Israel appoints pro-settler activist to oversee Palestinian property in East Jerusalem
Israel’s Finance Ministry has named Henanel Gurfinkel, a right-wing activist who claimed that East Jerusalem is under “Arab occupation”, to head an agency overseeing Palestinian property in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.
The news drew immediate concern from Ir Amim, a Jerusalem-focused Israeli rights group.
It said the move was a “portent of wide-scale Palestinian dispossession and displacement in Jerusalem on a magnitude not seen since 1967“.
Ir Amim said that Israeli authorities were “placing countless individuals at risk of losing their homes” in the remaining Palestinian neighbourhoods after already “expropriating one third of East Jerusalem for Israeli settlements and declaring another one third as Israeli National Parks”.
Israeli forces launch extensive crackdown in West Bank refugee camp
Israeli soldiers are carrying out a large-scale campaign of arrests in the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. We’ll bring you more on this when we hear more.
Israeli soldiers arrest seven in West Bank’s Salfit
Israeli forces have arrested seven Palestinians from the town of az-Zawiya, in the Salfit governorate of the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
The soldiers first raided the men’s homes, searching and tampering with their belongings, Wafa added. As we reported earlier, Israeli forces also carried out a large-scale campaign of arrests in the Aida refugee camp in the Bethlehem governorate overnight.
More than 11,900 Palestinians have been arrested in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
Israeli army carries out raids, arrests across West Bank
Israel has carried out several military operations across the occupied West Bank in the past few hours, according to the Wafa news agency. Here’s a rundown of the activities:
- Three people were arrested in the Hebron governorate.
- Several military checkpoints were set up and roads closed in and around Hebron, hindering civilian movements.
- Two men were severely beaten and arrested north of Bethlehem.
- The Association of Freed Prisoners said Majdi Abu Akar, the deputy secretary of the Fatah movement, was arrested. It said 50 other Palestinians were detained and later released following a raid in the Aida and al-Azza refugee camps near Bethlehem.
- One man was arrested in the village of Salem, east of Nablus.
- The Sebastia town, northwest of Nablus, was raided and ransacked.
- One man was injured in firing and two minors were arrested near Ramallah.
At least 730 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, according to the figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, since Israel’s war on Gaza started last year.
Israel attacks ‘terrorist’ cell in occupied West Bank
Israel’s military says it attacked a “terrorist” cell in the occupied West Bank’s Aqqaba village.
Two killed in Israeli attack near West Bank village: Palestinian ministry
Another person has been lightly injured “in lower extremities” after the Israeli army bombed a car near the village of Aqqaba in the northeastern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.
The brief statement said the bodies and the injured person were transferred to the Tubas Governmental Hospital.
Israeli army arrests 18 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Prisoners’ groups
Israeli forces have arrested at least 18 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since yesterday, according to a statement by prisoners’ groups.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said the arrests took place across the governorates of Salfit, Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus as well as in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli army arrests doctor, nurse in West Bank’s Tubas
Israeli forces have arrested a doctor and a nurse at the Tubas government hospital in the centre of the occupied West Bank’s Tubas city. That’s according to videos broadcast by Palestinian platforms and activists and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad.
We have reported earlier that two bodies and an injured person were transferred to the same hospital after an Israeli air attack on a car near the village of Aqqaba in the northeastern West Bank.
Qassam Brigades says it is clashing with Israeli troops in Tubas
The armed wing of Hamas says fighters armed with machineguns have engaged in clashes with the Israeli forces. The fighting is taking place near the Tubas Turkish Government Hospital and the Salhab area north of the occupied West Bank city.
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