PALESTINE

Sun 18 May 2025 9:02 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli occupation forces launch an arrest campaign, and settlers burn lands in the West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of raids and arrests in the West Bank at dawn and early Sunday morning.


In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested two young men, Ahmed Yasser Tarish (24 years old) and Ammar Ali Tarish (23 years old), after raiding their parents' homes and searching them in the town of Za'tara.


The occupation forces also stormed the village of al-Rashayda to the east, fired flares, and raided and searched a number of homes, without any arrests being reported.


In Jenin, occupation forces arrested freed prisoner Yasmine Shaaban after raiding and searching her home in the village of Jalameh.


Yasmine was released as part of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza last January, having been serving a six-year prison sentence following her arrest in 2023.


In Tubas, Israeli special forces arrested Shaddad Fayez Janajra after raiding his home in Wadi al-Far'a and destroying its contents.


In Nablus, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Karim Nasser Hanani, after raiding and searching his home and ransacking its contents in Beit Furik.


The occupation forces stormed the town of Beita, south of Nablus, and Beit Iba, west of the city, and toured several neighborhoods. No arrests were reported.


The head of the village council in Duma, Suleiman Dawabsheh, said that settlers set fire to Duma lands from the southwest, causing the fire to spread across hundreds of dunams, some of which were planted with olive trees.


He reported that the Civil Defense crews were able to extinguish the fire and control it.


Dawabsheh pointed out that the greatest threat to the village of Duma is the spread of pastoral settlements, which have spread like a cancer and are eating away at the village's lands. He added that the village is constantly subjected to settler attacks and repeated assaults on citizens and their property.

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Israeli occupation forces launch an arrest campaign, and settlers burn lands in the West Bank.

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