Israeli military surrounds foreign activists in building near Nablus
Israeli forces surrounded a building housing 16 foreign activists in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, on Friday night and tried to break down the door, Wafa news agency reported.
The activists were in the town to support residents as part of the “Faz3a” solidarity campaign, which aims to provide international-led protection from Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank.
There are no updates on what happened to the activists following the raid on the building.
Israeli military raids have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in recent hours. They include:
- The town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah
- A house in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya. A Palestinian was arrested
- Al-Suwaih neighbourhood in the town of Silwan
Israel’s ‘silent war’ on seizing Palestinian land in occupied West Bank
The UN says Israel is waging war on the occupied West Bank, adding that a silent war is also taking place that is focused on seizing Palestinian territory and uprooting Palestinian families from their land.
Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have been among the most violent in the past year.
“Israel is waging two wars in the occupied West Bank. One campaign is record-breaking in its violence and destruction. The other is silent but strategically potent,” said Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from the occupied West Bank.
“It is the war on Palestinian land and the existence of Palestinian communities under the cover of genocide.”
Israel has illegally seized 27.8 square kilometres of Palestinian land, including areas the UN designated as World Heritage sites. That’s more than half of all the Palestinian land seized in the preceding 24 years.
“Since last October Israeli forces have demolished nearly 2,000 Palestinian homes and structures and displaced nearly 5,000 Palestinians, including uprooting entire communities from their lands affecting another more than 530,000 people.”
In addition, more than 700 people have been killed in these attacks since last October.
Palestinian farmers under attack by Israeli settlers
Since the start of the current conflict, Al Jazeera has documented the aftermath of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian Bedouins across the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settlers force Palestinian olive farmers from land in West Bank
The Wafa news agency reports that armed Israeli settlers forced olive farmers off their land in Jalud village, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday morning, amid threats that included “opening fire in the area”.
Threats, attacks, theft of olives and the destruction of olive trees by settlers have escalated in the West Bank with the arrival of the harvest season, Wafa reports.
On Thursday, Israeli right group Yesh Din released video footage of an armed Israeli settler openly stealing the olive harvest from a privately owned farm in the Palestinian town of Awarta, southeast of Nablus.
Each year at harvest time, Palestinians face a heightened wave of attacks and damage to their trees, the rights group said. Israeli soldiers are often present during such violence and sometimes join in attacks on Palestinian farmers, Yesh Din said.
Israeli forces storm town east of Nablus in occupied West Bank
We reported on how settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, forced Palestinian farmers from their land south of Nablus. A group of Israeli soldiers have also been spotted storming the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Multiple videos from the scene showed the moments Israeli forces stormed a building under construction in the town this morning. They were seen on the roof of the building as well, but it is still unclear who they were targeting.
Half-life, half-house: Portrait of a Palestinian family after Israeli raids
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/10/12/half-life-half-house-portrait-of-a-palestinian-family-after-israeli-raids
On September 2, an Israeli soldier used a bulldozer to destroy the facade of Akram Nassar’s house, like several others on the street.
Akram’s barely standing house, with none of the privacy or protection the idea of home conjures, fits in with the devastated landscape of the West Bank’s Tulkarem.
Since October 7, the Israeli military’s “counter-terror” raids have damaged or destroyed most dwellings and infrastructure in the refugee camp.
Akram Nassar’s children, Rahim and Bara, in their partially demolished house, Tulkarem refugee camp, occupied West Bank, September 16
