Israeli forces raid Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank
Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campus and classrooms.
Israeli Soldiers Detain, Intimidate Palestinian Toddler during Curfew in Hebron
Israeli soldiers detained and intimidated a two-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian boy in Hebron.
Video footage shared by Voice of Palestine Radio shows a two-and-a-half-year-old boy standing pressed against a wall beside a stairway leading to a residential building in the Makbarat Al-Ras neighborhood. The child appears visibly distressed as a male and a female Israeli soldier stand a short distance away in a firing stance, aiming their weapons in his direction.
Areej al-Jaabari, a Palestinian human rights activist who recorded the incident, told Anadolu news agency that the child was held in place for more than 15 minutes. According to al-Jaabari, the toddler had stepped out of his home to cross the street to a nearby shop, unaware that strict security measures were in force in the area.
She said the neighborhood had been placed under a full curfew from Friday evening through Saturday, the weekly day off for Israeli settlers, a practice imposed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023. Because the child crossed the street in violation of these restrictions, he was detained and intimidated “like any other resident would be, including the elderly or the sick,” al-Jaabari said.
Five-storey building damaged during war collapses in central Gaza
At least two people have been killed after a five-storey building collapsed in central Gaza. The building was damaged during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, but many returned to live there because they had nowhere else to stay.
Israel kills two in Gaza as Palestinians call for Rafah crossing to open
Israel has launched intense artillery and helicopter attacks on southern Gaza despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, bombing a tent housing displaced Palestinians and killing a five-year-old girl and her uncle, according to officials.
The killings on Monday brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the truce came into effect in October to at least 422, according to Gaza health authorities.
The Nasser Medical Complex in southern Khan Younis said the deadly Israeli strike hit a tent in the coastal al-Mawasi area, and that four others, including children, were also wounded.
Israel’s military said it struck a Hamas fighter who was planning to attack Israeli forces “in the immediate timeframe”. But the military did not provide evidence for the claim, and it was not clear if its statement referred to the tent attack.
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli forces have continued near-daily attacks on Gaza and have maintained restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid. Much of the enclave has been devastated by Israel’s genocidal war, with roughly 88 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed, Palestinian officials say. Most of Gaza’s two million people are now living in tents, makeshift shelters or damaged buildings in areas vacated by Israeli troops.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said on Monday that another Palestinian home damaged in earlier Israeli strikes collapsed in the central Maghazi camp, killing a 29-year-old father and his eight-year-old son. The rescue service said in a subsequent statement that it was unable to respond to requests to remove hazards caused by damaged buildings because of a lack of equipment and continuing fuel shortages.
