WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a campaign of raids and arrests that targeted several towns and villages in the West Bank on Sunday. A Palestinian youth was injured by IOF gunfire while settlers carried out attacks on Palestinian towns and gatherings.
The occupation army stormed the city of Nablus and the Balata refugee camp, as well as the surrounding area of Askar refugee camp, while resistance fighters fired at the occupation forces in the old city of Nablus.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced that its teams transported a young man who was shot with live ammunition near the separation wall in the town of Beit Oula west of Al-Khalil, describing his injury as moderate. Local sources reported that the IOF stationed at the separation wall and west of the town fired at Palestinians, injuring the young man in his foot.
The occupation army also raided the town of Beit Ummar north of Al-Khalil and conducted military patrols in its streets. According to the same sources, the occupation forces stormed the town of Khadr in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, firing sound bombs and tear gas at homes and shops, with no injuries reported.
Northwest of Ramallah, an Israeli force invaded the village of Ibwien, damaging citizens’ vehicles and raiding several homes, but no arrests were recorded. However, they arrested six Palestinians from the towns of Broqin and Kafr Deek in the Salfit governorate in the northern West Bank.
For their part, local sources stated that IOF soldiers stormed the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the West Bank.
Other sources reported that resistance fighters targeted the occupation forces with an explosive device while they were stationed inside a building near the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
In addition to the IOF incursions, Broqin in western Salfit witnessed an attack by dozens of settlers who assaulted the homes and vehicles of Palestinians, causing significant material damage and instilling fear among residents, under the protection of the occupation army, which fired live bullets at the Palestinians.
In another attack, settlers targeted residential tents in the town of Al-Nasariya in the central Jordan Valley, damaging the tires of a tractor. They also invaded the Khallet Makhol gathering in the northern Jordan Valley, threatening and terrorizing its residents, according to the Palestinian WAFA news agency.
The occupation army and its settlers have escalated their assaults in the West Bank, including eastern Jerusalem, since the start of the genocide against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 927 Palestinians, injuring about 7,000 others, and the arrest of 14,500 more, according to official Palestinian data.
