Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmland in the West Bank
Footage published by the Palestinian Information Center shows a Star of David and Hebrew graffiti scrawled on a wall in the Abu Shaban area, east of Yatta in the Hebron governorate, as a fire burns in a farmhouse.
The attack comes as the Israeli military substantially increased its presence in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, including deploying tanks for the first time since 2005.
West Bank town left in ruins as Israeli forces destroy intersection
Footage published by the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center shows destruction wrought by Israeli forces tonight after they stormed the town of Burqin, west of Jenin, and destroyed a key intersection.
The Israeli military deployed heavy machinery to Burqin, where they were recorded digging up roads at the al-Abarah roundabout, leaving large mounds of dirt behind and the intersection unusable.
Translation: The effects of the occupation bulldozers’ destruction of the infrastructure surrounding the Al-Abarah roundabout during the storming of the town of Burqin, west of Jenin.
Mustafa Barghouti says Israel pushing towards ‘full-scale war’ in Gaza, West Bank
The secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative says Israeli escalation in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza is “threatening to drive the situation into a full-scale war”.
Mustafa Barghouti said the presence of Israeli tanks alongside its largest military presence since 2002 means that “practically, Israel is reinvading the West Bank and re-establishing full military occupation, completely marginalising the Palestinian Authority and its presence”.
Barghouti also said that by refusing to release more than 600 Palestinians in an exchange deal on Saturday, Israel has also committed a “very grave violation of the ceasefire agreement”.
“It could mean that Israel is preparing to go back to full-scale war in Gaza … which has been subjected already to genocide, collective punishment, and ethnic cleansing,” he said.
“If Netanyahu is allowed to continue with the invasions in the West Bank and blocking the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, that could mean the end of the two-state solution forever,” he added.
Tanks flying Israeli flags roll into West Bank’s Jenin
Some Palestinians threw stones as Israeli tanks were seen in the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than two decades.
