6/16/2024–|Last updated: 6/16/202408:16 AM (Mecca time)
Local media said that the Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinians in Jerusalem and prevented them from performing prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, at a time when the occupation army continued its daily night raids on various towns and cities in the West Bank.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque as the Palestinians prepared to perform Eid prayers, and imposed restrictions and restrictions on all gates of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, preventing worshipers from entering to perform the dawn and Eid al-Adha prayers.
The forces also attacked a number of Palestinians at Damascus Gate, wounding some of them. They also attacked worshipers by beating them at Bab al-Silsilah, one of the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque, before Eid al-Adha prayers.
The number of people who were able to perform Eid al-Adha prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque was limited to 40,000 people, according to the Islamic Endowments Department.
Martyrdom of a child
In the West Bank, a Palestinian child was martyred and two others were injured by bullets from the occupation army during the storming of the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
Confrontations also broke out between the young men and the occupation forces storming the town, during which the occupation army opened fire directly at the young men before the forces withdrew towards the Beit Furik checkpoint west of the town.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) quoted a brief statement from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, saying, “The child Sultan Abdul Rahman Khatahtbeh (15 years old) was martyred as a result of being hit by occupation bullets in Beit Furik.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society had announced that its crews in Nablus dealt with 3 injuries with live bullets in Beit Furik, one of which was in the chest and was described as very serious, while a 45-year-old citizen was injured by live bullets in the thigh, and a 16-year-old child was injured by live bullets in the foot, and they were transported. To the hospital.
The association indicated that it had performed a “cardiopulmonary resuscitation operation for the injured person,” and announced in a later statement that he would be examined at Rafidiya Hospital.
The association added that the occupation forces also attacked the driver of the Beit Furik municipal ambulance and smashed the vehicle’s windows while he was trying to reach an injured person in the town.
Later on Saturday, Palestinians in Nablus carried the body of the child Khatatba to his final resting place in the town of Beit Furik.
The funeral of a martyr who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation in Beit Furik in the West Bank#video pic.twitter.com/DIrQm1qj7H
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) June 15, 2024
In addition to the town of Furik, the occupation forces also stormed the towns of Jayyus and Habla, east of the city of Qalqilya, and raided a number of homes. They also stormed the town of Kafr Nimah, west of Ramallah.
In conjunction with the devastating war on the Gaza Strip, settlers escalated their attacks, while the Israeli army expanded its operations in the West Bank, leaving 547 martyrs and about 5,200 wounded, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, in addition to the arrest of approximately 9,185 Palestinians since October 7.
While the Israeli war on Gaza left more than 122,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children and the elderly.
Israel continues its war on Gaza despite two UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice to end the invasion of Rafah, and to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.