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34 people killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank so far this year: UN

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released a situational update on humanitarian conditions in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli military raids and settler attacks have ramped up in recent days.

OCHA says:

  • Israeli forces have killed 34 people, including six children, during incursions in the occupied West Bank so far this year.
  • Twelve of the victims were killed during Israel’s ongoing operation in Jenin, which has also injured at least 50, including via air raids.
  • Israeli settler violence in the West Bank has injured at least 17 Palestinians, including two children, in the past week alone.
  • New Israeli checkpoints and travel restrictions in the occupied territory are impeding commerce and cutting off access to health facilities.
  • At present, 68 percent of the West Bank’s medical points operate no more than two to three days a week, while hospitals are running at just 70 percent capacity.


Palestinians ‘prepared to be arrested at any moment’

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners during its first exchange under the ongoing ceasefire deal with Hamas. While the freed prisoners received warm receptions at home, a cloud of uncertainty lingers, as Israel continues a mass arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank.

“Palestinian families are prepared to be arrested at any moment,” said 22-year-old Dania Hanatsheh, who was freed from her second detention as part of the latest exchange. “You feel helpless like you can’t do anything to protect yourself.”

Currently, Israel has more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in its jails, a figure that includes detainees from Gaza, and several thousand arrested in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Israeli legal group HaMoked.

Many prisoners are never told why they were detained. Israel’s “administrative detention” policy allows it to jail people – as it did with Hanatsheh – based on secret evidence, without publicly charging them or ever holding a trial.


Israeli forces besiege, shell house in West Bank’s Qabatiya town

Israeli military vehicles, drones and a bulldozer have pushed into the town of Qabatiya, north of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and raided several homes, our colleagues on the ground report.

Drones and a military helicopter flew over a home, broadcasting orders through loudspeakers for a young man inside to surrender and instructing the rest of the family to evacuate, the report said, citing local Palestinian sources.

The forces then fired at the home, as armed clashes were heard nearby, according to our colleagues.

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have ramped up a military operation in the occupied West Bank, specifically near Jenin, during the Gaza ceasefire, with the self-proclaimed aim of “eradicating terrorism” in the area.


Elderly man shot in Jenin: Report

Israeli forces have shot and injured a 65-year-old man during their ongoing raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. Medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society retrieved the man and brought him to a nearby hospital, Wafa cited the organisation as saying.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces demolished several more homes in the camp located near al-Asir Mosque, according to Wafa. The Jenin raid, now in its fourth day, has killed 12 people and caused dozens of casualties.


At least 22 Palestinians arrested in West Bank: Prisoners’ groups

The Israeli forces have arrested at least 22 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening until this morning, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Former prisoners and a woman were among those arrested across the governorates of Hebron, Tulkarem, Ramallah and Nablus, as well as occupied East Jerusalem, the joint statement said.


Israeli military burns, demolishes homes in Jenin attacks

Local Palestinian outlets have released videos showing how Israeli military forces are destroying structures as part of their huge operation in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp and beyond.

Some of the videos show a house in flames, with large plumes of smoke rising from it. Some local reports said Israeli forces may have detonated an explosive inside, causing the fire.

Footage also showed an Israeli bulldozer demolishing another building.


Israeli forces raid Nablus and Hebron, maintain blockade on Jericho

Israeli armed forces have stormed an area in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

Several suffocation injuries were reported after Israeli soldiers fired sound and smoke bombs, the agency reported.

The Israeli occupation forces continued to close the entrances to the city of Jericho, its villages and camps, and prevented exit through them, for a sixth consecutive day.

Local sources reported to Wafa that the Israeli army caused massive traffic jams and fired sound bombs at the vehicles at the southern entrance, without any injuries being reported.

Heavily armed Israeli soldiers were also seen raiding the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Information Center.