Israeli authorities force family out of home ahead of demolition in Qalqilya, West Bank
Israeli forces have raided the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank and forced a family to leave their home in preparation for its demolition, according to Palestinian media reports.
The raid comes amid a recent spate of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and reports that Israel has illegally seized more land this year in the occupied West Bank than in the previous 20 years combined.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that some of Israel’s recent expansion in the occupied West Bank was retaliation against the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic role in the growing international condemnation of Israel’s actions.
Israeli army forces demolish four Palestinian homes with heavy machinery during their raid at the historic Kasr Hisham area in Jericho, occupied West Bank on Thursday
Clashes as Israeli forces raid Tubas in occupied West Bank
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting Israeli raids in the city of Tubas and the village of al-Mazraa, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
AJA, citing Palestinian media, reported clashes in Tubas between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters, including from the Qassam Brigades and the Tubas Battalion of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Israeli settlers continue West Bank attacks in defiance of ICJ ruling
Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank are relentless. They create what the ICJ has just ruled is a coercive environment meant to displace Palestinians and annex their territory.
Friday’s ICJ ruling was groundbreaking – but it has not changed the violent reality on the ground.
Israeli forces injure Palestinian youth at checkpoint near Bethlehem: Report
Israeli forces have shot and injured a young Palestinian man at a military checkpoint in Jaba village, southwest of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported quoting Palestinian security sources.
The sources told Wafa that Israeli forces opened fire on the man early this morning, hitting him in the knee. His identity remains unknown.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society took him to Hussein Hospital in nearby Beit Jala for treatment, the report said.
Israeli settlers injure 2 people in West Bank’s Qusra: Report
Illegal Israeli settlers have injured a Palestinian and a foreign activist in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
Local sources quoted in the report said the individuals were working to plough and clear weeds from village lands this morning when the Israeli settlers assaulted the two with batons and stones.
