A Palestinian was injured by Israeli army gunfire on Tuesday in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, while the occupation forces stormed the town of Nahalin, southwest of Bethlehem, in the south of the West Bank, and the town of Birzeit and the Al-Masayef neighborhood in Ramallah, and arrested dozens of young men during.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that Israel arrested 8 Palestinians during a raid and search campaign carried out in the towns of Surif, Bani Naim, Yatta, and Al-Fawwar camp in Hebron, while it also seized the vehicles of other Palestinians.
It was reported that the Israeli army surrounded a mosque in the Al-Masayef neighborhood of Ramallah and prevented worshipers from leaving it. The agency added that the occupation army arrested 3 young men from the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, after raiding and searching their homes.
She continued that dozens of Israeli vehicles stormed the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, south of the city of Nablus, while the occupation army searched more than 50 homes and arrested dozens.
Activists also documented the occupation forces storming the Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and the Israeli sniper teams ascending to the roofs of citizens’ homes.
Occupation snipers are on the roofs of houses in the Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/hCVpRAySzE
– Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 19, 2023
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the new Israeli incursions included the governorates of Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem, and occupied Jerusalem.
He also said that the occupation forces blew up the family home of prisoner Osama Bani Fadl in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Bani Fadl was the perpetrator of the Hawara operation, which led to the killing of two settlers last August.
The reporter added that confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and the Israeli occupation forces during their storming of the town of Aqraba.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that 14 Palestinians suffered from suffocation during the confrontations in Aqraba, while activists reported that the occupation forces carried out a massive arrest campaign in the town and conducted field investigations with the detainees.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced yesterday that the total number of arrests by the Israeli army in the West Bank reached 4,575 detainees.
“Aggression that crossed borders”
For its part, Doctors Without Borders described the humanitarian situation in the West Bank, especially in the city of Jenin, as exceeding limits, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against citizens.
The organization’s coordinator in Jenin, Luz Saavedra, said that Israeli forces surrounded many hospitals in Jenin, causing direct obstruction of health care, and even killed a child who was in the hospital when they shot him.