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Israel raids several occupied West Bank towns after killing Hebron youth
Israeli forces have detained dozens of people after storming several areas across the occupied West Bank, including the home of a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem.
The latest raids early on Thursday come as Israeli settlers stormed Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, a gravesite believed to be the burial place of Joseph, the father of Jesus, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
At about dawn, the Israeli army deployed several military vehicles and soldiers as they targeted the towns of Attil and Deir al-Ghusun north of Tulkarem, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, quoting residents from the area.
In ad-Dhahiriya village on the outskirts of Hebron on Wednesday, residents buried a Palestinian youth, who was killed the previous night in a raid by the Israeli security forces.
Meanwhile, some Israeli troops were deployed to Nablus to secure the Christian holy site, Joseph’s Tomb, after it was reportedly stormed by Israeli settlers. According to Al Jazeera Arabic, members of the Knesset and settler leaders were among those involved in the storming of the burial ground until early on Thursday.
In recent days, Israeli settlers were also accused of arson in three villages in Masafer Yatta.
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.
Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
“TikTok deleted my account. I had 1.4 million followers there, and I have been building that platform for four years,” Owda said in the video filmed from Gaza. “I expected that it will be restricted, like every time, not banned forever,” she added.
Al Jazeera sent a query to TikTok inquiring about Owda’s account.
Hours after Owda shared her video, an account that appeared to have the same username was still visible on TikTok in Australia – but not in the Middle East, when Al Jazeera checked in different geographies.
In her video on Wednesday, Owda pointed to recent remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Adam Presser, the new CEO of TikTok’s US arm, as a possible explanation for the ban.
Note, I have NO TikTok accounts
anymore! Don't be scammed !! !!
Watch this.@AbubakerAbedW @AbujomaaGaza pic.twitter.com/DdYoQvIPLh
— Bisan owda (@bisan__bisan) January 28, 2026
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
TikTok announced last week that a deal to establish a separate version of the platform in the US had been completed, with the new entity controlled by investment firms, many of which are US companies, including several linked to President Donald Trump.
Owda also shared an undated video of Adam Presser, the new CEO of TikTok’s US arm. In the video, Presser speaks about changes made at TikTok, where he previously worked as head of operations in the US, saying “the use of the term Zionist as a proxy for a protected attribute” had been designated “as hate speech”.
TikTok is banning any criticism of ICE as well
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec
