Clashes in Tulkarem as Israeli forces continue West Bank raids
The Wafa news agency is reporting casualties and arrests in the West Bank as Israeli forces continued raiding cities and towns across the occupied Palestinian territory.
Here’s where the raids took place:
- In the city of Tulkarem, where Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians, shooting and wounding at least one of them. The military also deployed snipers on roofs and sent in bulldozers to destroy infrastructure.
- In the town of Deir Ballut, west of the city of Salfit, where Israeli forces arrested 15-year-old Shadi Ahed Moosa.
- In the city of Tubas, where 19-year-old Ziad Ghassan Daraghmeh was arrested.
- In the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, where Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians and deployed tear gas, live rounds and sound bombs.
- In the city of Hebron, where Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle and threw a sound bomb into the car causing the driver to suffocate.
Three Palestinians killed by Israeli strike in West Bank, ministry says
Three Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike on a house in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.
The air attack came as Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said fighters from its Tulkarem Battalion clashed with Israeli soldiers in the camp and detonated explosive devices targeting military vehicles.
“Our fighters continue to clash with the occupation forces and we have achieved direct hits among them,” the Qassam Brigades said.
The Quds News Network also posted a video of a fire in the camp following Israel’s ground assault on the camp in the early hours of the morning.
تغطية صحفية: استمرار اشتعال النيران بعد تفجير عبوة ناسفة في جرافة عسكرية للاحتلال خلال اقتحام مدينة طولكرم pic.twitter.com/ORb4ax19sw
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) August 21, 2024
Translation: Fire continues after an explosive device was detonated near an Israeli military bulldozer during the storming of Tulkarem.
Israel forces arrest 25 Palestinians across West Bank: Report
Israeli forces have arrested 25 Palestinians, including two women and a child, overnight and this morning across the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a joint statement that the Israeli raids were marked by violence and intimidation.
Witnesses also told PPS that detainees and their families experienced threats and extensive damage to their homes.
Four Israeli settlers detained over West Bank village attack: Report
Israeli police detained four Israeli settlers accused of taking part in a deadly rampage in the Palestinian village of Jit last week, reports The Times of Israel. The four suspects are being investigated for “terrorism against Palestinians”, said The Times of Israel, citing a statement from police and the Shin Bet security service.
As we reported last week, dozens of masked Israeli settlers broke into Jit, near Qalqilya, on August 16, setting fire to cars, destroying property and shooting dead one Palestinian.
Four out of a 100, and will likely not lead to anything.
Two homes belonging to brothers demolished in West Bank village: Report
Israeli forces have started demolishing two homes in the village of Kharbatha al-Misbah in the occupied West Bank, reports the Wafa news agency. The homes belong to two brothers and collectively house 13 people, said Wafa, citing the head of the village’s council.
Home demolitions are common in the West Bank, where Israel rejects nearly all building permits for Palestinians.
In July, Israeli forces demolished 98 structures in the West Bank, including 62 inhabited homes, reports the Ramallah-based Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. So far this year, demolitions have displaced more than 2,000 people in the West Bank, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Israeli forces establish outpost north of Jericho city: Report
Israeli forces established a new outpost near the Auja Spring, north of Jericho city in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.
Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told Wafa that the number of pastoral Israeli outposts in the Jordan Valley had surged.
He added that there was also an increase in the frequency of attacks against the neighbouring Bedouin community.
Tulkarem homes set on fire as 12-hour Israeli raid drags on
It’s been 12 hours since the Israeli raid started in Tulkarem refugee camp.
We hear sounds of explosives and gunfire here from time to time and see Israeli military jeeps impeding people’s everyday lives in the area as they try to go to work or school.
People inside the refugee camp say the Israeli army has set fire to some of the homes and that civil defence teams are not being allowed in to put out the fires.
Tulkarem is an area that has been hit hard by Israeli raids. Since the war started, 90 homes in the area have been destroyed by the Israeli army’s operations.
We are also seeing an increase in aerial strikes. This morning, one strike killed at least three Palestinians.
