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More settler attacks reported in West Bank

Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that Israeli settlers set up tents and raised the Israeli flag in the Wadi Abbas area west of the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.

The tents were placed near a well used by farmers to irrigate their crops to stop the farmers from accessing it. Settlers also bulldozed private agricultural land in the Wadi al-Qibli area, adjacent to the Revava settlement.

In a separate incident, the head of the al-Minya Village Council, Zayed Kawazbeh, told Wafa that a group of settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds in the Khalayel al-Qusur area and forced them at gunpoint to leave the area.


Israeli soldiers injure Palestinian children in new West Bank raids

Israeli military forces have wounded several more Palestinians during their latest raids across the occupied West Bank.

Three teenage boys were injured with live bullets during a raid into the Askar al-Jadid refugee camp in the eastern area of Nablus. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said a 16-year-old was shot in the abdomen and hand, another the same age took a bullet to his hand, and a 15-year-old was shot in the thigh.

Two more Palestinians were injured as a result of a direct attack by Israeli forces on citizens at the Anab military checkpoint, east of Tulkarem city, PRCS told the Wafa news agency.

We reported earlier that two Palestinians were killed during earlier raids on Nablus.


‘Dangerous’ rise in number of administrative detainees held by Israel

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Office reports that it has registered a “dangerous increase” in the number of those held under administrative detention in Israeli military prisons.

The latest figure of administrative detainees as of the beginning of July stands at 3,629 people, which the monitor said is the highest number recorded since this type of detention began being used on a wide scale.

Palestinian detainees are stripped of any legal rights under this type of detention, which can be extended for months or even years by Israeli authorities, without providing any sort of strong evidence or access to adequate legal representation.


Administrative detention is a remnant of the British occupation of Mandatory Palestine.

During Mandatory Palestine, administrative detention was used as a legal tool by the British authorities to detain individuals without charge or trial, often based on secret evidence.