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Israeli soldiers arrest 8 Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have arrested eight Palestinians overnight and early this morning in the occupied West Bank.
Soldiers raided Yatma, Beit Dajan and Beita in the Nablus governorate, Yatta in Hebron, Azzun in Qalqilya, al-Mughayyir, Deir Dibwan and Burqa in Ramallah, and Hizma in the northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
We reported earlier that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone air strike on a car near the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, and the Israeli forces took their bodies. The Israeli army claimed one of them was the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the camp.
The total number of people killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s war on Gaza began more than a year ago has reached 751, including about 160 minors. More than 6,200 have been wounded and 11,000 arrested in the Palestinian territory.
Attacks, detentions and demolitions at record highs in West Bank
Israel’s war on Gaza emboldens settler attacks in West Bank
There has been a massive increase in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank since last October, when Israel’s war on Gaza started, according to Yara Hawari of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.
“Every day, there are several settler attacks, which have resulted in dozens of Palestinians being killed, hundreds of injuries and destruction of properties,” she said. “This is emboldened by the genocide in Gaza, where we have seen the Israeli regime commit horrific acts of violence.
“Obviously, they have not faced any kind of consequences for that. Worse than that, the Israeli government also actively encouraged them [settlers] more than ever before for them to attack Palestinians,” Hawari said.
She reminded that the Israeli government distributed hundreds of firearms to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
