The Israeli military announced that it had begun a large military offensive against Nablus, especially the Baratha refugee camp.

At least 14 Palestinians have been injured by gunfire from Israeli Army since Wednesday morning and dozens have been injured by suffocation from tear gas.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a statement that the medical team at Nablus Lafidia Government Hospital has been treating “14 shooting injuries caused by the occupation, including seven in critical and moderate conditions.”

The ministry’s statement comes after the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that its team had transferred six people with gun wounds to hospitals and provided on-site treatment for 50 suffocation and five assaults.

Four of them were aged 15 to 16, two victims, two with live ammunition wounds injured in the lower back and feet, and two others were injured in rubber bullets on their hands and feet, the statement said.

Earlier, the Palestinian Red Crescent said its staff was transported from the camp to the hospital by a 14-year-old boy because he was hit in the face by a tear gas tank.

Witnesses told reporters that at dawn, a large Israeli unit, soldiers and armored vehicles rushed into the camp, searching the houses and turning some into military posts.

They added that the soldiers forced the family to flee their homes and leave the coercion under the camp.

Since January, Israeli troops have been on the northern coast of the western north, killing dozens of Palestinians and displaced.

Tensions in the West Bank are high, with at least 947 Palestinians killed and more than 7,000 injured since October 2023, according to Palestinian figures.

The International Court of Justice announced in July last year that Israel’s decades of occupation of Palestinian land was illegal, demanding the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.