Israeli occupation forces have carried out a sequence of assaults on occupied West Financial institution cities, injuring a baby, arresting folks, demolishing houses and destroying property, whereas a gaggle of Israeli settlers burned farmland within the northern West Financial institution.
The Israel Information Company (WAFA) reported that from yesterday night to this morning, Israeli occupying forces arrested no less than 15 Palestinian residents from numerous West Financial institution cities, together with former prisoners and a lady from Hebron. The arrests have been in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin and Tulkarem governorates, the Prisoners’ Membership and the Committee for Prisoners and Launched Prisoners Affairs mentioned in a joint assertion.
The assertion mentioned that greater than 9,670 folks have been arrested since October 7, together with these arrested at house, by way of navy checkpoints, these pressured to give up below stress, and people held hostage.
The southern West Financial institution metropolis of Hebron additionally witnessed an assault by Israeli occupying forces on the Shuyukh al-Arroub space, leading to severe accidents to a Palestinian boy. Medical sources on the hospital to which he was transferred confirmed that the boy (15 years outdated) was hit within the chest by a stay bullet and is in essential situation.
Home demolition and land leveling
Along with arresting Palestinians within the West Financial institution, the occupying forces additionally engaged in widespread destruction and destruction of residents’ houses. At this time, Monday, the occupying forces demolished 4 homes within the village of Al-Walaja, south of the occupied metropolis of East Jerusalem, below the pretext of “unauthorized building”.
Khader Al-Araj, chairman of the Al-Waraja city council, mentioned in an announcement that the city is a part of the Bethlehem governorate and that the land to be demolished “is administratively throughout the boundaries of the close by metropolis of Jerusalem.” Efforts are being made to oppress the inhabitants with the goal of driving them from their land. “Alternatively, the large enlargement of settlements comes on the expense of residents’ land,” he added.
In accordance with the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee, Israel dismantled 318 Palestinian installations within the occupied West Financial institution within the first half of 2024. Constructing permits have been granted, whereas restrictions on the issuance of constructing permits to Palestinians have been tightened.
The Wafa Information Company reported that Israeli occupation forces bulldozed a big space of ​​residents’ land west of Salfit Governorate in northern Jerusalem, noting that the province has been topic to large-scale bulldozing operations by the occupation forces for a number of months, with the goal of Water traces have been prolonged for the good thing about settlements, however on the expense of residents’ land.
Settlers burn farmland
In the meantime, a gaggle of settlers on Monday attacked a Palestinian Bedouin settlement close to the city of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of town of Nablus within the northern West Financial institution, burning dozens of dunams of Palestinian farmland.
On this context, Hassan Malehat, common director of the Bedouin Rights Protection Group, mentioned in an announcement that “a gaggle of extremist settlers arrange tents and arrange barbed wire fences on the land within the village of Burka, Ramallah. “To construct a brand new settlement outpost to the east,” he added, “this outpost was established within the context of the plans of the far-right forces within the occupying authorities to manage extra land with the intention to develop settlements.”
In accordance with Israeli estimates, greater than 720,000 Israeli settlers stay in settlement outposts within the West Financial institution, together with east Jerusalem, whereas the United Nations confirms that settlements within the occupied territory are unlawful and has known as for a halt to settlement building for many years.
Settlement exercise within the West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem, has elevated considerably because the present right-wing authorities led by Benjamin Netanyahu got here to energy in December 2022, exacerbated by the occupation because the outbreak of the Palestinian struggle. .
