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Wed 17 Jan 2024 8:10 am - Jerusalem Time
West Bank: Confrontations with Israeli forces after storming towns and arresting 50 Palestinians
The Israeli forces continued their raids into cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, and confrontations broke out with Palestinian youth in a number of them, while Israeli forces arrested dozens.
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Anata (east of occupied Jerusalem) and the villages of Nahalin and Husan (west of Bethlehem).
A local source reported that confrontations broke out between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces, as the occupation soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas bombs at the protesting youth. They also closed shops and searched a number of homes after storming them.
The Red Crescent announced that a young man was injured by occupation bullets during confrontations in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, and the occupation forces also stormed the town of Asira al-Qibliya, south of the same city.
Local sources said that the Israeli forces stormed the Ain Sultan refugee camp, north of the city of Jericho in the West Bank.
The sources added that the Israeli forces surrounded a house amid heavy firing of stun grenades and tear gas, and arrested a young man, claiming that he was wanted by their security services, before they withdrew.
The Israeli forces set up a number of barriers at the entrances to the towns of Qalqilya Governorate and the main entrance to the city, and arrested a young man in front of the entrance to the town of Nabi Elias, east of the city.
The people of the city of Dura (south of Hebron) mourned the bodies of Muhammad Abu Sebaa and Ahed Mtair, who were martyred yesterday, Monday, at the hands of the Israeli forces. The funeral coincided with a city-wide strike to mourn the two martyrs.
The Israeli forces had previously withdrawn from the home of the prisoner, doctor Ayser Barghouti, in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the city of Ramallah, after storming the city at dawn on Tuesday. They raided the apartment of Barghouti, who was arrested by the occupation forces 9 days ago on charges of carrying out an attack north of the city of Ramallah on the 7th of Ramallah. current month.
Arrests
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli forces arrested 50 Palestinians last night from the West Bank, including children and freed prisoners.
The Palestinian News and Information Agency (Wafa) reported on Tuesday that the arrests included 16 citizens from Hebron, 10 from Ramallah, 6 from Jenin, and 3 from Qalqilya and Nablus.
The Prisoners' Club and the Prisoners' Affairs Authority reported - last Sunday - that "the number of arrests rose after the seventh of last October to about 5,875 people, and it includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, and those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure." And those who were held hostage."
On the verge of explosion
Since the resistance launched the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the pace of Israeli attacks in the West Bank has escalated, and has since resulted in the martyrdom of more than 350 Palestinians and the arrest of more than 5,000 others.
The Israeli army continues its raids, while the Haaretz newspaper quoted security officials as saying that the situation in the West Bank is on the verge of explosion. Security officials warned that if the political level does not make decisions about the economic future of the Palestinians there, the risk of conflict will increase. The newspaper said. The Israeli army transferred the Duvdevan unit from Gaza to the West Bank in anticipation of the escalation of the situation there.
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West Bank: Confrontations with Israeli forces after storming towns and arresting 50 Palestinians