One dead following Israeli military attack in Tubas
An Israeli fighter jet has bombed the occupied West Bank town of Tammun, south of Tubas, killing at least one person, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.
Israel’s Air Force claimed it “attacked a squad of armed terrorists”, without providing further details. Israeli forces are preventing ambulance crews from reaching the site of the attack, according to the Quds News Network.
مصادر محلية: جيش الاحتلال يمنع سيارات الإسعاف من الوصول إلى موقع الغارة في بلدة طمون جنوب طوباس. pic.twitter.com/OOo4m1XdNz
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) January 7, 2025
Palestinian youths attack settler vehicles near Nablus
As we have been reporting, Israeli settlers have carried out attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank amid an apparent retaliation for a shooting attack earlier on Monday that killed three Israelis.
Al-Aqsa TV now reports that Palestinian youths have thrown Molotov cocktails at Israeli settler vehicles in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara, south of Nablus, as tensions continue to escalate.
No casualties have been reported so far.
‘Horrific night’ in West Bank as Israeli settlers set fire to homes, vehicles
As we have been reporting, Israeli settlers have attacked several Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, in apparent retaliation for a shooting attack near the illegal settlement of Kedumim that killed three people.
Palestinian human rights activist Ihab Hassan says that Israeli settler attacks have occurred in the villages of Fara’ata, Amatin, Hajjah, Turmus Aya, Kafr Qaddum and Funduq.
“A horrific night in the West Bank,” Hassan wrote in a post on X along with videos of the attacks.
The footage shows Palestinian villagers trying to extinguish raging fires as their vehicles and homes burn.
🚨 Another horrific attack by Israeli settler terrorists on the village of Amatin in Qalqilya, West Bank.
Israeli settler terrorists are now carrying out pogroms in six Palestinian villages: Fara'ata, Amatin, Hajja, Turmusaya, Kafr Qaddum, and Funduq. pic.twitter.com/jesOSrA5Pa
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) January 6, 2025
Israeli forces arrest 2 men in Nablus, storm Far’a camp
The Israeli military has stormed the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and arrested two Palestinian men in separate raids, according to the Palestinian Information Center and the Quds News Network.
In the Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, Israeli forces destroyed the entrance to the Far’a Camp Services Committee and stormed the building, according to the same sources. Israeli military bulldozers have also begun destroying infrastructure in the camp, including roads.
Israeli raids have been reported in locations across the West Bank in recent hours, including:
- the town of Kafr Laqif, east of Qalqilya;
- the centre of the city of Ramallah and the Qaddoura camp;
- the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, where a female student dormitory has been raided;
- the industrial zone in el-Bireh city; and
- the town of Marda, west of Salfit.