What’s happening in the occupied West Bank?
- Troops opened fire indiscriminately during a raid in the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin.
- Israeli forces also stormed the al-Far’a camp south of Tubas last night.
- Three children who were arrested during an incursion in the town of Salem were released by Israeli troops.
- Israeli forces raided a residential building near the entrance to Askar al-Jadeed refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli forces also stormed the centre of Jenin.
- Soldiers fired a flare grenade at Jabal an-Nasr in the Nur Shams camp.
Israeli settlers blocking Palestinians’ access to olive groves near Nablus: Report
Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports new attacks on olive farmers in the village of Burin, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. According to the agency, Israeli forces and settlers are pushing Palestinian farmers out of their olive groves in the area.
The report speaks to growing pressure on Palestinian olive farmers, whose harvest season is facing more damage from settler attacks this year than any year since 2020, according to an assessment by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Yesterday, OCHA reported “Israeli settlers from newly established settlement outposts in the West Bank have increasingly imposed restrictions on Palestinians’ access to their olive groves, including in areas that were previously accessible without ‘prior coordination’ with Israeli authorities.”
Israeli forces arrest 6 Palestinians in new West Bank raids
Israeli soldiers have carried out arrests while raiding the towns of Yabad and Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports. Troops detained three people, including two brothers in Yabad, and three brothers from Qabatiya.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces also put up a new military checkpoint in the town of Turmus Aya, near Ramallah, and sealed off the western entrance to the village of al-Mughayyir, Wafa said.
Israeli settlers wound 3 Palestinians with gunfire near Bethlehem
Israeli settlers have carried out another attack in the occupied West Bank, this time in the village of al-Maniya, near Bethlehem. According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, a group of settlers shot at and injured three people in the village.
The agency quoted village council head Zayed Kawazbeh as saying the perpetrators of the shooting were shielded by Israeli forces in the area. The settlers fired gunshots directly at Palestinians near al-Maniya, wounding three in the lower body, said Kawazbheh, adding that the injured were hospitalised.
