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SvennoJ on 05 December 2024
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MSF condemns Israeli raid on West Bank hospital

We’ve been covering an Israeli raid on the Specialized Arab Hospital in Nablus on Wednesday, during which special forces arrested a Palestinian man who was wounded in an attack on the village of Aqqaba. The raid came after Israeli forces also stormed the Turkish Government Hospital in the city of Tubas on Tuesday. That was where casualties from the attack on Aqqaba were initially taken.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, recounted what happened in Tubas on Tuesday. The group said Israeli forces stormed the hospital and detained staff, intimidated patients and caused damage to the emergency room.

“During this hour-long raid, five medical staff were detained and one person was wounded. Medical staff on site were threatened at gunpoint and subjected to aggressive questioning. Patients were told to stay still or they would be shot and killed,” MSF said in a post on X.

The group’s deputy head of mission for Palestine, Karine Robert, said the “violent incursion” was “unacceptable and shocking”.


Seven arrested during Israeli raids across Nablus

The Israeli military has carried out raids across Nablus governorate in the occupied West Bank, arresting seven people, the Wafa news agency reports.

  • Three men, including a father and son, were arrested in the town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus.
  • Two men were arrested in the village of Talfit, southeast of Nablus.
  • A man was arrested in Nablus’s Old City, where Israeli forces opened fire and raided homes.
  • A student was arrested in the town of Qabalan, southeast of Nablus.

Translation: Israeli occupation forces storm the old town of Nablus


Israel tightens restrictions on movements at two checkpoints in occupied West Bank

The Tayasir military checkpoint, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, and the Hamra checkpoint, east of Nablus, have been witnessing repeated closures to Palestinian citizens’ movement for more than a year, according to the Wafa news agency.

Local sources told Wafa today that the Israeli military tightened its military measures at those checkpoints on Monday morning again. Palestinians depend on them to reach their places of work in the Jordan Valley, or to transport their goods to the Palestinian market, the agency said.

Israeli forces round up 12 Palestinians in occupied West Bank’s Hebron governorate

The arrests have taken place in the historic centre of the Hebron city, as well as the nearby towns of Beit Ummar and as-Samu, reports the Wafa news agency. Among those arrested were a father and his 16-year-old son.


More Israeli raids in occupied West Bank

The town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank has been stormed by Israeli forces, according to the Wafa news agency. Separately, Israeli soldiers fired sound bombs and gas as it searched homes in the northern city of Qalqilya.


At least 28 Palestinians arrested in occupied West Bank: Prisoners’ group

As we have been reporting throughout the early hours of this morning, Israeli forces have carried out a new wave of arrests and raids across the occupied West Bank. A total of 28 Palestinians were arrested since yesterday evening, including the mother of two who were killed by the Israeli army and a wounded person who was taken from a hospital in Nablus, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

The arrests mostly took place in the governorates of Ramallah, Tulkarem, Tubas, and Jerusalem, the monitoring group said in a statement on Telegram.

Since the start of the war in Gaza, the Palestinian occupied territory has witnessed a surge in Israeli military incursions. More than 11,900 people have been arrested since October 7. The figure does not include the number of those detained from Gaza which it is estimates to be in the thousands, the group added.


Israel claims to have killed 7 Palestinian fighters in West Bank over past week

The Israeli military says its forces have killed seven Palestinian fighters “from the air” and arrested 50 “wanted individuals” during ground operations in the occupied West Bank over the past week.

The announcement came a day after Israel claimed to have killed three Hamas operatives in the Aqqaba area of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, where a car was bombed by an Israeli fighter jet.

The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, confirmed the deaths of only two members in that attack. It promised to continue resisting Israeli forces “until victory and liberation”. The third person injured in the Aqqaba attack was later arrested by the Israeli forces in a hospital in Nablus.