Israeli settlers build new road near Jericho, soldiers raid West Bank
Israeli settlers are building a new illegal road in the Bedouin community of Arab al-Melahat, west of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
A local official told the Wafa news agency that, once completed, the new road and settler movements would mean more confiscation of Palestinian lands and rising tensions.
In the al-Dawha town, west of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers arrested one person after raiding his home. In the village of Husan, near the same area, they stormed the home of the father of a prisoner who was scheduled to be released overnight.
Israeli forces also targeted several towns and villages in Ramallah and el-Bireh, arrested one person and ransacked a restaurant amid ongoing attacks on Nablus.
In a village in the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli authorities notified Palestinians that they must stop working on a barn and a pond. This comes a month after settlers attacked the same village, seizing agricultural equipment.
Translation: The occupation forces raid a house during the storming of Balata al-Balad, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
More Palestinians injured in Jenin amid Israeli attacks on West Bank
We reported earlier that a young Palestinian man was killed and a 14-year-old boy was injured after Israeli soldiers opened fire in Nablus.
A doctor and a young woman have also been wounded by Israeli gunfire today in Jenin city and its camp, according to the Wafa news agency.
It cited the Palestinian Red Crescent Society as confirming that the doctor was shot in the leg in the al-Zahraa neighbourhood of Jenin, while the women was wounded in the refugee camp.
At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured as a result of Israeli military attacks on Jenin after the Gaza ceasefire, which are now on their 38th day.
Several new Israeli raids have also been reported across the occupied West Bank, including an incursion by special forces into the city of Jericho that was accompanied with live fire. Israeli forces hit a neighbourhood in Silwan south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied East Jerusalem as well.
Italian Jews call for end to ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Palestinian territory
Writers, academics, philosophers and journalists are among the 220 signatories of the text, which was published in the daily newspapers La Repubblica and Il Manifesto.
It said Trump “wants to expel Palestinians from Gaza. Meanwhile in the occupied West Bank the violence of the Israeli government and settlers continues.”
“Italian Jews say no to ethnic cleansing. Italy must not be an accomplice,” they added.
The call aims to “bring out a clear and strong Jewish voice of disapproval”, said the Jewish Antiracist Laboratory, a group of young Jewish-origin Italians that is behind the petition.
The organisation said it is “opposed to the annexation of Palestinian territories by Israel and all forms of anti-Semitism”.
