West Bank (UNA/WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces continued their violations in various areas of the West Bank on Tuesday morning, including demolitions, bulldozing, and arrests in several areas.
In detail, the occupation forces carried out demolition and bulldozing operations in the town of Anata, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that an Israeli army force, accompanied by several bulldozers and other equipment, stormed the Al-Buhaira neighborhood in the town of Anata, demolishing residential buildings and walls, uprooting trees and lands, and cutting off electricity lines in the area.
She explained that the demolitions included two temporary rooms provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as aid to shelter the owners of homes previously destroyed by the occupation forces.
Israeli bulldozers demolished the memorial to martyrs Imad and Adel Awadallah in the city of Al-Bireh, amid a heavy deployment of Israeli forces around the site.
The occupation forces bulldozed several dunams of citizens' land in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.
Marwan Sabah, head of the Im Safa village council, told WAFA that Israeli bulldozers razed about three dunams of land in the Jabal al-Ras area, located east of the village.
He pointed out that the occupation forces uprooted dozens of fruit trees and filled in a water well belonging to Khaled Allan in the aforementioned area.
Sabah pointed out that the occupation has been preventing Allan from reaching his home in the Jabal al-Ras area for about two months, despite the fact that it is located near the colonial outpost established by settlers in the middle of last year.
The village of Umm Safa, like other villages northwest of Ramallah, is witnessing ongoing attacks by the occupation and settlers, targeting both land and residents.
It is noteworthy that the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission monitored the implementation of 73 demolition operations by the occupation authorities during last April, affecting 152 facilities, including 96 inhabited homes, 10 uninhabited homes, 34 agricultural facilities, and others. These operations were concentrated in the Tubas governorate with 59 facilities, the Hebron governorate with the demolition of 39 facilities, and the Jerusalem governorate with the demolition of 17 facilities.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Dura, south of Hebron, prompting the Southern Education Directorate to postpone the school day.
Yasser Saleh, the director of education in southern Hebron, said that the education directorate had postponed the start of the school day until the occupation forces withdrew from the area, to protect the lives of students.
Saleh pointed out that the occupation forces deliberately and continuously raid Dura as students head to or from school. Fourteen martyrs have been killed in Dura, most of them school students, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 14, 2023.
Israeli occupation forces arrested six citizens after storming the town of Idhna, west of Hebron.
Local sources said that the occupation forces raided a number of neighborhoods in the town of Idhna and arrested: Moataz Atef Awad, Muhammad Amjad Atmezi, Adam Khaled Awad, Adam Nihad Al-Batran, Mahmoud Ziad Al-Hattawi, and Youssef Awad.
The occupation forces also arrested a citizen from the town of Beita, south of Nablus, and subjected dozens to field investigations.
Security and local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the town at dawn today, raided and searched a large number of homes, detained a number of citizens, conducted field investigations with them, and arrested Abdullah Abdul Ghaffar Ghazi Adili.
Israeli occupation forces arrested three young men during raids on Al-Amari refugee camp, the town of Beitunia, and several neighborhoods in the city of Al-Bireh, in addition to towns and villages in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate.
Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Nour Muhammad Rayhan and Ahmad Shahit, after raiding their homes in the Amari refugee camp. They also arrested the young man, Muhammad Issam Al-Qaisi, after raiding his home in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah.
The occupation forces also raided the Umm al-Sharait, Sateh Marhaba, and al-Balou neighborhoods in the city of al-Bireh, in addition to storming the village of Deir Qadis and the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah.
The occupation forces also arrested three citizens from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. Media activist Muhammad Awad said that the occupation forces raided a number of homes in the town and arrested the freed prisoner Mahmoud Badr Mahmoud Khalil, 40 years old, and the brothers Hamidan (30 years old) and Muhammad (21 years old) Ahmed Naim Abu Maria, and seized their vehicle.
Israeli occupation forces surrounded a house in the Askar al-Jadid refugee camp, east of Nablus, and launched surveillance drones over the camp before arresting three citizens: Suhaib Abu Kishk, Abdul al-Shinawi, and Muhannad Qamhiyya.
The occupation forces stormed the city of Bethlehem and took up positions in a number of its neighborhoods and streets.
A WAFA correspondent reported that a large force of the occupation army stormed the city and deployed in several areas, including: Al-Fawaghra neighborhood, the cinema area, Al-Madbasa, the gold market, Wadi Maali, and Manger Square.
In the same context, settlers destroyed surveillance cameras and internet equipment in the Nab' Ghazal al-Farisiya community, located in the northern Jordan Valley. These cameras were used by residents to document and monitor the daily attacks they face in the area.
The Al-Farisiya community witnesses almost daily raids by armed settlers, who raid residents' tents and repeatedly attempt to steal their livestock, under the protection of the occupation forces.
In Jerusalem, the occupation police stormed the perimeter of a school affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the town of Silwan, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources reported that an Israeli police force was stationed near the UNRWA-run Jerusalem Girls' School to prevent a sit-in planned by the students' families to protest the Israeli authorities' decision to close the agency's schools.
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