Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces continued their raids into areas and towns in the West Bank, while the Prisoners’ Affairs Commissions reported an increase in the number of Palestinians detained in the West Bank since October 7 to about 5,730.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the occupation forces launched – from yesterday evening until this morning – raids, field investigations, and widespread arrests, affecting at least 40 citizens from the West Bank, including former prisoners, pointing out that these raids were concentrated in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Nablus, Hebron, and Jenin. And occupied Jerusalem.
Today, an Israeli army force stormed the Aqabat Jabr camp near the city of Jericho in the West Bank, besieged a residential neighborhood and pushed military reinforcements to the camp’s vicinity, according to eyewitnesses.
#a witness| The occupation forces continue to storm Aqabat Jabr camp pic.twitter.com/ISHAYrHjgy
– Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) January 8, 2024
In Azzun, east of the city of Qalqilya, the occupation forces began search operations that targeted several Palestinian homes, in addition to bombing a warehouse in the town owned by a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prisons.
Palestinian platforms reported that the occupation stormed several areas, including the Dheisheh Camp in Bethlehem, the Shuafat Camp, and neighborhoods in the town of Silwan in Jerusalem, Qalqilya, and areas in Ramallah and Nablus. These platforms documented scenes of arrests of Palestinians in some of these raids.
Israeli occupation forces arrest a young Palestinian man during their storming of the town of Husan in the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank.#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/DCtkueoVFt
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 8, 2024
Yesterday, 6 Palestinian young men – including 4 brothers – were martyred in the bombing of an Israeli march at the entrance to Jenin, as the occupation forces stormed the city and clashes broke out between them and Palestinian resistance fighters.
As of yesterday evening, the number of arrests in the occupied West Bank since October 7 had risen to about 5,730, and the toll includes those who were arrested from homes, across military checkpoints, and in Israeli confrontations and incursions.
Since the outbreak of its aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has intensified its military operations in the occupied West Bank, and increased the pace of incursions, raids, and arrests.
Source : Tel Aviv Tribune + Anatolia + social media sites
