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Israeli forces injure hundreds of Palestinians in raids on Tubas, West Bank

Israeli forces have wounded more than 200 Palestinians in raids on the West Bank governorate of Tubas, as a major offensive on northern parts of the occupied territory that began on Wednesday continues to inflict widespread destruction.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told Al Jazeera that 78 of the people wounded in Israeli attacks on Tubas since Wednesday required treatment in hospital.

After withdrawing from Tammun and Far’a refugee camp on Friday, Israeli soldiers have shifted the focus of raids to the city of Tubas, as well as the nearby villages of Aqqaba and Tayaseer.

Local officials said Israeli forces have detained nearly 200 Palestinians in the past four days. Most were interrogated on site and let go, but at least eight people were arrested and taken to Israeli military jails.

At least nine Palestinians were detained in other military raids in Qalqilya, Jenin and Nablus. The Wafa news agency quoted local sources as saying on Saturday that two children and a woman were among five arrested at dawn in Qalqilya.

PRCS also said 10 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli settler attack near the village of Khalayel al-Louz, east of Bethlehem, Wafa reported. Of those, one person was shot in the thigh and three others were beaten and taken to hospital.

Violent raids by Israeli soldiers and attacks by armed settlers have escalated since October 2023, with 47 army incursions taking place on average every day across the occupied West Bank in November.

The mayor of Tammun told Al Jazeera that while the town in the Tubas governorate was subject to dozens of raids in the past couple of years, the ones this week were the worst in terms of scale, destruction and violence.

He said that more than 1.5km (one mile) of roads have been torn up, water networks destroyed, private property vandalised and people severely beaten, repeating the pattern of other major Israeli military attacks across the occupied West Bank.



CNN couldn't ignore the field executions, but takes a big defensive stance for the IDF

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/middleeast/jenin-west-bank-israeli-military-men-killed-intl-latam

Nahari said that his clients genuinely believed their lives were in danger, and that the Border Police had commanded the suspects to remove their clothes to ensure that they were not armed, but they did not comply.The lawyer added that “the shooting was conducted merely for the sake of neutralizing them and not with the intention to kill.”

Yeah that's why the bulldozer dropped the garage door on top of them after 'neutralizing' the unarmed suspects.

The actual story doesn't appear in the article until 11 paragraphs and 3 commercials down the page. Of course also never mentioning armed resistance against occupation is a right under international law:

Armed resistance against an occupying power is primarily governed by the laws of occupation, particularly the 1907 Hague Regulations and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. Additional Protocol I (1977) to the Geneva Conventions expanded this by explicitly recognizing the right of peoples fighting against colonial domination and foreign occupation to use armed struggle, including through national liberation movements.

The ICJ made it very clear last year https://www.icj-cij.org/node/204176 Israel's occupation of the West Bank is illegal in every way.

But keep calling them terrorists...