The Israeli occupation forces continued their raids into neighborhoods and areas in the West Bank, raiding homes and launching an arrest campaign that raised the number of prisoners since the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle last October to more than 6,000.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a young Palestinian man was injured by bullets from the occupation forces during their storming of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. The occupation forces conducted their patrols on Rafidiya Street in the center of the city, and confrontations broke out with Palestinian youths, leading to a young man being wounded by a bullet in the foot. The Israeli patrols then headed to the west of the city of Nablus. Before withdrawing from it.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the northern Kharouba neighborhood The city of Jenin, and raided the house of the martyr Raafat Abu Aql and assaulted his family. They also arrested his brother and tampered with the contents of the house before withdrawing.
Occupation forces destroy the contents of the family home of the martyr Raafat Abu Aql during the storming of the Kharouba neighborhood in the Jenin camp in the West Bank.#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/OkL74RNAIP
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 20, 2024
Last night, Israeli occupation army forces entered the Shuafat camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and arrested a Palestinian woman. They conducted foot and motorized patrols and deployed in a number of neighborhoods.
The occupation forces also stormed the town of Al-Khader in Bethlehem and the Al-Azza and Dheisheh camps. The raids also included the city of Bethlehem, where the occupation forces conducted patrols at Manger Square in the center of the city.
The Israeli occupation incursions also extended to the town of Bani Naim, east of the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank, and the towns of Kafr Thulth and Azzun, east of Qalqilya.
Israeli occupation forces storm the Kharouba neighborhood in the city of Jenin, raid a house, and arrest a young man from the city#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/ZxTV3apOrV
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) January 20, 2024
For its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – the military wing of the Palestinian Liberation Movement (Fatah) – said that today, Saturday, it targeted the Israeli military checkpoint in Tubas in the northern West Bank with a barrage of bullets.
Earlier, the Palestinian News Agency quoted medical sources as saying that the boy Tawfiq Ajaq (17 years old) was martyred after being hit in the head by live bullets fired by occupation soldiers in the Uyun Al-Haramiyah area near the town of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Since the resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the West Bank has witnessed daily incursions accompanied by arrest campaigns. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the number of people arrested by the occupation in the West Bank since that date exceeded 6,000.