Israeli soldiers launch violent raids across occupied West Bank
Israeli forces launched a series of raids in several areas of the occupied West Bank over the night and this morning, according to local sources and the Wafa news agency.
- Israeli soldiers stormed the city of Tubas and the town of Tammun.
- They raided the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, entering the home of a child who was previously killed by occupation authorities.
- A young Palestinian man was shot and wounded in the knee in occupied East Jerusalem’s ar-Ram, hours after another man was shot in the leg and taken to hospital in the same area.
- More raids were reported in the towns of Jenin, Ramallah and Nablus.
Translation: The occupation forces arrested the young man Basem al-Qutob after raiding his home in the Rafidia neighbourhood of Nablus.
Israel to demolish 25 homes in occupied West Bank’s Nur Shams camp
The Israeli military will demolish 25 residential buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp this week, according to local authorities.
Abdallah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem governorate where Nur Shams is located, told the AFP news agency that he was informed of the planned demolition by the Israeli Defense Ministry body COGAT.
Faisal Salama, the head of the popular committee for the Tulkarem camp, near Nur Shams, said the demolition order would affect 100 family homes.
Palestinians survey a destroyed pavement after an Israeli raid in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem, on March 4
Israeli settlers wound five members of Palestinian family in Jericho
Violent Israeli settlers wounded five members of a Palestinian family, including children, in an overnight attack on the al-Auja area near the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated parents and their three girls at the scene before transporting them to a hospital, after they were attacked by Israeli settlers who stormed the area while Israeli soldiers were raiding the city centre at dawn.
Witnesses quoted by the Wafa news agency said six Israeli military vehicles were deployed to attack a house in Jericho, with soldiers firing stun grenades in the street. At least one person was arrested.
