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Renewed Israeli incursions into occupied Tulkarem and East Jerusalem

Sources have told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces are storming the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Sources also reported that Israeli police have stormed neighbourhoods in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.

Earlier, Hamas had called for Palestinians to confront the incursions by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. “We call on the masses of the West Bank for more defiance, steadfastness and continued confrontation with the occupation and settlers in all governorates,” it said in a statement.


Israeli army, security service claim to have arrested PFLP members in Lebanon, West Bank

More than 60 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) organisation have been arrested in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, according to a joint statement by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet internal security service cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.

Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP is a secular Marxist-Leninist political group and part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It is the second-largest group in the PLO after Fatah.

The group’s armed wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, has fought Israel in Gaza alongside Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).


Israeli authorities demolish home in East Jerusalem’s Silwan

Israeli authorities have demolished a home in the al-Bustan neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan area, news agencies have reported.

According to the Jerusalem Governorate, this is the seventh house demolished in the neighbourhood in the past year. Approximately 120 additional homes are under demolition orders, which could displace about 1,500 people.

Since October last year, the Israeli government has accelerated demolitions in Palestinian areas, in what campaigners call collective punishment.



European Parliament member highlights ‘repression and occupation’ in West Bank

Marc Botenga, a member of the European Parliament, has documented his visit to the occupied West Bank, saying that “all signs of repression and occupation are evident there, even in the smallest details”.

Botenga, who is also a member of the Federal Parliament of Belgium, posted a video from his visit to the city of Hebron on his social media accounts, saying that Israeli authorities and illegal settlers are partnering to commit the most heinous violations against the Palestinian people.

In video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news agency, Botenga said Israeli settlers sometimes throw garbage and Molotov cocktails at Palestinian shops and windows. He also mentioned the numerous checkpoints set up by the Israeli military, which now controls “even the breaths of the people of the land”, according to his description.

Translation: In Hebron in Palestine, signs of Israeli occupation are everywhere. Checkpoints, closed shops, desertion of residents … We went there to see apartheid and occupation directly. A colonial machine still supported by the European Union – a disgrace.