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Israeli forces make more West Bank arrests
The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting another round of Israeli raids and arrests in the occupied West Bank. During their latest incursions, it reports that Israeli forces:
- Arrested five people in towns near Hebron.
- Arrested five people, including a local leader of the Fatah movement, in the Salfit area, and confiscated money and jewellery from another man’s home.
- Set up a military checkpoint and searched vehicles in the town of Beit Dajan, near Nablus.
- Arrested one person in Bethlehem.
Israeli forces shoot, injure two Palestinians while storming Jalazone camp: Report
Israeli forces fired live bullets while storming Jalazone camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
The shots hit and injured two young men in the camp, the agency said, describing their condition as “stable”.
Meanwhile, to the north of Ramallah, a group of settlers blocked off an entrance to the Palestinian town of Deir Jarir and stopped residents from passing through, according to Wafa.
MSF warns Palestinians in West Bank face ‘risk of ethnic cleansing’
Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym MSF) says Palestinians in the occupied West Bank face a campaign of forced mass displacement by Israeli soldiers and settlers that “significantly” increases the risk of ethnic cleansing.
The group said that, so far this year, its teams have “witnessed policies and practices that are blatantly designed to remove people from their land and prevent any possibility of return”.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced in Israeli military operations; Palestinian homes are routinely demolished; surging Israeli settler violence “continues with impunity”, and movement restrictions and loss of land and work permits make it impossible for Palestinians to sustain themselves, MSF said.
“Over the past few years, we have seen the impact of the Israeli forces and settlers exerting increased force and control over the Palestinian people – culminating in a genocide in Gaza, and military repression and settler violence escalating across the West Bank,” Simona Onidi, MSF’s project coordinator in Jenin and Tulkarem, said in a statement.
“These actions are entrenched in the broader settler-colonial process, where the risk of ethnic cleansing – through the forced removal of Palestinian communities – will cement permanent demographic change.”
