Clashes, tear gas as Israeli forces raid Nablus
Clashes have broken out between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the Beit Furik neighbourhood of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. A video posted on Telegram, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed Israeli soldiers storming the town and young Palestinian men throwing stones at their vehicles. The military responded by firing tear gas.
Translation: Confrontations broke out against the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the West Bank.
Israeli forces carry out arrests in Hebron, Nablus
The Israeli forces have conducted new raids and made arrests in the cities of Hebron and Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The latest Israeli incursion comes a day after it killed five people near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Israel has killed nearly 500 Palestinians since October 7, when it launched a brutal military offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Security sources, quoted by the agency, said troops detained a citizen in the Sheikh neighbourhood in central Hebron, after storming and searching his house. Soldiers also raided the towns of Beit Ummar and Surif as well as the Arroub refugee camp in the north of Hebron.
In Nablus, an elderly man, who had been detained last week before being released, has been taken into custody again from his house on at-Taawon Street, local sources told Wafa. In the Rafidia neighbourhood of the city, the Israeli forces raided a residential building and gunfire was heard, but no injuries were reported.
Wafa said that several villages around the city were also raided with no arrests reported.
Israeli carries out more arrests in the occupied West Bank
We are receiving new reports of raids and arrests in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli forces have arrested two more Palestinians in the cities of Ramallah and el-Bireh, according to the Wafa news agency. They also severely beat a young man in the Old City of the occupied Jerusalem, the agency said.
Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report
The detainees included children and former prisoners, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. The detentions took place in Tulkarem, Qalqiliya, Jericho, Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron and Jenin and the occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday and Sunday.
“This brings the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces since October 7 to 8,575,” the organisations said.
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