'We demand accountability: End U.S. military funding to Israel now,' said jvplive
"This is how the Israeli government treats Gaza—and now Netanyahu brought it to the occupied West Bank," said one advocacy group. "We demand accountability: End U.S. military funding to Israel now.
The massive raid drew alarm from human rights groups and the United Nations. Lynn Hastings, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator in Palestine,early Monday that she was "alarmed by the scale of Israeli forces' operation in Jenin." "Airstrikes were used in the densely populated refugee camp. Several dead and critically wounded. Access to all injured must be ensured," Hastings added.
The advocacy organization Jewish Voice for Peace said in response to the Jenin raid that "this is how the Israeli government treats Gaza—and now Netanyahu brought it to the occupied West Bank."The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the number of Palestinians wounded in the Israeli raid is "on the rise" and demanded a "safe passage to evacuate the wounded and injured.
Monday's raid came just two weeks after Israeli forces killed several Palestinians, including two 15-year-old children, in an
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