IOF killed 505 Palestinians in West Bank since beginning of 2023
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Of those killed by "Israel" in the West Bank, 111 were reported children.
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Ramallah governor Laila Ghannam carried the body of a 2-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Tamimi in the West Bank on June 5, 2023. (AP)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that the total number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli occupation this year has reached 505 people, including 111 children.
Early on Sunday morning, two Palestinian youths were martyred and others critically injured in the Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli occupation forces conducted a drone strike; additionally, another Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin.
Coinciding with continuous raids on cities and towns of the West Bank, the Israeli occupation has escalated its oppressive actions by heavily employing drone strikes as a means of "policing" the region.
Tulkarm and its refugee camp, which are near the separation line between the West Bank and Israeli occupation settlements on the coast of Palestine, have seen a major share of the Israeli aggression, with dozens of Palestinians killed and injured, civilian infrastructure badly damaged, and hundreds arrested in multiple raids and incursions on the Palestinian governorate.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades' Rapid Response Force, a group local to Tulkarm, announced, on Saturday overnight, that its members will continue to resist invading forces, confirming several ambushes targeting occupation forces in Tulkarm.
On Monday, the force said that its fighters are using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to fend off the occupation's armored vehicles. The rapid growth of Resistance factions in West Bank cities such as Jenin and Tulkarm has triggered an Israeli frenzy, aiming to suppress any organized actions of Resistance from spreading across the West Bank.
Despite targeting and murdering several leaders of the Resistance in Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm since 2021, the organizations that these martyrs established, continue to produce exceptional operations, targeting Israeli occupation forces. These groups have derived the legitimacy to resist, from the Palestinian people, represented in political parties who today announced a general strike in the governate.
'Israel' arrested over 4,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank
In the wake of the resistance operations on October 7, 'Israel' arrested over 4,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank.
Lower estimates from data collected by appropriate organizations suggest that at least 1,000, are from al-Khalil.
Some 150 women have been arrested thus far, both from the West Bank and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948. Additionally, more than 255 children have been arrested.
In terms of journalists detained by the Israeli occupation, there have been 45 recorded cases since October 7, 32 of whom are still incarcerated.
The Israeli occupation since the operation has also issued more than 2,100 administrative detention orders, including new ones and renewals of old ones.
