A number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation during Israeli army raids on Saturday in the south and center of the occupied West Bank, while settlers raided a residential area and a school.

The official Palestinian news agency (WAFA) said that suffocation injuries were recorded during the army's storming of the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

She added that the occupation forces stormed Al-Khader and set up a military checkpoint where they stopped vehicles, searched them and checked the identities of the passengers. The occupation soldiers also fired sound bombs and toxic gas at a number of shops, which led to a number of citizens suffering from suffocation, and they were treated in the field.

Also in the southern West Bank, the agency reported that the Israeli army stormed the Al-Fawar camp, south of the city of Hebron, and fired live bullets and tear gas canisters at citizens' homes, without reporting any injuries or raids on homes.

South of Hebron, WAFA reported that a group of settlers stormed the small village of Al-Fakhit (east of the town of Yatta) and conducted provocative tours around the homes of citizens.

She added that the settlers raided the school and toured its courtyards and corridors.

To the west of Hebron, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that an Israeli infantry force stormed the town of Idhna, raided and searched a house.

In the central West Bank, WAFA reported that the Israeli army stormed the town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem (governorate), and fired a heavy barrage of tear gas canisters at citizens and their homes, causing a number of them to suffocate from inhaling the gas, and they were treated in the field.

Storming Nablus

The Israeli occupation forces stormed, at dawn on Sunday, the new Askar camp east of the city of Nablus, shortly after Israeli forces stormed the city of Qalqilya and towns and villages in Beit Ramallah and Bethlehem.

In parallel with the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army expanded its operations, and the settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in a total of 780 martyrs and about 6,300 wounded since October 7, 2023, according to official Palestinian data.

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 146 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.