Israeli forces impose curfew on Qabatiya amid Jenin-area attacks
Israeli forces have imposed a curfew on the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
The governor of Jenin said in a statement that a 48-hour curfew was announced starting this morning as the Israeli military deployed tanks to Jenin, according to the Wafa news agency.
Israeli soldiers have been destroying infrastructure in Qabatiya with bulldozers since dawn, also damaging Palestinian shops and vehicles.
The Israeli army has also been raiding towns around Jenin, including Silat al-Harithiya. Local online Palestinian platforms have broadcast scenes of Israeli tanks around the city of Jenin. Other scenes show the Israeli occupation pushing military reinforcements towards the towns of al-Yamoun and Silat al-Harithiya.
Israeli military says 26 arrested in occupied West Bank
The Israeli military reports that its soldiers arrested 26 “terrorists” on Saturday during incursions across the occupied West Bank. It said the army, Shin Bet and police forces also conducted field interrogations and confiscated three weapons, showing a rifle and two pistols.
The military confirmed more attacks in Jenin and nearby Qabatiya, Tulkarem and its Nur Shams refugee camp, and Nablus.
Israeli settlers burn Palestinian property in occupied East Jerusalem
Settlers have attacked a Palestinian Bedouin community and set fire to its members’ property in Jaba.
A rights group says Israel’s army and illegal settlers have launched nearly 3,000 attacks on the Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2024.
Israel pursuing demographic shift in West Bank to solidify Jewish dominance
Israel’s goal is to change the demography and geography of the occupied West Bank following the same strategy it pursued in previous wars, says Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University.
“If we look at history in 1948 and 1967, immediately after the war Israel tried to change Palestinian demography to seize maximum territory – it’s doing the same now,” Klein told Al Jazeera. “There is a war and Israel tries to gain some demographic and geographic achievements to further base Jewish supremacy in the region.”
In the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Israeli forces expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land and captured 78 percent of historic Palestine.
And during the 1967 conflict, Israel absorbed the whole of historical Palestine, as well as additional territory from Egypt and Syria. By the end of the war, Israel had expelled another 300,000 Palestinians from their homes.
Which is called Ethnic Cleansing, been going on since 1948.
