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UN confirms home demolitions by Israel in the occupied West Bank

The UN confirmed reports of three demolitions of Palestinian homes by Israeli authorities across the occupied West Bank.

The demolitions took place in Arroub, Furush Beit Dajan, and al-Jalama.

According to UN data compiled since 2009, Israeli forces have destroyed at least 11,638 Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, displacing 18,833 people. More than 1,300 demolitions have taken place in 2024.

Israel moves to confiscate UNRWA HQs in occupied East Jerusalem: Reports

Israeli media reports say Israel is moving to confiscate the land of the headquarters of UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem and allocate it for illegal settlements.

The area will be turned into 1,440 housing units and preparations are reportedly under way with an order issued for seizing the land, reports by Israeli Army Radio and Israel Hayom said.

In May, Israeli settlers set fire to the compound of the headquarters amid increasing Israeli rhetoric against the UN agency and efforts to designate it a “terrorist” organisation.


Israeli military says it launches an air attack in Tulkarem

The Israeli military says it has attacked a “terror cell” in the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

Earlier, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli forces conducted raids in Tulkarem and destroyed infrastructure.

Wafa’s correspondent reported: “Heavily armoured bulldozers barged their way into the city from the western entrance and made their way to the Nur Shams refugee camp.”


Two killed in Israeli attack on Tulkarem, occupied West Bank

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that two people have been killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp by an earlier Israeli air strike on the area of the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army claimed this strike, saying, without providing evidence, that it targeted a “terror cell”

Israel says 2 Palestinian fighters killed in drone strike, confiscates remains

The Israeli military has informed Palestinian authorities in the occupied West Bank that they have confiscated the bodies of two men killed in a drone strike on a car east of Tulkarem city on Thursday evening, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Israel’s military said it recovered weapons and ammunition from the car, following the air attack in the Tulkarem area, and claimed it had killed two Palestinian fighters, including the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the slain men as Iyad Muhammad Abdullah, from Nur Shams, and Awad Jamil Saqr Omar from Bal’a town in the Tulkarem governorate.

 

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 11 October 2024