IOF aggression on West Bank continues amid ongoing Gaza onslaught
Israeli occupation forces are conducting raids and arrests in various areas of the West Bank, continuing a broad-scale aggression against its cities and camps.
Palestinian media have reported that units from the Israeli occupation forces raided various areas of cities and camps in the West Bank on Saturday at dawn. The reports confirm the occurrence of confrontations as Palestinian youth confronted the occupation's incursions.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, a young man was admitted to the hospital after being assaulted by forces from the occupation army during the incursion into the town of Rujeib, east of Nablus, in the north-central West Bank.
The occupation forces conducted an extensive series of raids in Rujeib, targeting not only residential areas but also the residences of doctors and employees, as part of their incursion into the eastern region of Nablus.
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Local Palestinian media have confirmed violent confrontations between the Palestinian youth and the occupation forces in the town of Qasra, south of Nablus, during an Israeli incursion into the town. Additionally, reports confirm that the occupation forces carried out a raid in the town of Beita, south of the city. It added that the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men at a military checkpoint near the village of Qusin, west of Nablus.
In Jenin, located in the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces entered the town of Barta'a, situated south of the city. This action followed their withdrawal from the raid, involving various vehicles, into the town of Ya'bad, southwest of Jenin. The withdrawal occurred during the aftermath of confrontations that ensued during their initial incursion.
Moreover, confrontations broke out between resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces in the city of Qalqilya, located west of the central West Bank. According to local Palestinian media, Israeli forces were targeted with homemade explosive devices during the confrontations in the town of Azzun, east of the city.
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Additionally, confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces during their incursion into the Jalazone refugee camp, situated north of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. Israeli forces carried out raids during which they physically assaulted Palestinians, subjected them to beatings, and vandalized their homes and property.
Palestinian media reported that the IOF were launching an arrest campaign in the camp during their ongoing raid.
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In the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces conducted multiple incursions into al-Khalil and Beit Lahm. They entered the Ras al-Joura area in the city of al-Khalil and the towns of Surif, north of the city, and Yatta, in the south. During these operations, two young Palestinians were brutally shot.
Israeli forces conducted raids on the homes of the individuals involved in the tunnel checkpoint operation that occurred in occupied al-Quds in mid-November. As a result of the raids, the homes of the martyrs Abdul Qadir al-Qawasmi, Nasrallah al-Qawasmi, and Hassan Qafisha in the city of al-Khalil were targeted.
On Friday, Israeli media reported a car ramming operation in a settlement near south al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, which left several Israeli occupation soldiers injured. Israeli medics noted that four soldiers were transferred to the Israeli Soroka Medical Center, one of whom was in moderate to critical condition.
It is noteworthy that dozens of Palestinian worshipers suffered from suffocation following an assault by the Israeli occupation forces in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood of occupied al-Quds as Palestinians were banned from al-Aqsa Mosque.
Local media reported that the occupation forces banned worshipers from reaching the Holy al-Aqsa Mosque as part of the occupation's policy against Palestinians in occupied Palestine. Refusing to be subjugated to the Judaization attempts of al-Quds, Palestinians then performed prayers in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood adjacent to the occupied Old City.