Today, Thursday, the occupation forces raided several Palestinian cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, while settlers, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, stormed north of Salfit.
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Balaa, east of Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that the occupation vehicles, accompanied by two bulldozers, stormed the town and roamed its main streets, before heading towards the western neighbourhood.
The occupation forces stormed the neighboring town of Anabta, bulldozing and vandalizing citizens’ property.
In Jenin, confrontations broke out with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Zabuba, west of the city. Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the village, amidst gunfire, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, but no injuries were reported.
In Nablus, 3 Palestinians were injured late Wednesday by occupation bullets during their storming of the Old City in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a young man was injured by a bullet in the back, and his condition was described as serious, in addition to two injuries, in moderate condition, with live bullets in the leg and thigh.
For its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades/Vanguards of Liberation – Nablus announced that its members targeted Israeli army forces “with a heavy barrage of bullets and were engaged in violent clashes with them.”
Settlers incursions
In Salfit, local sources reported that dozens of settlers stormed the town of Kafl Haris to perform “Talmudic” rituals at Islamic shrines, and attacked citizens’ homes and vehicles.
The occupation forces had stormed Kifl Haris earlier, before closing the iron gate at its entrance, forcing shop owners to close them, and preventing citizens from moving around, with the aim of securing the settlers’ incursion into the town.
The occupation army and its settlers storm the town of Kafl Haris, north of Salfit pic.twitter.com/Su1zGDI3fF
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In the southern West Bank, the occupation forces arrested a child from the city of Hebron on Wednesday evening. Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed a house in the Bab al-Zawiya area and arrested a 16-year-old child after beating him, noting that he was shot in the foot by the occupation forces about a week ago.
In parallel with the genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which resulted in the martyrdom of 835 Palestinians and the injury of about 6,700, according to official Palestinian data.
With American support, the occupation forces have been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving about 154,000 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 disasters. Humanity in the world.
Tel Aviv continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, last November 21, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians.
Source : The island + Palestinian press + Agencies
