Israeli forces bulldoze restaurant, fire stun grenades in West Bank raids: Report
Israeli forces have carried out a familiar wave of overnight raids in the occupied West Bank. According to the Wafa news agency, they:
- Searched residents’ vehicles and fired stun grenades in the city of ad-Dhahiriya, near Hebron
- Severely beat a young man in the town of Idhna, also near Hebron
- Clashed with local residents while storming the Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem
- Arrested a young man in the Askar refugee camp, near Nablus
- Bulldozed part of a restaurant located in the town of ar-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem.
Israeli forces arrest 15 more Palestinians in latest West Bank raids: Report
Israeli forces have continued rounding up Palestinians during their early-morning raids in the occupied territory.
During their latest operations, they apprehended six people from various towns in the governorate of Hebron, two young men from the town of Beit Fajjar in the Bethlehem governorate, and seven people, including a 14-year-old boy, from across the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate, according to the Wafa news agency.
Israel constructs new bypass road in occupied West Bank
Palestinians protest against Israeli bypass road infrastructure in their lands, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 29
Israeli settlers chase away Palestinian shepherds, cut trees in West Bank: Report
Israeli settlers have carried out further aggressive actions against Palestinians and their lands in the occupied West Bank, chasing away shepherds tending their flocks and cutting down trees, according to the Wafa news agency. The report said the latest settler attack came in the area surrounding al-Farisiyah village in the northern Jordan Valley.
In a separate incident, settlers cut down trees on Palestinian land in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, local sources told Al Jazeera.
Gaza Health Ministry says 361 Palestinian medics held in Israeli jails
At least 361 medical personnel are currently detained in Israeli prisons, Gaza’s Health Ministry says in a statement. It said the medics had been “forcibly disappeared in detention centres, and the occupation prevents human rights organisations from monitoring their conditions”.
The little information available on their health suggests they are enduring “catastrophic conditions” and “abuse”, it added.
