Palestinian man wounded as Israeli forces raid West Bank cities, towns
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have shot and wounded a young Palestinian man during a raid on the old city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank this morning.
AJA cited medics at the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The Wafa news agency also reported several Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank, including:
- the suburb of Shuweika in Tulkarem, where Israeli soldiers arrested a young man
- the village of Faroun, south of Tulkarem, where they arrested another young man
- the villages of Beit Qad and Faqqua, where soldiers ransacked and searched a home
- the town of Attil, north of Tulkarem, where soldiers stormed several homes and destroyed belongings.
Palestinians inspect damage at a store on Tuesday after an Israeli raid that injured two people in Tammun village, near the occupied West Bank city of Tubas
Palestinians in West Bank rally in solidarity with detainees in Israeli prisons
Palestinians held a protest to show solidarity with Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday
Since October 7, Israeli forces have made some 10,200 arrests during daily raids on the occupied West Bank
At least 3,660 Palestinians are being held in Israel under administrative detention, meaning they are imprisoned without charge or trial
Israeli banks rejecting shekel transfers from Palestinian banks
Israeli banks have stopped accepting shekel cash transfers from Palestinian banks in the occupied West Bank, say Palestinian officials, a policy that could block Palestinians from paying for crucial goods and services.
“In the next few days, banks in Palestine will be unable to finance trade operations between Palestinian and Israeli merchants, as their ability to make financial transfers is directly connected to shipping the accumulated shekel banknotes to their Israeli counterparts,” warned the Palestine Monetary Authority.
The office of Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in June renewed a waiver enabling Israeli banks to work with their Palestinian counterparts in the West Bank, has not commented on the matter.
Smotrich, who leads a pro-settler party, has frequently utilised his ministry to apply financial pressure on Palestinians, including by signing an order in June to withhold tens of millions in tax funds owed to the Palestinian Authority.
Jordan warns of ‘dangerous deterioration’ in occupied West Bank
In a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says there is a need for “effective, practical steps” to stop Israeli violations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Safadi also stressed the need to stop all illegal Israeli measures in the West Bank and Israeli violations of the historical and legal status quo at Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem.
He stressed that Jordan would take all necessary measures to stop attacks on holy sites and is preparing to take the necessary legal measures in international courts against these attacks, “which constitute a clear violation of international law and a dangerous escalation that Jordan will confront by all possible means”.
Blinken stressed the US position on the necessity of respecting the historical status quo for the holy sites.
