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5/17/2025–|Last update: 22:00 (Mecca time)
Today, the Israeli occupation forces continued the campaign of raids and arrests during their siege for the fourth day in a row, Kafr El -Deek and Boqin, in Salfit Governorate, northwest of the occupied West Bank.
In Kafr El -Deek, the occupation continued to block the town and impose a roaming ban, as well as carried out raids for homes, and some of them were carried out for military barracks and centers for investigation and detention, which included a number of residents of the town, including liberated prisoners.
The occupation forces also stormed the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit, amid gunfire throughout the town. Sources told the island that the occupation soldiers detained a number of Palestinians, and began accurate searches inside the homes of citizens, during which field investigations were included.
Israeli media reported that the occupation forces had killed a Palestinian, claiming that he fled while investigating him on charges of shooting that resulted in the killing of the Israeli settlement a few days ago.
Siege and arrests
Palestinian sources said that the occupation forces arrested at least 4 Palestinians from the town of Burqin, which has a population of 5,000.
The mayor of Bruqin said, the benefit of Sabra, to the Anatolia Agency, that the occupation forces raided the municipality’s headquarters and shattered its contents, including computers, offices, etc., pointing to hearing the sounds of bullets, from time to time, without a careful knowledge of what is going on.
Urgent The occupation pays additional reinforcements for its forces in the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit. pic.twitter.com/sm6n2ozb5w
Quds News Network (@qudsn) May 17, 2025
The occupation forces impose a stressful siege on Salfit Governorate and the two countries of Burqin and Kafr El -Deek, under the pretext of searching for the perpetrator of the shooting that took place last Wednesday, and led to the killing of a settlement and the wounding of others.
The occupation forces in the two towns carried out raids and inspection of homes, and they achieved a field with dozens of Palestinians, amid a curfew, and the closure of the entrances to them.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Dura, in the Hebron Governorate and carried out arrests. Pictures broadcast by local Palestinian platforms showed the detention of young men and their taking into military vehicles inside the city’s residential neighborhoods.
Parallel to the genocide war in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and the settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, which led to the death of at least 967 Palestinians, the injury of about 7,000, and the arrest of more than 17 thousand, according to Palestinian data.
Israel has committed absolute American support since October 7, 2023 genocide in Gaza, which left about 173,000 Palestinians between a martyr and a wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.