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SvennoJ on 27 August 2024
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Israeli forces destroy roads in occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem, Tubas cities



The Palestinian Information Center has posted footage of Israeli bulldozers digging up roads in the city of Tulkarem and the Far’a refugee camp in the city of Tubas.

It also posted a video of several Israeli military trucks arriving in the city of Jenin ahead of the launching of a major operation in the northern occupied West Bank.


Three Palestinians killed in Israeli drone attack on West Bank car

The Wafa news agency is reporting that three young Palestinian men were killed when an Israeli drone bombed a vehicle in the village of Seir, southeast of Jenin. It cited the Palestine Red Crescent Society as saying that the bodies of the victims have been retrieved from the vehicle and are being transferred to the hospital.

The drone attack came as Israeli forces launched a “major operation” involving hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank. At least four more Palestinians have been killed in the operations – two in Jenin and two in the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas.

Israeli violence in West Bank comes as world ‘distracted’ by Gaza horror: Analyst

Omar Baddar, a Middle East political analyst, said that the major military operation in the occupied West Bank, which has so far killed at least seven Palestinians in recent hours, is part of a longer strategy of Israel to “ethnically cleanse” the Palestinian territory.

“I think the context of it is worth nothing, which is the fact that Israel has been intending to annex and ethnically cleanse huge parts of the West Bank for a very, very long time,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.

“I think that they [Israeli forces] saw an opportunity given that the world is distracted by the horror that Israel is unleashing on Gaza to kind of escalate in the West Bank. So what we’ve seen over the past several months is more than 650 Palestinians being killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers throughout the West Bank,” he said.

“In any other context, this would be a crisis that everybody would be talking about. But only in the shadow of the genocide that Israel is unleashing on Gaza has this kind of passed without people really paying attention,” he added.



Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Khirbet al-Farisiya

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians in al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

Wafa reported a group of settlers attacked tents belonging to Palestinian brothers who live in al-Farisiya, in the latest in a string of escalating attacks that have seen Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians and stealing their property.

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem, the Palestinian residents of al-Farisiya are shepherds and farmers who have lived in tents and shacks since their historic village was completely demolished by Israel in 2010.