Israeli military carries out arrests in Nablus, Jenin
The Israeli military has arrested a Palestinian journalist after raiding his house in the Talaat at-Tur neighbourhood of the city of Nablus, according to local media reports.
Israeli forces have also raided a home and arrested several members of a family in Talaat at-Tur, while an armed group, the Nablus Brigade, has said its fighters engaged Israeli troops in gun battles around the Balata refugee camp.
A Palestinian man has also been arrested during the storming of the town of Jalqamous in Jenin governorate.
Israeli military raids have been reported in other locations in the occupied West Bank in recent hours, including:
- The Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem
- The city of Tulkarem, where bulldozers have destroyed infrastructure
- The towns of Jamma’in and Sebastia in the Nablus governorate
تغطية صحفية: من اقتحام الاحتلال لموقع قصف المركبة على طريق عتيل زيتا قرب طولكرم. pic.twitter.com/iCddlYxos2
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Translation: From the occupation’s storming of the vehicle bombing site on the Attil Zeita Road near Tulkarem.
At least 5 dead after Israeli military strike on car in Tulkarem
Local media now reports that at least five people were killed in the drone strike and their bodies have been taken to Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem.
The Israeli military has claimed that the car contained a “terrorist squad”, without providing more information.
Palestinians inspect a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Zeita, near Tulkarem city in the occupied West Bank, which killed five people on Saturday
Hamas military commander in Tulkarem killed in Israeli strike on car
The leader of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Tulkarem has been killed following an Israeli drone strike on the vehicle he was travelling in, the Palestinian group has confirmed.
Haitham Balidi is among five people killed in the attack near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. The other four occupants of the vehicle have yet to be identified.
Four occupants ‘dismembered’ by Israeli air strike on car near Tulkarem
Palestinians we’ve been speaking to say that the air strike targeted a vehicle. According to locals, [it was carrying] fighters and one of them is believed to be a head of the Qassam Brigades.
Medical sources who we’ve been speaking to in the Tulkarem area said they received the body of a Palestinian, and four people were dismembered – body parts – as a result of the strike.
Tension has been already spiralling in that area as Israeli forces say they are looking for the leaders of the battalion in the Tulkarem area. This is a developing story and we are still collecting details.
It’s another day under Israeli occupation. Another day with Israeli forces raiding different cities in the occupied West Bank arresting people and destroying parts of the infrastructure – the roads, water lines, electricity lines in different areas.
We’ve seen them raiding Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, even here near a refugee camp in Ramallah.
Let’s not forget that since the war started, raids by the Israeli forces on the occupied West Bank have been intensifying and amounting to almost 40 raids per day in different cities, refugee camps and villages.
