Palestinian man killed as Israeli forces raids towns across West Bank
The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli special forces killed 37-year-old Abdul Raouf Rajih Hamed al-Masry after surrounding his house in the town of Aqqaba, north of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 678 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
Al-Masry’s killing came as Israeli forces carried out raids in towns and cities across the West Bank late on Tuesday and into the early hours of this morning.
They include:
- Several neighbourhoods of the cities of Ramallah and el-Bireh, where one young man whose identity is not yet known was arrested
- The town of Anabta, east of the city of Tulkarem, which caused clashes to erupt
- The city of Tulkarem
- The town of al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem
- The town of al-Khader, where Israeli forces fired tear gas and sound bombs
- The town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, where a young man was wounded when Israeli forces deployed a sound bomb amid clashes
- The town of Yatta, south of Hebron, where Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian man after opening fire on his vehicle.
At least 25 Palestinians detained in occupied West Bank
At least 25 Palestinians, including a journalist and former prisoners, have been detained by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a joint statement cited by the official Wafa news agency that the Palestinians were detained during raids in Hebron, Qalqilya, Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem, Tubas and Bethlehem.
Israeli settlers attack olive farmers in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers have destroyed about 70 olive trees in Husan village west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Wafa news agency, quoting the director of the local village council.
In the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, Israeli soldiers attacked olive pickers and farmers, forcing them to leave their land, and seized a tractor from the area.
Such attacks have intensified over the years, with hundreds of incidents of settler violence, backed by soldiers, against farmers taking place since the start of the war on Gaza.
An olive farmer checks trees cut down by Israelis in the West Bank city of Salfit
