12/18/2023–|Last updated: 12/18/202304:41 AM (Mecca time)
Palestinians were injured – early Monday – by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets during raids carried out in several areas in the West Bank, which included clashes with resistance fighters.
The new Israeli incursions included Nablus, Qalqilya, Jericho, Bethlehem, and Hebron.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that Israeli forces stormed the city of Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank, from several directions.
He added that resistance fighters targeted the occupation vehicles storming Nablus with live bullets on Palestine Street and the Martyrs’ Roundabout. The armed clashes were described as violent, during which one of the young men was injured by bullets.
Violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces in the city of Nablus in the West Bank#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/MRIqnIRlJV
– Tel Aviv Tribune Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) December 18, 2023
Activists also reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
Also in the northern West Bank, the Israeli army stormed the towns of Jayus, Azoun, Baqa al-Hatab and Habla near the city of Qalqilya. Confrontations broke out in these towns between Palestinian youth and the occupation forces, which included raids on citizens’ homes and the arrest of a number of young men, while the Palestinian Red Crescent said that a young man was wounded by occupation bullets in Baqa. Firewood.
In the city of Tulkarm, the occupation forces stormed the Shweika suburb and arrested a student.
In the same context, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that two Palestinians were injured during the occupation forces’ storming of the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, adding that the town of Dura (south) was stormed.
The reporter also reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Dheisheh and Aida camps in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Early today, the raids included the city of Jericho, east of the West Bank, where the occupation forces arrested a girl, and the town of Abwein, northwest of Ramallah, was raided.
Continuous escalation
The new incursions into a number of cities, towns and camps come within the framework of a large-scale Israeli escalation in the West Bank since the resistance launched the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle on October 7th.
These operations also come hours after the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, following a storming that resulted in the death of 5 Palestinians, some of whom were targeted by drones.
Thus, the number of martyrs in the occupied West Bank rose to 9 martyrs in less than 24 hours, to 297 martyrs since October 7, and 505 martyrs, including 111 children, since the beginning of this year.
For their part, the national and Islamic forces in Tulkarm announced a comprehensive strike in all aspects of life in the governorate yesterday to mourn the martyrs.
In Rantis (west of Ramallah), an Israeli soldier was injured in a stabbing incident yesterday, and the occupation army later announced the arrest of the perpetrator of the attack and a number of his family members in the village.
As part of the ongoing Israeli escalation in the West Bank, the occupation forces arrested more than 4,000 Palestinians during the past two months.