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SvennoJ on 15 August 2024
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Sixteen arrested in Hebron in occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have carried out a wave of arrests in Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank, rounding up 16 Palestinians, including a lawyer, reports the Wafa news agency.

During their raid in the governorate’s town of Halhul, Israeli forces shot a gas canister at a local home, causing a fire to break out, said Wafa. Additionally, in the town of Sa’ir, Israeli forces raided a family’s shops and seized some of their goods, it said.


Wounded Palestinians shot dead after West Bank drone attack: Rights group

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) has accused the Israeli military of shooting dead three Palestinians who were seriously wounded and lying on the ground after a drone attack in Tammun village in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

Based on documentation collected after the killings, the child rights group said the three young Palestinian men, including 17-year-old Mohammad Bashar Hasan Bani Odeh, were seriously injured but still alive when a military vehicle arrived at the scene of the attack.

When the Israeli soldiers realised that Mohammad and the other two injured men were alive, “they ordered a nearby ambulance driver to leave at gunpoint….and proceeded to fatally shoot each of them at point-blank range”, the organisation said in a statement on their website.

The bodies of the three slain men were then “confiscated”, DCIP said.

Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP, said foreign governments need to act now and place sanctions on “Israeli forces who have been allowed to brutally kill Palestinian children with impunity for decades”.


Casualty toll rises from Balata attack

As we’ve been reporting, an Israeli drone attack on the Balata refugee camp earlier this morning killed two Palestinians and injured others.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has now named those killed as Ahmad Sheikh Khalil and Wael Mish. The ministry also announced that a total of seven people have been injured from the attack, an increase from the earlier toll of four. Those injured include a woman and a child, according to the Wafa news agency.


Thirty arrested in latest West Bank raids

Israel’s military has arrested 30 Palestinians, including a female student, in its latest round of raids throughout the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

As we reported earlier, most of those detained since last night were taken from the Hebron governorate. Others were apprehended in the governorates of Ramallah, Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Nablus and Jerusalem, said the prisoners’ society.

Since October 7, Israel has made more than 10,100 arrests in the occupied territory, holding many in its custody with no charges.


Palestinians attacked by Israeli soldiers, settlers in occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian man, one of among at least 30 today, after assaulting him at his home in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron. Soldiers also protected settlers as they prevented Palestinian farmers from reaching their fields to harvest crops in Wadi Maain, according to the Wafa news agency.

Dozens of olive trees were set on fire by Israeli settlers in Khalayel al-Loz, southeast of Bethlehem, where a group of settlers had raised Israeli flags over Palestinian lands in the area a few days earlier.

In the Umm al-Jamal area in the northern Jordan Valley, settlers stole a flock of sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer and took them to their own illegal outposts.