IOF raid West Bank and detain Al-Najah University students
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Israeli occupation forces storm the West Bank and injure two Palestinians as confrontations erupt in Qalqilya.
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An image of the vehicle owned by a Palestinian in the West Bank that was set on fire by Israeli occupation settlers on January 15, 2024. (Social media)
Two Palestinians have been injured by Israeli occupation forces fire earlier this morning during an incursion into the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians confronted the IOF troops storming the city and intense confrontations broke out. Among the reinforcements of the Israeli occupation's raiding force were military bulldozers that demolished two houses in the city. Specifically, the occupation demolished the home of liberated prisoner Saleh Abu Saleh, as well as the home of the liberated prisoner Bassam Yassin located in the Marj area of the city.
جانب من اقتحام قوات من جيش الإحتلال الإسرائيلي منطقة المرج بمدينة قلقيلية #الميادين #فلسطين #غزة #طوفان_الأقصى pic.twitter.com/DcurALEOkU
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) January 14, 2024
Israeli forces also stormed a house belonging to Saeed Yassin and destroyed the family's belongings inside.
IOF detain university students protesting
The Israeli incursions into the West Bank, this morning, extended to the Ein al-Sultan camp in Ariha and the historic campus of Al-Najah National University in Nablus.
In the university, several students had been protesting for about 26 days when the IOF broke in and detained all students according to Al Mayadeen sources.
After a sit-in that lasted for 26 days...
— Palestine Captives 𓂆 (@Palestinecapti1) January 15, 2024
The occupation forces abducted all of them.
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل.. pic.twitter.com/ETPS1XxAAC
Local sources underscored that everyone taking part in the peaceful sit-in was detained, including the head of the student union.
In a related context, settlers attacked a vehicle owned by a Palestinian as it entered the outskirts of the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
ميليشيات المستوطنون يهاجمون ويحرقون ممتلكات الفلسطينيين بعد هجوم على أطراف قرية بورين جنوب نابلس شمال الضفة الغربية. pic.twitter.com/WH5E1ml7fR
— جَفرَا الحُب والثَورة 🇵🇸 𓂆 (@jafra_ps) January 15, 2024
IOF kill 2 Palestinian children in West Bank; one-day toll rises to 5
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that two children were martyred after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in the city of al-Bireh, northern Ramallah, raising the number of children killed by IOF on Sunday to three.
Suleiman Mohammed Suleiman Kanaan (17 years old) and Khaled Amer Hmeidat (16 years old) were killed by IOF on Sunday evening near the Jalazone refugee camp north of the city of al-Bireh.
BREAKING| Israeli forces have killed the children Suleiman Kanaan and Khaled Humeidat at the entrance to Al Bireh city in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/5TdB7xg3fX
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 14, 2024
The Ministry of Health stated that Kanaan succumbed to his wounds upon arrival at the Arab Consultative Hospital due to a live bullet wound to the heart.
Meanwhile, the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of Health of the martyrdom of Hmeidat, noting that his body was detained by the Israeli occupation.
Kanaan is from the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied al-Quds, and a resident of the town of Birzeit, while Khaled Hmeidat is from the Jalazone refugee camp.
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourned the two martyrs. The Ministry of Education also mourned them, noting that Kanaan was a 12th grader and Hmeidat was in the 11th grade.
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