1/2/2025–|Last updated: 1/2/202501:10 PM (Mecca time)
The Israeli occupation forces carried out incursions into the West Bank, coinciding with settlers storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and performing Talmudic prayers there.
The occupation forces’ incursions included the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem and the Suwaih neighborhood in the town of Silwan. They also closed the roads leading to towns west of Ramallah, allegedly carrying out a ramming attack near the monastery of a saint west of the city.
The occupation bulldozer also destroyed residents’ property during the storming of the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported earlier that occupation vehicles, accompanied by two bulldozers, stormed the town of Balaa, east of Tulkarm, and roamed its main streets, before heading towards the western neighbourhood.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its crews in Qalqilya dealt with the injury of a 14-year-old child, and local sources reported that the child was injured by occupation fire. Near the separation wall in the town of Jayyus.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces handed Palestinian families in Khirbet Tana, east of Nablus, deportation orders from their homes.
Late yesterday, Wednesday, 3 Palestinians were injured by occupation bullets during their storming of the Old City of Nablus.
In Jenin, confrontations broke out with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Zabuba, west of the city. Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the village, amidst gunfire, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, but no injuries were reported.
Settlers incursions
On the other hand, dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, including extremist Rabbi Yisrael Shalita, and performed Talmudic rituals in its courtyards.
#a witness | Rabbi Yisrael Shalita leads public prayers and invocations following the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning pic.twitter.com/U4bKAQi2mO
– Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) January 2, 2025
In Salfit, local sources reported that dozens of settlers stormed the town of Kafl Haris to perform “Talmudic” rituals at Islamic shrines, and attacked citizens’ homes and vehicles.
The occupation forces had stormed Kifl Haris earlier, before closing the iron gate at its entrance, forcing shop owners to close them, and preventing citizens from moving around, with the aim of securing the settlers’ incursion into the town.
In parallel with the genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the martyrdom of 835 Palestinians and the injury of about 6,700 others, according to official Palestinian data.
With American support, the occupation forces have committed – since October 7, 2023 – genocide in Gaza that left about 154,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst… Humanitarian disasters in the world.