A Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli occupation forces in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians were also injured and others were arrested during the occupation forces’ raids on various areas of cities and towns in the West Bank.
Eyewitnesses from Qaryut village reported that a group of settlers stormed Qaryut village and attacked citizens’ homes under the protection of occupation soldiers, which led to the outbreak of clashes during which the occupation forces fired live bullets at citizens’ homes, which led to the injury and death of the child Bana Labom.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the 13-year-old girl, Bana, was seriously injured by live bullets to the chest. Her family said that their child was injured while she was in her room at home.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned what it described as an execution crime committed by the occupation forces while protecting the settlers’ attack on the village of Qaryut, which led to the martyrdom of the child Bana.
It considered what happened a living example of the ugliness of the massacres committed by the occupation forces against Palestinian civilians and children, and the Foreign Ministry called on the international community to assume its responsibilities, implement international legitimacy resolutions, and end the Israeli occupation.
Yesterday afternoon, Friday, the occupation forces stormed the village of Burin, south of Nablus, amid heavy gunfire, which led to a number of citizens suffering from suffocation. Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces raided the village and spread out in its streets, arrested a young man, severely beat him, and took him to an unknown area. The army is still present in the village.
In Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces also arrested a Palestinian when they stormed the village of Qusin, west of the city.
Raids and arrests
During the night hours and dawn of Saturday, a Palestinian young man was injured in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, during clashes with the occupation forces when they stormed the town, raided and searched a house, according to Palestinian medical sources. The occupation used tear gas bombs against citizens’ homes in the town and suppressed the Palestinian youth.
An infantry force from the occupation forces stormed the village of Budrus (west of Ramallah), raided and searched a number of homes before withdrawing towards a military point near the separation wall around the village.
The occupation forces also stormed several villages north of Qalqilya and Baqa al-Hatab east of the city, and began searching the area around the home of the perpetrator of the Kedumim attack a few weeks ago.
The occupation forces also stormed the town of Surif in the Hebron Governorate, and positioned themselves in its center, firing live bullets and sound bombs, and raiding a number of shops before withdrawing.
They also stormed the town of As-Samu, south of Hebron, raided citizens’ homes, and arrested two young men at the entrance to Al-Fawar camp, also south of Hebron, after stopping and searching their vehicle, and transferred them to an unknown location.
Settler attacks
Extremist settlers attacked the Khallet Zaiter area at the entrance to the village of Abu Falah, northeast of the city of Ramallah, burned a Palestinian vehicle, and wrote racist slogans on the walls.
Also, extremist settlers – under the protection of the occupation army – raided a Bedouin gathering in the Al-Ma’arjat area, northwest of Ramallah, and imposed a siege on the area and prevented citizens from approaching, according to lawyer Hassan Malihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights.
Malihat added that the settlers surrounded the homes of the Kaabneh family, stormed them and detained the families inside, noting that the settlers wanted to seize the citizens’ livestock and sheep by force.
In the same context, Malihat said that settlers occupied a house and turned it into a new settlement outpost in the Ras Ein Al-Auja Bedouin community, north of the city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley.
Funeral of 11 martyrs in Jenin
The Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the city of Jenin and its camp in the northern West Bank after 10 days of carrying out a violent and continuous military operation that resulted in dozens of martyrs and wounded, and left widespread destruction to the infrastructure.
According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), 21 Palestinians, including children and the elderly, were killed and others were injured, some seriously, in the Israeli aggression on the Jenin Governorate, which was described as bloody and the most violent since 2002.
Yesterday, Friday, the people of Jenin Governorate buried the bodies of 11 Palestinian martyrs killed by the Israeli occupation forces. The funeral procession of the martyrs set off from Jenin Governmental Hospital in a massive popular march towards the Martyrs’ Cemetery and the eastern neighborhood of the city.
Palestinian reports also said the Israeli army had also withdrawn from the city of Tulkarm in the northwestern West Bank, where it had carried out smaller-scale military operations.
For its part, the Israeli army issued a statement reviewing the intensive operations launched by its forces last week in the West Bank, and said that its forces carried out extensive operations in Jenin, Tulkarm, and the Far’a refugee camp, which resulted in the assassination of 35 militants and the arrest of 45 others. It also confiscated dozens of weapons and explosive devices and destroyed weapons manufacturing laboratories, it claimed.
The occupation army did not confirm its withdrawal from the West Bank, but merely said that “Israeli forces are still active in order to achieve the goals of the counter-terrorism operation.”
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the Israeli military operation in the West Bank left 36 martyrs and 150 wounded, and caused extensive damage to infrastructure and homes.
In parallel with its war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, the Israeli army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of 692 Palestinians in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, including 159 children, the injury of about 5,700, and the arrest of more than 10,400, according to official Palestinian institutions.