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Aid groups alarmed at Jenin access curbs, scale of Israeli attack

Ambulances have been prevented from reaching patients with severe injuries in Jenin [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

Aid agencies have expressed serious concern at the scale of the continuing Israeli attack in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin and the restrictions placed on medical access for seriously wounded people.

“We are alarmed at the scale of air and ground operations that are taking place in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and air strikes hitting a densely populated refugee camp,” Vanessa Huguenin, a spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office, told a briefing on Tuesday.

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