'Israel' kills Palestinian youth in Areeha amid intensified raids
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Raids, arrests, and land seizures escalate across Nablus, Beit Lahm, Qalqilya, and the Jordan Valley.
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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian activist Awdah Al Hathaleen, who was killed by Israeli settlers, during his funeral in the West Bank Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 (AP)
A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli occupation forces' gunfire in Areeha, while raids and arrests were carried out in Nablus, Beit Lahm, and Qalqilya. Meanwhile, settlers continue to fence off land in the Jordan Valley to seize it, amid increasing efforts to establish new settlement outposts.
Palestinian youth Abdullah Atiyat succumbed to his wounds this Sunday morning after being shot by Israeli occupation forces during their raid in the city of Areeha in the eastern West Bank. Israeli forces raided several neighborhoods in the city, firing live ammunition, which struck the young man in the upper body. He was rushed to the hospital but later died from his wounds.
Meanwhile, in the early hours, Israeli forces raided the village of Jalud, south of Qalqilya, searching several homes before withdrawing without making any arrests.
Israeli forces also carried out raids and arrests across Nablus, targeting the city's eastern district, the Balata refugee camp, and the village of Burqa, detaining four Palestinians, including a young woman, after surrounding a Palestinian vehicle, forcing its passengers out at gunpoint, and seizing the car.
In Beit Lahm, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian man and his son in the town of Hindaza, while also assaulting the detainee's other son, Dr. Walid Abiyat, during an early morning raid on the family's homes.
Israeli settlers use grazing as displacement tool
In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers continued their months-long campaign to seize grazing lands near the residential tents of Palestinian citizens in the Ein Ghazal-Farasya area, installing iron markers and barbed wire fences as part of their ongoing efforts to block farmers from accessing hundreds of dunams of agricultural land.
This comes as settlers attempted to establish 15 new settlement outposts during July, predominantly agricultural and pastoral, including five in al-Khalil, two each in Salfit, Beit Lahm, Ramallah, and Areeha, and one each in Tubas and Jenin.
On August 4, in the southern Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank, an armed settler deliberately grazed his flock near Palestinian homes in Shuaib al-Batm, part of the Masafer Yatta region.
On the same day, settlers released their livestock near Palestinian homes in the al-Auja Spring area northeast of Areeha in the eastern West Bank, while other settlers attacked a house in Turmus'ayya north of Ramallah during pre-dawn hours, attempting to set the property ablaze.
