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Israeli settlers, soldiers storm another Palestinian village

Earlier, we reported that Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles in the occupied West Bank village of Duma and the town of Khirbet al-Manajim, both south of Nablus.

Israeli settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, have now stormed the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, near Salfit, according to Palestinian activist Ihab Hassan.

Israeli soldiers sealed the village off in the early hours of this morning “under the pretext of [the settlers] visiting religious sites”, Hassan wrote in a post on X.

Kifl Haris is home to a Jewish and Muslim holy site known as Joshua’s Tomb in Judaism and Maqam of Yusha’ ibn Nun in Islam.


Hamas: West Bank settler attacks backed by Israeli government

The Gaza-based group addressed the ongoing Israeli settler attacks in the occupied territory.

  • Settler attacks in the West Bank come within the context of the comprehensive war waged by the occupation against the Palestinian people.
  • The settlers’ aggression and terrorism against our people are carried out with the full support of the occupation government and its army to implement displacement plans.
  • We call for confronting settler attacks in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem through escalating confrontations and resistance.


Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, burn homes: Report

Suleiman Dawabsheh, head of the Duma village council, told Anadolu news agency that dozens of settlers stormed Khirbet al-Marajim, a village in Nablus governorate, and set six houses and a vehicle on fire.

Dawabsheh added the attack caused extensive material losses. Clashes erupted between the villagers and settlers, but no injuries were reported.


Israeli forces suppress peaceful march in West Bank’s Kafr Qaddum

The Israeli army fired sound bombs and tear gas against Palestinians staging a peaceful march for the reopening of the main road in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

The Wafa news agency said no injuries have been reported.

The Israeli military closed the main entrance of the village that connects it to Nablus with a permanent roadblock in 2003.


Young Palestinian killed following Israeli raid near Nablus

A young Palestinian man died after being wounded in an Israeli army raid in Salem, a town east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, Wafa reports, quoting local sources.

Amer Dawoud Shtayyeh, 21, was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after, the agency said.

Sources told Wafa that Israeli forces stormed the town, triggering confrontations.

Soldiers fired barrages of live ammunition and tear gas canisters, critically wounding a 21-year-old in the head, the agency said. They also briefly detained a minor.


Settlers fire live ammunition, use tear gas in attack on West Bank village: Residents

Israeli settlers, who took part in a previously reported attack on the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Marajim in the occupied West Bank, burned down three houses and a number of cars.

Local residents told the Reuters news agency they fired live ammunition and hurled tear gas bombs at people trying to put out the flames in the latest in a series of raids that have surged during the war on Gaza.

CCTV footage showed masked individuals entering Palestinians’ property, throwing objects around and destroying a security camera.

“They climbed on top of the house and started to throw stones,” resident Maysoom Msalam told the agency. “They broke the door and the windows. Then they burnt this door and entered and set fire inside the house.”

Ghassan Daghlas, governor of the nearby city of Nablus, dismissed suggestions that Palestinians had provoked the attack. “This is an attack aimed at expelling citizens from their lands by settlers, a project to displace Palestinians from their lands,” he told Reuters.


Israel arrests two Palestinian teenagers in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces detained two Palestinian teenagers tonight after chasing their vehicle in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports, citing a local official.

Ra’ed Hamed, the mayor of Silwad, told Wafa that an Israeli military unit stormed the town, pursued a vehicle and deliberately rammed it before detaining the two teenagers, both aged 16.


Israeli forces kill Palestinian in east of Nablus

A young man has died of critical injuries sustained when Israeli forces shot him in the head during a raid on the town of Salem in the occupied West Bank’s Nablus, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The ministry reported that 21-year-old Omar Shtayyeh died of his wounds at the hospital.