Israeli settlers torch Palestinian vehicles in Jerusalem: Report
Videos, verified by Al Jazeera, show a number of vehicles ablaze in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Al Qastal media outlet reported that Israeli settlers had set fire to the vehicles in predawn attacks.
مستوطنون يحرقون عددا من المركبات في حي الشيخ جراح بالقدس المحتلة pic.twitter.com/y2VB06Pmtq
— القسطل الإخباري (@AlQastalps) November 13, 2024
Clashes near occupied West Bank’s Hebron after Israel demolishes Palestinian homes
Wafa news agency reports that several Palestinians have suffered tear gas inhalation after clashes broke out in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the West Bank.
The clashes between locals and Israeli security forces broke out at the entrance to the town after the forces demolished several Palestinian structures, including two homes. Israeli forces responded with live bullets and tear gas, Wafa reported.
Elswhere in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers stormed a Bedouin community and began bulldozing lands, Wafa reported.
Areas around Ras Ain al-Auja were cleared by the settlers in what one local activist described as the prelude for their takeover.
The settlers, who were escorted by the Israeli army, entered the community, roamed its streets, and damaged and destroyed local property, according to Hassam Malihat, the general supervisor of Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, who spoke to Wafa.
Israeli forces detain journalists in occupied West Bank
Esra Ghorani, a female reporter with the Palestinian Wafa news agency, has been detained along with the Palestine TV crew at the Israeli military checkpoint in the Tayasir village, east of Tubas city in the occupied West Bank, the news agency reported.
The report said the journalists were covering the demolition of a house by the Israeli military in the village of Kardala in the northern Jordan Valley before their detention.
Israel has continued targeting journalists and media organisations in the occupied West Bank as well as Gaza. It banned and shut down Al Jazeera in Ramallah in September. Prior to that, Al Jazeera was also banned in Israel. At least 128 journalists and media workers are among the tens of thousands of people Israel has killed in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon over the past year – the deadliest time for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began to track the killings more than four decades ago.
Israeli army raids Tulkarem
Several Israeli army vehicles have stormed the city of Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, and surrounded a house in the Ezbet al-Jarad suburb, Wafa news agency reported. The report said reconnaissance military aircraft were flying at low altitudes over the area amid heavy gunfire.
