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SvennoJ on 12 May 2024
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Arrests, water cannon as Israeli protest blocks highway

Israeli police arrested three people as protesters blocked Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway on Saturday night, the Times of Israel reported.

Family members of Israeli captives held in Gaza have held regular protests in Tel Aviv for months, calling on Netanyahu’s government to do more to bring them home. A group opposed to Netanyahu’s government and its war on Gaza have also held their own protests, with the two protest groups joining to block the highway on Saturday night.




Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian home in West Bank

Al Jazeera Arabic has obtained footage showing the aftermath of an arson attack carried out by Israeli settlers in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank. The footage showed Palestinians trying to put the fire out with buckets of water as flames from the blaze turned the night sky orange.

Translation: Settlers set fire to a house in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

 

Israeli forces arrest 13 Palestinians in West Bank raids

Israeli forces have arrested 13 Palestinians in pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

The arrests included:

  • Two young men from Habla, south of Qalqilya
  • Six Palestinians from the town of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem
  • Three young men from the town of Arrabeh, southwest of Jenin.
  • Two Palestinians from the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah

Wafa said Israeli forces “severely beat” at least one of the men arrested in Arrabeh and deployed snipers on the roofs of buildings.

Israeli raids in the West Bank have intensified since the war on Gaza started on October 7. More than 8,600 Palestinians have been arrested over the past seven months.