On Sunday morning, a number of Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, accompanied by the Israeli occupation police, according to scenes broadcast on local platforms.
This comes as dozens of young Palestinians suffered from suffocation as a result of confrontations with the occupation forces during their storming of the “town of Tuqu”, east of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, amid heavy firing of live bullets, stun grenades, and poisonous tear gas.
The occupation forces withdrew to the entrance to the town, where they were stationed amid tight security measures.
The occupation army also stormed Ain Sultan camp in the city of Jericho, east of the West Bank, and the city of Nablus, in the north.
On the other hand, settlers stormed the old Bab al-Baladiya area in the Old City in the center of Hebron, south of the West Bank.
The settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, roamed the alleys, streets and neighborhoods of the old town, provocatively to the residents of the area and obstructing their movements.
They also stormed sheep pens in the Ras al-Auja Bedouin community, north of Jericho.
The director of the Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, Hassan Malihat, said in a press statement that the settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, raided the Ras Al-Auja community, which includes about a thousand Bedouins, and broke into their homes and a number of sheep pens under the pretext of searching for stolen sheep.
Funeral
On the other hand, hundreds of Palestinians mourned the body of the child martyr, Muhammad Hoshiya, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the city of Ramallah last week.
The funeral procession started from Al-Amari Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah, and they chanted slogans denouncing the occupation’s murder of the child Houshieh.
The martyr’s body was transported to his hometown in the town of Qatana, northwest of Jerusalem, in preparation for his burial in the town’s cemetery.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health had previously announced the death of 12-year-old Hoshiya as a result of being shot by the occupation forces.
Incursions and raids
It is noteworthy that since the seventh of last October, the Israeli occupation army has escalated the pace of its daily incursions and raids into the cities and towns of the West Bank to arrest those it describes as “wanted,” and it usually attacks Palestinians and destroys public and private property.
These incursions and raids left about 550 Palestinian martyrs, including 132 children, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.