The Israeli occupation forces stormed – at dawn on Sunday – several cities and towns of the occupied West Bank, amidst the firing of live bullets and gas bombs, which led to clashes with Palestinians and some injuries.
The occupation forces stormed the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank and deployed their military vehicles in several neighborhoods. They surrounded a house in the Al-Safiri neighborhood and chased a young man who crossed and demanded that he surrender himself via loudspeakers.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the village of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah, amid gunfire and sound bombs, and clashes erupted between those forces and the youth of the village.
Local Palestinian sources reported that the raid was the third in 24 hours on the village, and the occupation forces later withdrew without recording any injuries or arrests in the village.
Palestinian youths targeted what is known as the “Sixty” line adjacent to the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, in the south of the West Bank, with Molotov cocktails. The occupation forces responded by firing sound and gas bombs in the Al-Shurfa area of the village after they stormed it and conducted their patrols there.
The occupation forces raided the city of Nablus and stormed a number of neighborhoods, shops, and homes. The raids were concentrated on Rafidiya Street, the Al-Maajin area, and other neighborhoods.
Local sources reported that a number of Israeli vehicles raided the city of Nablus amid a flight of reconnaissance planes, where soldiers stormed several homes, shops, and money exchange shops, searched them, and seized some of their contents.
The sources reported that confrontations took place between groups of young men and the occupation forces, during which live and metal bullets, tear gas bombs, and stun grenades were fired, but no injuries were reported.
Suffocation cases
In Hebron, Palestinian sources reported two cases of tear gas suffocation as a result of the occupation forces storming the city of Dura, south of the city.
Dozens of citizens also suffered from suffocation, on Saturday evening, during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces, in the town of Idhna and the village of Tabqa in the town of Dura, in Hebron Governorate.
In a related context, the occupation forces detained a Palestinian family and their children while returning to their home in Jaber neighborhood near the “Kiryat Arba” colony, which was built on citizens’ lands and property east of the city of Hebron, and abused them, before releasing a number of them, while continuing to detain a young man and his sister.
In Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, security sources reported that large forces from the occupation army, reinforced with military vehicles, stormed the city and besieged two houses in the “Al-Qaraan neighborhood” and near the “Interior Ministry” in the city, and demanded through loudspeakers their residents to leave, amid the outbreak of confrontations.
The sources added that separate confrontations broke out between groups of young men and the occupation forces, who fired live, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that confrontations broke out in the town of Idhna and the village of Tabqa after the occupation forces stormed them. The occupation soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades and toxic tear gas towards citizens, causing dozens of citizens to suffer from suffocation due to inhaling toxic gas. They were treated in the field.
A fire also caught fire in citizens’ lands in the village of Tabqa, south of Dura, as a result of the occupation forces firing stun grenades and poisonous gas into the village.
The occupation escalates arrest campaigns and incursions, in addition to settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank, in parallel with the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has left tens of thousands martyred and wounded.