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Israeli military kills Palestinian teenager, wounds man during raids on occupied West Bank
Israel has continued carrying out raids across the occupied West Bank overnight, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa and other local outlets report.
- The Israeli military shot and killed a 15-year-old child during a raid on the village of Shabtin, northwest of Ramallah, during a raid overnight. The head of the village council told Wafa the killing was unprovoked and the teenager was rushed to hospital with five gunshot wounds to his legs.
- A 37-year-old man was shot in the thigh by the Israeli military during a raid on the village of Shuqba, northwest of Ramallah. Local sources told Wafa that soldiers forced Palestinian residents from their homes and shops to conduct searches, and vandalised vehicles in the village.
- A Palestinian man and a woman have been injured when an Israeli military vehicle rammed their car during a raid in the city of Tulkarem. Local sources said the military vehicle was driving at high speed and in the wrong direction when it collided with the couple’s car. The couple were rushed to hospital with moderate injuries.
- Two children were assaulted by the Israeli military during a raid on Khirbet Yarza east of Tubas. Local sources said the two brothers were arrested along with the family during the raid.
- Israeli forces sealed off the Beit Iksa checkpoint, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, and Israeli military forces at a checkpoint at the entrance to Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah, fired tear gas at a vehicle, according to witnesses.
Israeli military deploys extra battalions to the West Bank
We have been reporting on Israel’s response to the suspected “terror” attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has called for an “intensive” counterterrorism operation in the occupied West Bank following the bus bombings. The Israeli military has now announced that it has deployed three extra units to its “Central Command”, which is responsible for Israeli forces in the West Bank.
“The [Israeli military] continues to conduct an ongoing situation assessment and prepares to expand offensive activity. The operation to thwart terrorism in northern Samaria continues at all times,” it said, using the Hebrew name for the West Bank.
The Israeli military has already been carrying out a weeks-long, large-scale assault on several areas of the West Bank, including refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams.
Rising Israeli violence having ‘devastating impact’ on West Bank children: IRC
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has released a statement in which it says at least 224 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since January 2023, accounting for half of all child fatalities in the West Bank since UN records began in 2005.
“This surge in violence is causing profound trauma and preventing IRC and partners from responding to meet mounting needs in Jenin, one of the worst-hit areas,” the statement said.
In Jenin, the IRC said it had been “working to support crisis-affected children by adapting classrooms and equipping educators to address trauma” in partnership with the Palestinian organisation Teacher Creativity Center (TCC).
However, it said, “Ongoing military operations, including airstrikes”, have made it nearly impossible to safely deliver these vital services.
“Since January this year, the IRC and TCC have been forced to suspend education activities in Jenin City, leaving 200 children without essential socio-emotional learning,” it said.
Until it is safe enough for the IRC and TCC to resume work in Jenin, these services have been relocated to Ramallah, where conditions are “somewhat more stable, but children remain exposed to routine military and settler violence”, it said.
Children walk past a damaged car along a street that was bulldozed by Israeli troops in an eastern neighbourhood of the West Bank city of Jenin
Palestinian ex-prisoner recounts beating in front of Red Cross
Yousef al-Mabhouh has said he was beaten until the last moment before he was released from an Israeli prison, according to an interview conducted by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office.
“They beat us in the presence of the Red Cross, until the last moment before our release,” he said. “And I promised the officer that I would return, but not as a prisoner.”
