Israel blows up Jenin bakery to assassinate resistance fighter
This raid reportedly marked the first targeted assassination in Jenin since a brutal operation in the city last month
According to Israeli media outlet Walla, this raid marks Israel’s first assassination operation inside Jenin since the brutal operation last month.
“Earlier today, a large unit of the Israeli army raided Jenin, sparking intense confrontations with Palestinian youths,” WAFA news agency reported.
According to the army, Israeli troops went into Jenin to target a “cell” affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement. Two Palestinians were detained during the raid, and one was killed.
The dead resistance fighter has been identified as 32-year-old Mustafa al-Kastouni, a member of the Fatah-linked resistance faction, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade.
Kastouni was shot in the head, chest, and abdomen during clashes with Israeli forces. The bakery he was taking cover in was then blown up by Israeli troops right after his assassination.
“The Israeli army blew up Kastouni's house” as well, local sources told WAFA.
Fighters from the PIJ Jenin Brigade were engaged in the clashes alongside Kastouni.
In a statement, the Jenin Brigade said: “We exalt the martyrdom of the fighter Mustafa Al-Kastouni, one of the fighters of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, who ascended to martyrdom during his confrontation with the occupation forces, alongside our fighters in the Jenin Brigade.”
During the clashes, an Israeli soldier was injured by the bullets of the resistance. Israeli military vehicles were also targeted with explosive devices and gunfire. Damage was also inflicted on some factories in the industrial area of the Shaked settlement, in the northern West Bank, as a result of gunfire from the fighters in Jenin.
The heavy clashes follow a massive Israeli army incursion into Nablus’ Balata refugee camp one day earlier.
During the incursion, several were injured, and dozens were suffocated from Israeli tear gas. Several groups, including the PIJ Nablus Brigade and the Al-Aqsa Marty
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