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SvennoJ on 14 August 2024
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Heavy clashes reported in occupied West Bank’s Tubas city

Heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been reported in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas where local Palestinian resistance fighters have confronted an Israeli military incursion, according to local media reports.

Palestinian fighters report detonating two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) amid the ongoing clashes which began when Israeli troops poured into the city and surrounded a home in a predawn raid.

According to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, the Israeli forces fired antitank grenades at the besieged house and also bombed a vehicle in the city.

Images and video clips shared on social media show clouds of smoke following explosions and the sound of sustained and heavy automatic rifle fire.


Israeli military says Palestinian killed, others wounded in raid on Tubas

The Israeli military statement follows reports of intense clashes and explosions in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas and the nearby town of Tammun.

According to the Israelis, they have “eliminated a terrorist and hit additional terrorists during exchanges of fire”. Arrests have also been made.

We reported earlier that loud explosions had been heard in Tubas as Palestinian resistance fighters fought an early-morning raid by Israeli forces, who surrounded and besieged a Palestinian household.


Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces in Tubas identified

The victim of an Israeli military raid on Tubas city in the occupied West Bank has been identified as Fayez Fawaz Abu Amer.

According to the Wafa news agency, Abu Amer was shot after his home was surrounded by Israeli forces in an early-morning raid. Local media reported that Israeli forces fired antitank grenade shells at the besieged building to force the occupants to surrender.

The Israeli military said earlier that it had “eliminated a terrorist” and wounded others during the raid on Tubas. Local media report that the victim’s body has been removed by Israeli forces.

Palestinian fighters said they detonated two explosive devices during armed clashes with the Israeli forces who stormed Tubas.

Translation: New reinforcements heading towards Tubas city, coinciding with the ongoing aggressive military operation.


Clashes continue in Tubas

Confrontations are still ongoing in Tubas. They’ve also moved to the neighbouring area of Tammun. We know that Israeli forces have surrounded a house [in Tubas] and killed one Palestinian.

Local sources are reporting [more casualties]. We cannot confirm because medical teams have not been able to get there yet.

How did it all start? It started when undercover Israeli units raided Tubas and were discovered by Palestinians.

Tubas has an armed battalion. Mainly what the young men [who join the battalion] try to do is confront Israeli forces militarily when they enter Palestinian cities. But they’ve also made progress in making improvised explosive devices, basically trying to stop Israeli vehicles from moving.

There has been a lot of incitement in Israeli media lately regarding Tubas, with calls for the Israeli security establishment to crack down more on Palestinian resistance there.


Israeli drone hits occupied West Bank, killing 3

The Wafa news agency, citing security sources, reports that three young men were killed today when an Israeli drone bombed a group of people in the West Bank town of Tammun.

The town is southeast of Tubas, where an intense Israeli raid is taking place during which at least one Palestinian has already been killed.

Wafa’s sources say that Israeli forces are holding the young men’s bodies and the Palestine Red Crescent says soldiers prevented its crews from reaching the site of the bombing.


Death toll rises in Israeli drone strike on occupied West Bank’s Tammun

We can hear the sound of a drone. Local sources tell us they hear the sound of armed confrontations between Palestinian fighters and Israeli forces from time to time.

Israeli forces raided this whole city and its surroundings in the early hours of the morning. They surrounded a house and shot a Palestinian dead. Then, armed confrontations expanded to a nearby area called Tammun. There, an Israeli strike hit a car and killed four other Palestinians. This was confirmed to us by the governor of Tubas, who said Israeli forces took the bodies with them.

We’ve seen an extensive increase in the use of aerial strikes by Israeli forces that is making the lives of Palestinians more and more difficult.


Israeli forces demolish 5 Palestinian structures in Hebron

Israeli authorities have demolished five structures belonging to Palestinians in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, with the UN also confirming reports of demolitions.

According to UN data, Israeli forces have demolished more than 11,000 Palestinian structures in occupied territories since 2009.


Israel arrests 12 in latest West Bank raids

Israeli forces have rounded up 12 Palestinians, including one minor, in raids across the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

The arrests took place in the governorates of Qalqilya, Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Tubas.

They bring the total number of Israeli arrests in the West Bank since October 7 to 10,100, said the prisoners’ society.


Israeli military shoots US citizen in occupied West Bank

Last week, the Israeli military shot an American citizen in the leg when he was in the occupied West Bank in non-violent support for Palestinians and to raise awareness about the occupation.

The wounded man and bystanders told Al Jazeera the Israeli military shot at him, but the army said this was “accidental” while the US State Department expressed “concern”.