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Israeli forces shoot and wound 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have carried out a series of early morning raids across the occupied West Bank. According to the Wafa news agency:

  • Soldiers shot and injured a young man near the separation wall in the town of Beit Ula, near Hebron.
  • Troops arrested a man in the town of Dura, south of Hebron, after searching his home and “severely beating” him and several relatives.
  • Israeli forces detained two people, including a 16-year-old, in the town of Beit Ummar.
  • Soldiers arrested a mother and brother of a Palestinian man whom Israel’s army killed yesterday after accusing him of attempting to carry out an attack on them.
  • Troops arrested a Palestinian man in Nablus.
  • Israeli forces shot and wounded a man at a checkpoint near Qalandiya camp.


Israeli settlers storm Palestinian Bedouin village in West Bank: Report

Israeli settlers have stormed a Bedouin community in the north of the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. A group of settlers entered Khirbet Samra with their vehicles and intimidated residents, local sources told Wafa.

The incident comes amid a surge in Israeli settler violence across the West Bank since Israel began its war on Gaza nearly two years ago.

At least 27 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank were reported in a single week, between September 23 and 29, the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said in its latest update on the situation.

At least one Palestinian was killed in the wave of violence, OCHA said, while three families in the northern Jordan Valley were forced to flee their homes.


What Israeli settler encroachment, intimidation look like in the West Bank

Umm al-Khair, occupied West Bank Every time Yinon Levi returns to Umm al-Khair, where videos and witness testimonies implicate him in the murder of Awdah Hathaleen, anger stirs within the community.

Seeking to prevent further arrests or violence, village leaders urge people to hide in their homes.

But Levi’s appearance leaves villagers, who have long faced home demolitions by Israeli authorities and attacks from Israeli settlers that have intensified since the war in Gaza started, afraid and seething.

Tariq Hathaleen, 31, is a community leader whose eyes are still bloodshot and glossy in grief over his best friend’s murder two months ago.

“Seeing [Levi] makes me sick,” he said in disgust. “Really, it makes me deeply sick.”


Israeli settler Yinon Levi, left, smiling and goading activists filming his sabotage, after destroying Umm al-Khair’s power and water lines in the occupied West Bank