Israeli forces kill 1, round up 10 in West Bank raids: Report
Israeli forces carried out a series of familiar overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, killing one person and arresting at least 10, according to the Wafa news agency.
In Tammun town, near Tubas city, special forces shot dead a man and prevented health workers from accessing his body, it reported. Two others were arrested during the hours-long incursion, Wafa said.
Elsewhere, Israeli forces arrested:
- two brothers, aged 13 and 15, in al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem;
- three young men in towns near Ramallah;
- one person in Rujeib town, east of Nablus; and
- a man and his son in the city of Hebron.
Israeli soldiers take part in a raid in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, June 10
Ben-Gvir, Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing local sources, report that Ben-Gvir and Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. They said approximately 100 Israeli police officers were deployed at Islam’s third-holiest site to secure the entry of the Israelis.
After entering the compound, the settlers, who are Israeli citizens living illegally on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, are reported to have performed Talmudic rituals.
The compound is not open for prayers to Jewish people under the long-established status quo, which Israeli settlers and officials have increasingly challenged in recent years.
Hamas mourns PIJ’s senior member killed by Israel
In a statement, Hamas has condemned the Israeli military’s killing of Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s senior member previously jailed by Israel, and promised to keep resisting Israel’s occupation.
“As we mourn the martyred freed prisoner Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat […], we affirm that our people and their resistance will not rest until the occupation is expelled from our land and holy sites,” said Hamas.
It said that Israel’s war in Gaza and deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank “compels us all to unite”.
At least 17,500 Palestinians arrested in West Bank since Gaza war erupted: Monitor
Israel has rounded up and apprehended about 150 people across the occupied West Bank in just the past week alone, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
That brings the total number of Israeli arrests in the occupied West Bank during the war to 17,500, in what the group called a campaign of “collective punishment”. Among those apprehended are 545 women and 1,400 children, it added.
“Arrests have been, and continue to be, the most prominent, consistent and systematic policy employed [by Israel], not only in terms of the number of detainees, but also in terms of the level of crimes committed,” the monitor said.
Israeli forces demolish West Bank home
Israeli bulldozers have torn down a home in the Palestinian town of Kafr ad-Dik in the occupied West Bank, according to footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit. The local municipality condemned the demolition, which it said is “part of a systematic policy targeting Palestinian presence and tightening the noose around our people”.
