Widespread destruction in Tulkarem after Israel’s deadly raids
Israeli forces withdrew from the city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp on Thursday after a three-day operation in which some 20 homes were blown up or burned to the ground, according to local official.
Israeli forces also dug up roads using bulldozers, destroying water, sewage and power networks across the city and the refugee camp, according to residents.
At least five people, including a girl, were killed in the Israeli raids. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Israeli forces also prevented medics from reaching wounded people and laid siege to several hospitals.
Israeli settlers poison Palestinian livestock in occupied West Bank
A Palestinian said Israeli settlers poisoned 50 of his sheep in Arab al-Melahat community near Jericho.
According to the local, who said he was recently harrassed by Israeli settlers who tried to steal his livestock, two settlers returned with a bag near his property late last night.
Farhat Mleehat told Al Jazeera that his losses are estimated at between $10,000 and $12,000.
Settlers, especially those who live in so-called agricultural settlement outposts, are notoriously aggressive; stealing sheep and sometimes slaughtering some is not uncommon – poisoning, however, is rare.
A screengrab from a video circulated on social media and by local Palestinian media platforms shows a number of dead sheep. The footage has been verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit.
Al-Quds Brigades mourn 5 fighters killed by Israel in Tubas
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) says Israeli forces killed five of its fighters in the occupied West Bank. The members of the group’s Tubas Battalion belonged to the manufacturing and engineering unit and they were killed while preparing ambushes in the Tubas governorate.
Al-Quds Brigades reiterated its commitment to continue fighting Israeli forces until the liberation of Palestine.
Israeli forces block Palestinians from praying at Mount Sabih after activist killed
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reports that Israeli forces have blocked Palestinians from reaching Mount Sabih in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank – where Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed last week.
Mahmoud Barham, head of the Beita Municipal Council, stated that Israeli forces set up military checkpoints at the town’s intersections to stop residents from accessing Mount Sabih.
The 26-year-old activist was protesting alongside locals against the illegal Israeli settlement of Evyatar on Palestinian land when she was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier.
According to Wafa, Aysenur is one of 17 people who have been killed since the establishment of the illegal outpost in 2021.
UNRWA confirms its worker killed in occupied West Bank
The sanitation worker was shot dead on the roof of his home by a sniper in the north of the territory on Thursday, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency says on X, confirming earlier reports.
“This marks the first time an UNRWA staff member was killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years,” it added.
