, and razing main roads leading to the camp, and other secondary ones in its vicinity, which impeded access to the camp. Ambulances to some homes to evacuate the injured.
The occupation forces forced hundreds of the camp's residents to leave under the threat of bombing their homes, while military reinforcements were called in, and the confrontations are still continuing between the young men and the occupation forces, amid intense flight of occupation helicopters and reconnaissance planes.