(UNA/WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces continued to escalate their aggression and violations against the Palestinian people through raids, arrests and abuse of citizens, coinciding with the escalation of settler attacks on citizens’ properties and lands.
و Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread arrest operations in several governorates, targeting a large number of citizens, including five women and two journalists, one of whom is journalist Hazem Nasser, whom the occupation authorities re-arrested only two weeks after his release..
The cases were concentrated in the governorates of Nablus and Hebron, while the remaining cases were distributed among the governorates of Qalqilya, Tulkarm and Bethlehem, in addition to carrying out a field investigation campaign in the Jenin governorate, which affected a number of citizens, before they were later released..
The Nablus governorate witnessed a wide-scale arrest campaign that targeted 18 citizens, including a woman and a young woman, after raiding several neighborhoods of the city at dawn. The occupation forces raided a house in the Al-Gharb neighborhood in the Old City and arrested Mrs. Rabab Samaro from it. They also raided and searched houses in the Al-Ma'ajin neighborhood and arrested the four brothers Ayham, Mu'tasim, Kamal and Mahmoud Al-Asadi..
The raids extended to the villages and towns of Beita, Kafr Qalil, Yatma, and Zeita Jamma’in south of Nablus, and Zawata to the west, where occupation jeeps stormed these areas, raided and searched homes, wreaked havoc, and arrested the young woman Rimas Asaad Dweikat from Beita, Osama Mahmoud Saleh Al-Quni from Kafr Qalil, Fayeq Sanoubar from Yatma, and Muhammad Al-Maari from Zawata.
Nine citizens from Zita Jamma'in were also arrested: Raed Abdel-Ghani Kanaan, Fathi Al-Hayek, Zakaria Jadallah, Hamza Ramadan, Saleh Alawi, Amir Fawaz, Yazid Nasser, and the brothers Bilal Juma Ramadan and Assem Juma Ramadan..
In Tulkarm, the occupation forces arrested five released prisoners, including a journalist, during raids on their homes.
The arrests included released prisoner Sadiq Samih Al-Qarout (62 years old), his son, released prisoner Yahya (27 years old), released prisoner Omar Daoud Jaber (68 years old), and released prisoner Ahmed Mustafa Assas (35 years old), following raids on their homes in the suburb of Iktaba, east of the city..
They also arrested the released prisoner, journalist Hazem Emad Nasser, from his home in the Shweika suburb north of the city, who had been released only two weeks earlier, after spending two years in administrative detention.
In Qalqilya, Israeli occupation forces arrested three young men from inside a cafe in the town of Azzun, east of the governorate, after raiding the Triangle area in the northern part of the city. The three men are Hamza Imran, Mustafa Bilal Imran, and Ahmed Abdullah Imran..
Israeli forces also stormed the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, raiding dozens of homes and vandalizing their contents. Among the homeowners were Ibrahim and Wissam Shteiwi, Alaa and Ahmed Barham, and Mansour Obeid. They also raided shops opposite the Martyrs' Cemetery..
In a related context, the occupation forces obstructed the movement of citizens in the village of Immatin, east of Qalqilya, after setting up a military checkpoint at its entrance, during which they stopped vehicles, searched them, and checked the identities of their passengers..
In Hebron, Israeli occupation forces arrested 16 Palestinian citizens, including Ibrahim al-Ja'ba, Bassam al-Ja'ba and his son Youssef, Mu'ath Alaa al-Ja'ba, Uday al-Ja'ba, Osama Zaid al-Junaidi, Hussein Nidal al-Tamimi, Jaafar Abu Rajab, Muntaser al-Sharif, Alaa Imad Asaid, Jaafar Youssef Iskafi and his brother, in addition to Raneen Majdi al-Ja'ba, Umm Zaid al-Ja'ba (wife of the deported Majed al-Ja'ba), and the wife of Zaid al-Ja'ba (who has been detained by the occupation for two years)..
The occupation forces also arrested citizen Maher Farid Al-Haroush from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron.
Simultaneously with the arrests, the occupation forces erected several military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron city, its towns, villages, and camps, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds. This restricted the movement of citizens and affected their daily lives, amidst the frequent incursions into the governorate, which include arrest campaigns, house raids, and road closures..
In Ramallah, a number of school students suffered from suffocation during an Israeli occupation forces raid on the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of the governorate, and fired tear gas canisters towards a school, resulting in the students' injuries. They also detained one of the teachers and closed the school's entrance..
In Jericho, a Palestinian citizen and a foreign solidarity activist were injured when settlers assaulted them in the village of Deir al-Dik, west of the city. Palestinian Red Crescent teams treated the two injuries and transported them to the hospital..
Concurrently with the arrest campaigns, the occupation forces continued to storm residential areas, raid and search homes, vandalize their contents, and tighten restrictions on the movement of citizens..
In Tulkarm, large forces of the Israeli occupation army stormed the vicinity of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and carried out extensive searches in the area. They also raided the home of the Secretary of the Fatah movement in the Tulkarm camp, prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Shahada, located behind the hospital, searched it, and vandalized its contents. This is the third time the house has been raided since his arrest..
In Qalqilya, Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Siniriya, south of the governorate, and raided and searched a house, without any arrests being reported..
In Bethlehem, a large force of the occupation army, accompanied by a number of bulldozers, stormed the Khirbet al-Deir area in the center of the town of Tuqu', southeast of the governorate..
In Hebron, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ula, west of the city, with several vehicles accompanied by a military bulldozer. They deployed throughout the town, raided a house, and closed roads with earth mounds, though no arrests were reported..
In Jenin, the occupation forces withdrew from the eastern neighborhood of the city, following a raid that lasted about six hours, during which more than 20 citizens, most of them released prisoners, were detained..
Israeli occupation forces raided the home of citizen Muhammad al-Najjar in Khirbet al-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, searched it, and destroyed its contents..
In a separate attack south of Hebron, settlers from the newly established outpost on Palestinian land in Wadi al-Rakhim burned down an agricultural caravan belonging to Murad Nassar, along with its contents of agricultural materials and equipment, in Wadi Ajheish, east of the town of As-Samu..
In the context of escalating settler attacks on citizens and their property, several areas in the West Bank witnessed the seizure of homes and agricultural lands, along with the burning of property and the destruction of crops and facilities..
In the village of Deir al-Dik al-Tahta, west of Jericho, settlers forcibly seized eight houses in various parts of the village, after storming them with their families and breaking down their doors, knowing that they were empty of their owners..
In the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli occupation forces demolished 21 residential and agricultural structures in Khirbet al-Deir, after storming the community accompanied by bulldozers and carrying out the demolition operation..
In Hebron, settlers attacked the Sikka school in the western part of the city, attempting to assault students and teachers after storming the school. Israeli occupation forces fired stun grenades in the surrounding area, but no injuries were reported..
Settlers, under the protection of occupation soldiers, also destroyed a number of olive trees in the town of Surif, northwest of the governorate..
In another attack on agricultural property, settlers burned a vehicle, seized a tractor, and damaged crops and greenhouses during an attack on the Zad al-Sheikh area in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron..
Media activist Mohammed Awad told WAFA that an armed group of settlers attacked residents in the area, burned a vehicle, seized a tractor belonging to Ashraf Alami, destroyed dozens of crates of vegetables and other crops, and damaged the contents of greenhouses belonging to several residents..
The residents of the area are subjected daily to attacks by settlers and occupation forces, including attacks on homes, destruction of property, and bulldozing of land, in addition to assaulting them and threatening their lives..
The attacks extended to Wadi Ajheish, east of the town of As-Samu’, south of Hebron, where settlers from the newly established settlement outpost on citizens’ lands in Wadi Ar-Rakhim burned an agricultural caravan belonging to citizen Murad Nassar, along with its agricultural materials and equipment..
In Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces demolished a house in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, belonging to citizen Suleiman Abu Sbeih in the Al-Bustan neighborhood, with an area of about 80 square meters..
Settlers also attacked Palestinian vehicles near the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, pelting them with stones, resulting in the smashing of windows in at least two vehicles..
In Nablus, settlers targeted Palestinian-owned land in the Masoudiya area, northwest of the city, damaging fences on land belonging to Diab and Abdul Salam Hajja, and stealing bananas from about 250 trees..
Settlers also attacked two houses in the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, and stormed them at the town's entrance, under the protection of occupation soldiers, and began dismantling their contents, including water networks and other equipment..
In Tulkarm, Israeli occupation forces evicted 25 families from their homes in the western area adjacent to the Al-Hadida neighborhood, near the Tulkarm refugee camp, and converted some of the houses into military barracks after raiding them and forcibly evicting the residents, allowing them to take only a few of their belongings..
In Bethlehem, Israeli occupation forces demolished an inhabited house in the town of Tuqu', southeast of the city, after storming the Khirbet al-Deir area in the Subaih neighborhood in the town center, completely sealing it off and preventing movement. They proceeded to demolish a one-story house, measuring 170 square meters, belonging to Ashraf Muhammad Muslim al-Zeer..
Israeli occupation forces also prevented citizens from harvesting olives in the town, and attacked them in the Al-Buqa'a plain area at the western entrance to Tuqu', firing shots at them, though no injuries were reported..
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