The Israeli occupation army arrested a Palestinian with a disability, east of the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, on the pretext that he was distributing sweets in joy at a shooting attack that targeted Israelis in the northern West Bank, resulting in the killing and wounding of 11 Israelis two days ago.
The official Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, said that Israeli forces stormed the town of Beit Furik and arrested the young man Munther Fahmi Khatatbeh, with a disability, after raiding and searching his house.
She added that the young man, Khatatba, works at a sweets stand in the center of the town of Beit Furik, and was subjected to an incitement campaign by Israeli pages on social media – the day before yesterday, Monday – claiming that he was distributing sweets in joy at the shooting that took place in the village of Al-Funduq, east of Qalqilya.
According to Lofa, confrontations broke out in the town, during which the occupation army fired live bullets and tear gas bombs as part of a campaign to arrest the young man, Khatahtbeh.
The Israeli occupation army did not issue any official comment on the reason for arresting the candy seller.
On Monday, 3 Israelis were killed and 8 others were injured in a shooting attack near the Kedumim settlement in the northern West Bank, as a result of which Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for genocide and ethnic cleansing in Jenin and Nablus and a transition from the stage of “defense to attack.”
In parallel with the genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which resulted in a total of 843 Palestinians being martyred and about 6,700 injured, according to official Palestinian data.
While the Israeli genocide in Gaza left more than 155,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
