14 children among 77 killed in Israeli air strikes on occupied West Bank since October: UN
Since October, Israel has carried out at least 28 air strikes on the occupied West Bank, which have killed 77 Palestinians, including 14 children, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports.
The latest UN report on conditions for Palestinian people living in the occupied territory also notes that at least 200 houses were damaged during a recent Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank’s Tulkarem city.
Four people were killed by an Israeli air strike during the Nur Shams incursion, which also saw Israeli soldiers use armoured bulldozers and explosives to destroy seven residential buildings that left 47 people in 11 families, including 19 children, homeless.
The soldiers also damaged the main road linking Tulkarem with Nablus, which affected the water supply and interrupted power and internet services in the refugee camp.
A roundup of latest developments in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have conducted raids in:
- Hebron
- Sebastia, north of Nablus
- Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah
- Qalqilya, where two Palestinians were arrested
- Al-Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah
- Tulkarem, where two Palestinians were arrested
- Nablus, armed confrontations took place during an Israeli raid in the Old City
The Israeli army also demolished the house of a slain Palestinian in Beit Tamar village in the east of Bethlehem. In Khallet al-Dabaa, Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli settlers set fire to farmers’ lands.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in Jenin, occupied West Bank
Israeli special forces have killed a Palestinian man in Jenin. The 23-year-old was shot at the car repair store where he worked.
The incident is the latest in a spate of attacks by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and inside Israel in recent days, including a stabbing at a mall in the northern city of Karmiel in which an Israeli soldier was killed.
Settlers’ attacks continue in occupied West Bank
Local sources said a large number of [Israeli] settlers overnight attacked several homes that were vandalised. Two were burned down and some livestock stolen across areas in the occupied West Bank.
This morning, international activists who provide some protection to these Palestinian communities were also attacked.
Israeli settler attacks are averaging four every day, with the UN documenting 1,050 settler attacks since October 7.
The UN says more than 20 Palestinian communities, of at least 1,000 people, have disappeared in the Masafer Yatta area and the Jordan Valley since the start of the war.
These communities, usually in rural areas, are being pushed away into cities while the land is being cleared of Palestinians.
