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What’s happening in the occupied West Bank right now?

Our colleagues on the ground in the occupied West Bank are reporting that for about four hours now, Israeli forces have been raiding the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah.

Sources told Al Jazeera that dozens of Palestinians have been questioned in local community centres. At least 20 Palestinians have also been rounded up from Beit Surik. Most returned after they were interrogated.

Other raids were reported in Qalqilya, Nablus with a focus on Balata and Askar refugee camps, as well as al-Khader town south of Bethlehem and al-Azza refugee camp north of the city.

Israeli security forces have besieged Hebron for a fourth day running and more checkpoints and gates have been erected.


Israeli forces using ‘lethal war-like tactics’ in West Bank raids

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that Israeli forces are using “lethal war-like tactics”, including air strikes, in the occupied West Bank, with people being killed, injured, displaced or deprived of access to basic services.

The Israeli military’s latest assault across the occupied West Bank is now in its eighth day. At least 33 Palestinians have been killed and 130 wounded since last Wednesday, the vast majority in Jenin.

The statement added that OCHA mobilised organisations from the UN and beyond to assess the damage and humanitarian needs on the ground, adding that during a visit to Tulkarem on Saturday, it was confirmed that 120 people, including more than 40 children, had been displaced and their homes destroyed.

It added that residents were traumatised and in need of psychosocial support.


Israeli troops move inside the Jenin refugee camp


‘No street, alley left without destruction’ as Israel’s raid on Tulkarem enters third day

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces are inflicting “widespread destruction” in the city and refugee camp of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank as a large-scale military operation in the area entered a third day.

Citing its correspondents on the ground, the agency said Israeli forces dropped bombs on the Tulkarem refugee camp, causing fires to break out in al-Shamaliya neighbourhood.

At least eight people sought treatment for suffocation, it reported.

Israeli snipers were stationed on roofs of tall buildings, while spy drones continued to fly at altitudes and bulldozers damaged infrastructure, with “no street or alley left without destruction,” it reported.

The Israeli siege of al-Israa and Thabet hospitals was also ongoing, it added.

The continued Israeli operation in Tulkarem comes after Israeli forces killed three people, including a 15-year-old child on Tuesday, and destroyed power, water and sewage networks across the Tulkarem refugee camp.


People check the devastation in the the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank in the aftermath of a large-scale Israeli military operation


Another 30 Palestinians arrested in latest West Bank raids

Israeli forces have rounded up 30 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

Among those apprehended are children and former prisoners, the group said. Their detentions bring Israel’s total number of arrests in the West Bank since October 7 to more than 10,400, it added.