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SvennoJ on 24 October 2024
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Clashes, arrests reported as Israeli military carries out West Bank raids

Local media reports detail several Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank in recent hours. They include:

  • The city of el-Bireh has been stormed
  • The city of Nablus has been stormed
  • The town of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah, has been stormed
  • The Balata camp, east of Nablus, has been stormed and clashes have broken out with Palestinian resistance groups
  • Israeli forces have launched an arrest campaign in the Fawwar camp, south of Hebron


Israeli soldier shooting 11-year-old brings West Bank child killings to 165: UN

The killing of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli military on Tuesday brings to 165 the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past year alone, the UN said.

The victim, identified as Abdullah Jamal Hawash, posed “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces when he was shot in the chest for throwing stones at an armoured vehicle in Nablus, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.

The killing follows after a 17-year-old in Hebron was shot in the head by Israeli forces on Sunday and is now in critical condition. Three days earlier, another 11-year-old was also shot in the head and critically injured by Israeli forces in the Hebron governorate’s Arroub refugee camp.

Since last year, 165 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank – 129 shot by Israeli soldiers and 36 killed in Israeli air strikes, the UN said.


Israeli military arrests 10 people in Hebron raids

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces had stormed the Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, and launched an arrest campaign. Now, the Palestinian state news agency Wafa confirms that at least seven people have been arrested in the camp.

In addition, Israeli forces have arrested one person from the village of al-Hadab, while three people have been arrested from the town of Dura, both southwest of Hebron.


Number of arrests in occupied West Bank rises to 18

At least 18 Palestinians, including a journalist and former prisoners, have been arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Wednesday evening.

This brings the number of those arrested since the start of the war on Gaza to more than 11,400 people, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

During the Israeli raid in Hebron that we reported on earlier, citizens’ homes were vandalised and damaged while some Palestinians were used as human shields, the organisation reported.