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SvennoJ on 07 June 2024
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Israeli forces conduct raids across occupied West Bank

The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported on numerous raids by Israeli troops and military vehicles on communities, villages, towns and cities across the occupied West Bank following the killing earlier of three young people in Jenin.

A crowd of thousands formed a funeral march for the three Palestinian youths, aged 17 to 24, who were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday.

Areas raided overnight and into early Friday morning, include:

  • The Abu Sneina neighbourhood in Hebron City
  • Israeli snipers took up positions in the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus while a house in the camp was raided and buildings searched on the camp’s outskirts, Wafa reports. Local residents engaged in clashes with the Israeli military to prevent the incursion.
  • A dawn raid was carried out on the towns of Silat, al-Dhahr and al-Fandaqumiya, located to the south of Jenin, where Palestinian homes were searched by troops accompanied by police dogs.
  • Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and deployed a noxious gas during confrontations with local Palestinians, who rallied to resist a raid on Husan village, west of Bethlehem.
  • Troops also stormed the Khallet al-Farra village community south of Hebron, where they searched and ransacked homes before withdrawing.


Israeli settlers cut down olive, citrus trees in Nablus attack

During an assault on the occupied West Bank town of Nablus on Thursday, Israeli settlers cut down olive and citrus trees.

The Times of Israel reported that settlers threw stones at Palestinian residents and tried to burn down a house. Army Radio reported that Israeli forces shot at Palestinians trying to protect themselves, injuring two people.

In addition to the destruction of property and agricultural land, at least 531 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,200 wounded in Israeli army and settler attacks across the West Bank since October 7.


Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural lands east of Ramallah

Israeli settlers have set fire to agricultural lands in the village of Barqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.

Dozens of Israeli settlers who descended from the illegal Atarot settlement participated in a march near the Rawabi roundabout north of Ramallah, waving Israeli flags, Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli forces have set up a military checkpoint near the Rawabi roundabout, preventing Palestinian vehicles from entering or exiting to secure the march, the report said.

Israeli forces seize private Palestinian land in Hebron

The Israeli forces have seized privately owned Palestinian land in Hebron, occupied West Bank, under the pretext of “appropriation orders”, Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

Head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Muayad Shaaban, told Wafa the orders are aimed at expanding Route 60, in Hebron, for Israeli settlers.

Shaaban said Israel exploits the pretexts of infrastructure rehabilitation and road development as a tool to stifle Palestinian presence and disconnect villages and towns in all Palestinian areas, the report said. He slammed the measures as serious violations of international humanitarian law.