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Children among 8 wounded in Nablus, Israeli forces shoot 2 near Jerusalem

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had wounded at least six Palestinians during an incursion into the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

The Wafa news agency now reports that at least eight Palestinians, including four children, have been confirmed wounded by Israeli gunfire during that raid. Israeli forces have now withdrawn from the city after besieging a house and arresting a man.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has also said that it has transferred two men to hospital with gunshot wounds after Israeli forces raided the towns of Qalandiya and ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

The severity of their condition is not currently known.


Israel arrests director of Palestinian organisation monitoring illegal settlements

Israeli forces have stormed the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and raided the home of Murad Shteiwi, director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC), according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The CWRC is a Palestinian governmental commission affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization, tasked with documenting Israel’s illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and providing legal protection to Palestinians who have had their land taken by Israeli authorities and settlers.

Israeli forces previously arrested Shteiwi in 2014 for organising and participating in “illegal” demonstrations against Israel’s settlements.


Israeli forces arrest 4 people across Nablus, Qalqilya

Sources told the Wafa news agency that several military vehicles stormed the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, and raided a house on Tunis Street. Soldiers searched the premises, ransacked them and arrested the resident, Murad Imad al-Din Darwaza.

According to the sources, Israeli forces also raided a building in the Rafidia area. At the same time, in Qalqilya, local sources told Wafa that troops stormed the city at dawn from its eastern entrance after being deployed in the Kafr Saba neighbourhood.

Israeli forces raided many homes, including those of Bahjat Yamin, Baraa Hammad and Moatasem al-Baz, who were arrested.


Israeli forces demolish home in West Bank’s al-Mughayyir

Israeli forces have demolished a home in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

The head of the village council, Amin Abu Aliya, told Wafa that soldiers stormed the village this morning and demolished a two-storey house, owned by Wajih Musa Abu Aliya, that was under construction under the pretext of building without a permit.

Al Jazeera has verified footage circulating on social media of Israeli forces using an excavator to demolish the building.