Israeli forces step up West Bank raids
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have escalated raids in cities and towns across the occupied West Bank.
In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed a number of neighbourhoods as well as the Grand Mosque in the Sharfi market, AJA said, citing local sources. In the Tulkarem governorate, the soldiers fired live bullets as they stormed the towns of Shufa, Kafr al-Labad, Anabta, and Bal’a.
No arrests or injuries were reported.
And in Tammun, in the Tubas governorate, AJA said Israeli forces set up new military checkpoints.
Israeli forces launch attacks across Gaza
The Palestinian Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces have been blowing up residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. It added that Israeli forces also launched air attacks on northern Gaza City and shelled the southern Rafah City.
There was no immediate word on casualties.
The attacks come as hours remain for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to go into effect. The Palestinian Civil Defence says Israeli forces have killed at least 122 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since the truce deal was announced on Wednesday.
Journalists in Gaza celebrate as ceasefire approaches
Journalists gathered in front of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, just hours before a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was set to take effect on Saturday
Israeli forces have killed more than 200 journalists in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office, as well as many of their family members
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