The Israeli occupation forces stormed villages and towns in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian property and burned agricultural lands, and others raised the Israeli occupation flag during their storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed – Tuesday morning – the city of Nablus in the West Bank, raided several homes and arrested a young Palestinian man after raiding his house in the city located in the northern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses explained that the occupation forces, reinforced with a number of military vehicles, raided Amman Street, east of Nablus, and stormed several homes, searched them, and abused the residents. She arrested one of the young men before withdrawing from him.
Palestinian media reported that clashes with the Israeli occupation forces broke out in the eastern region of the city of Nablus in the West Bank during their storming of the city.
◾ Press coverage: “The occupation forces withdraw from the Old City of Nablus.” pic.twitter.com/4YJzzHKhOE
– Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) May 14, 2024
Video clips broadcast by Palestinian websites also showed the occupation forces withdrawing from the Old City of Nablus after storming them for several hours.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, stormed the archaeological site of Tel Ma’in, east of Yatta, south of Hebron.
The Palestinian Quds News Network quoted local Palestinian sources as saying that a group of settlers attacked two young Palestinians near the town of Duma, southeast of Nablus.
Palestinian news sites also reported that the occupation forces stormed the towns of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah, and Bani Naim, east of Hebron, this morning.
Desecration of Al-Aqsa and destruction of aid
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that settlers raised the Israeli flag during their storming – Tuesday morning – of Al-Aqsa Mosque Square in occupied Jerusalem.
Video clips showed a group of settlers raising the Israeli flag in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.
In commemoration of what is called “Independence Day”…settlers raise the flag of occupation..Lal after they stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque pic.twitter.com/JNbqHtCRuS
– Al-Qastal News (@AlQastalps) May 14, 2024
Also in the West Bank, settlers set fire to large quantities of humanitarian aid that was on its way through the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.
The attack occurred in the town of Beit Awa, west of the city of Dura, south of Hebron.
Settlers stopped the trucks loaded with goods yesterday afternoon, Monday, unloaded their cargo and destroyed part of the goods. They returned in the evening and set fire to what was left of them.
Settlers also obstructed the passage of an aid shipment to Gaza through the Tarqumiya crossing, west of the city of Hebron.
Yesterday afternoon, a number of Israelis, along with the families of prisoners in Gaza, intercepted an aid convoy loaded with food supplies as it stopped for security checks at the crossing.
The objectors destroyed the contents of the shipment, and confirmed their refusal to allow any aid to be transferred to the residents of Gaza in light of the continued detention of Israeli prisoners in the Strip.
It is noteworthy that the occupation, in parallel with its war on Gaza since the seventh of last October, has escalated its operations in the West Bank, leaving 498 martyrs and about 5,000 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The number of detainees in the occupied West Bank has risen to 8,710 Palestinians since October 7, according to new figures issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
