Israeli forces fired tear gas inside of a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin that injured 125 people as a two-day raid on the city continued, Doctors Without Borders said.
The tear gas fired inside of the hospital made the emergency room "unusable," and the ER and the rest of the hospital were "completely filled with smoke," after the attack, Doctors Without Borders said in a tweet.
An Israeli armoured vehicle fires tear gas during an ongoing military operation in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank, July 4, 2023.MORE: Israel launches most intense military operation in West Bank in years; at least 8 Palestinians dead Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an outpost near the Jenin camp on Tuesday after an car rammed into a bus stop in Tel Aviv in protest of the raid, injuring six. Netanyahu doubled down on his justification for the raid, claiming Israeli forces destroyed important strongholds used by "terrorists."
Most of the Jenin camp does not have access to drinking water because of damage from the raid. Initial estimates also show that most of the camp is without electricity, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesperson Vanessa Huguenin said Tuesday.
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