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Israeli soldiers force Palestinians to leave their homes in West Bank’s Jenin


Paramedics help a Palestinian woman carry her belongings as an Israeli soldier enforces a displacement order on a house in the Jenin refugee camp, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday


Israeli forces detain over 30, including children, in occupied West Bank raids

More than 30 people, including two children aged nine, have been arrested in Israeli army dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says.

The raids took place in Bethlehem, Salfit, Jerusalem, Qalqilya, Hebron, Nablus and the Balata refugee camp on the latter city’s outskirts, according to the group.

Former prisoners were among those arrested.


Israeli forces place mobile housing units in Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron

Israeli forces have helped transport mobile housing units on to an empty plot of land in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. The trucks transporting the housing units were accompanied by Israeli military vehicles.

Issa Amro, coordinator of the Youth Against Settlements group, has told Al Jazeera that the mobile housing units were placed in territory designated H1 – referring to the section of Hebron that is under the civil and security control of the Palestinian Authority.

He said this was the first time this had happened in Hebron, adding that it was a dangerous development.


Israel receives bulldozers from US held up by Biden administration over Gaza: Report

Dozens of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and other equipment has arrived in Israel from the US after months of delays, according to Israel’s Defence Ministry cited by the Times of Israel newspaper. The report said the shipment for the Israeli army’s ground forces was received at Haifa Port.

In November last year, it was reported that the Biden administration was holding up the sale of the D9 bulldozers due to the Israeli military’s use of them to raze homes in Gaza, the newspaper said.


US denounced for providing Israel ‘machines of destruction’

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the reported delivery of dozens of US bulldozers to the Israeli military as it attacks Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“The Trump administration must stop using American taxpayer dollars, American weapons and American equipment to fund the Israeli government’s literal destruction of Palestinian life,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s national deputy director, in a statement.

“Sending bulldozers that will be used to destroy more Palestinian homes and steal more Palestinian land deepens our nation’s moral and legal culpability in the Israeli occupation’s crimes.

“These machines are not tools of construction – they are tools of destruction, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.”


Israeli military bulldozers destroy a road at the Jenin refugee camp