Israeli forces fire on Palestinians during confrontations with Israeli settlers
The Israeli military has carried out several raids and arrests in locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, according to Palestinian media, including:
- The town of Beita, south of Nablus, where Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian youths as they confronted Israeli settlers entering the community.
- The city of Jenin, where Israeli forces have surrounded a house and demanded that a Palestinian man surrender himself.
- Arrests have also been reported in the towns of Nilin and Kobar, near Ramallah; al-Eizariya, southeast of Jerusalem; Azzun, east of Qalqilya; Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron; and Yabad and Ajja, near Jenin.
Israeli settler attacks drive 20 Bedouin families from their homes near West Bank’s Jericho
In the occupied West Bank, repeated attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have driven about 20 Palestinian families from their homes in the Bedouin community of al-Malihat, northwest of Jericho, according to the Wafa news agency.
Hassan Malihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told Wafa that about 20 of the 85 families in the community had begun dismantling their tents, following sustained provocation and attacks by Israeli settlers and the Israeli army.
Footage posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency showed trucks loaded with possessions driving away from the area at night.
Malihat’s group says the attacks threatened to erase the community, and “open the way for illegal colonial expansion”.
Israeli settlers set up tents in Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta
Israeli settlers have reportedly set up tents for the third time in the occupied West Bank village of Susya in Masafer Yatta, southern Hebron, according to the Quds News Network.
Israeli settlers regularly carry out attacks targeting communities in Masafer Yatta – a collection of Palestinian hamlets – while residents there have also been subject to forcible transfer orders by Israeli authorities.
Israeli forces raid parts of West Bank’s Nablus city
Israeli forces have stormed several neighbourhoods in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The Israeli forces entered the Rafidia and Al-Makhfiyya districts of the city and raided two residential buildings there, searching the apartments inside.
Five female Palestinian prisoners subjected to severe assaults in Israeli prison: Media Office
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) has denounced the conditions under which female Palestinian prisoners are held inside northern Israel’s Damon prison.
Five female prisoners, including minors, were subjected to severe assaults, including solitary confinement, threats, verbal insults and spitting, the monitor said.
It also reported cases where the administration used tear gas and police dogs against prisoners or imposed humiliating measures during transfers between cells.
Pregnant prisoners and those suffering from cancer are being detained in rooms lacking most basic sanitary conditions, it added.
