Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation carried out a campaign of incursions and attacks in various cities and towns of the West Bank, in conjunction with enabling settlers to desecrate the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that an Israeli special unit traveling in a vehicle bearing a Palestinian license plate infiltrated “Izbat al-Tayyah” east of Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, and arrested a young man and conducted a field investigation with him. The occupation sent military reinforcements to the site from Checkpoint 104, west of the city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the occupation forces prevented its crews from reaching the besieged place after receiving reports of injuries.
In the same context, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank.
The occupation forces sent large military reinforcements to the town and began a massive search and raid campaign, arresting dozens of Palestinians before releasing a large portion of them later.
The occupation forces confiscated a number of vehicles, closed all entrances leading to the town, and closed internal roads with dirt barriers.
During the raid, the occupation forces threw leaflets at citizens, which included threatening messages and a threat to pursue anyone who supports terrorism, according to what the occupation forces described.
The occupation forces also bulldozed dozens of dunams in the western area of the town of Beit Ula, west of Hebron.
The occupation forces prevent citizens from reclaiming their lands in the area near the apartheid wall, and prevent them from building under the pretext that the area is under Israeli control.
The resistance confronts in Jenin
In Jenin, the occupation army stormed the city and its camp and clashed with Palestinian resistance fighters.
Al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Brigade said that its fighters confronted the occupation forces during their storming of the city of Jenin and its camp with heavy bullets and explosive devices.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces bulldozed and vandalized the streets of Jenin camp, demolished the walls of a house, and burned a citizen’s vehicle. In turn, Palestinian Civil Defense teams rushed to extinguish the fire.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that armed clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces after they stormed the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, to carry out a raid on homes, searching for those they described as wanted.
According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town and conducted patrols there, while closing its entrances and deploying snipers on the roofs of buildings. It also conducted field investigations with citizens.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank from several directions.
The occupation deployed its military vehicles in a number of neighborhoods in the city, while infantry soldiers were deployed at the Martyrs’ Roundabout in central Nablus. They also raided a commercial store and tampered with its contents.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the occupation forces have arrested at least 15 Palestinians since yesterday, Tuesday.
The arrests were distributed among the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Qalqilya, and Jericho.
Settlers in Al-Aqsa courtyards
As for occupied Jerusalem, the Islamic Endowments Department in occupied Jerusalem announced the closure of the Mughrabi Gate after 1,184 settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on the so-called “Jerusalem Unification Day,” amid tight security guard from the occupation forces.
Settlers raised Israeli flags at the Qattanin Gate in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The so-called “Temple Organizations” called for the largest storming of Al-Aqsa today. The Israeli police announced the mobilization of about 3,000 of its forces to protect the flag parade passing through the Old City of occupied Jerusalem to commemorate the 57th anniversary of its occupation.
Haaretz newspaper reported that a group of Jewish youths were carrying out acts of vandalism in the Old City of Jerusalem, directing insults and threats to Palestinians and journalists there.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) warned the Israeli occupation against continuing its criminal policies towards Al-Aqsa Mosque, and said that the “flag march” in occupied Jerusalem is an aggression against the Palestinian people and their sanctities.
She added that allowing settlers to organize the so-called flag march in the streets of occupied Jerusalem, and the attacks and violations that accompany it, confirms the occupation’s efforts to Judaize the holy sites, and that it is an aggression against the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world.
The movement said that the resistance would find a way to harm Israel in a way that would ensure the restraint of its extremist settler leaders.
The movement called on the Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the occupied interior to mobilize and confront the occupation’s plans towards Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to make today, Wednesday, a day of anger and support for Al-Aqsa.
Hamas also called on the Arab and Islamic nations and the free people of the world to escalate the mass movement pressuring the occupation and its supporters.