Currently Online 
What is happening in the occupied West Bank?
- In Hebron on Tuesday, the Israeli army killed 17-year-old Muhannad Tariq Muhammad al-Zughair in the Abu Daajan area after the army claimed he was responsible for a car ramming attack.
- In Ramallah, 18-year-old Raslan Asmar was shot and killed near Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, after the army alleged he had stabbed two Israeli soldiers.
- The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that since the war on Gaza began in October 2023, nearly 21,000 Palestinians have been arrested in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces imposed a siege on the villages of Atara, Nabi Saleh, Umm Safa, Beit Rima and Deir Ghassana in northern Ramallah.
- On Tuesday evening, Israeli forces stormed the city of Nablus.
- Israeli forces on Tuesday evening blew up two homes on the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp.
Israeli forces arrest three Palestinians in Bethlehem
Israeli forces have arrested three people, including a former prisoner, from the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported, citing security sources.
Those arrested included Khader Elias Balout, 60, from the city of Beit Jala in the west, Issa Muhammad Al-Harimi, 26, from the Abu Nujaym area southeast of Bethlehem, and released prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Ubayat from the Wadi Abu Fariha area in the east, after raiding and searching their homes.
‘Every aspect’ of life controlled in West Bank
Amid ongoing attacks and demolitions in the occupied West Bank, Guy Shalev, executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, explains that the Israeli government is “committing genocide in Gaza and committing ethnic cleansing and horrendous attacks in the occupied West Bank”.
“I think it is valid to be worried that the mass scale of killings and destruction that we’ve seen in Gaza, we will witness them also, unfortunately, in the occupied West Bank,” Shalev told Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, added that “every aspect” of life in the West Bank is “controlled and violated”.
Firyal Abu Rjeileh, a resident of the village of Attarah in Ramallah, explained that even going to get something for her children from the bookshop, which would normally take a few minutes, now takes hours due to military blockades.
“Time has no value here,” Rjeileh said.
Israeli military helicopter fires on open fields near Qabatiya
An Israeli military helicopter has been seen shooting on open fields near Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank as raids and interrogations continue.
The town of 29,000 people was raided three days ago, with Israeli forces taking over 10 homes and transforming them into military posts. In an escalation yesterday afternoon, soldiers imposed a curfew on residents and started conducting searches, arrests and field interrogations.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, at least 13 Palestinians were arrested during overnight Israeli military raids. In the past two years, the daily raids have nearly quadrupled since the genocide in Gaza began, with an average of 46 such raids every day last month, compared with a dozen two years ago.
Israeli forces prevent journalists from covering operations in Qabatiya
Israeli forces have prevented journalists from covering Israel’s ongoing operations in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Wafa news agency reported that soldiers forced journalists to leave while they were covering the ongoing aggression in the town for a third day.
Israeli forces also beat up a child after storming his house as soldiers continue to raid and search homes in Qabatiya, detaining and interrogating residents.
