12/4/2023–|Last updated: 12/4/202305:53 PM (Mecca time)
Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the occupied West Bank, while the occupation forces arrested about 60 Palestinians during raids on cities and villages in the West Bank, raising the number of detainees there to more than 3,500 detainees since the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.
A Palestinian was martyred and 18 others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Qalandia camp between the cities of Ramallah and occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that a young Palestinian man named Ali Ibrahim Alqam (32 years old) was shot in the heart by Israeli occupation soldiers in Qalandiya, which led to his martyrdom.
It reported in its statement that 4 serious injuries were injured by occupation bullets from Qalandiya to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 18 Palestinians were injured in confrontations with the occupation forces that stormed the camp and the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, and also began raiding commercial shops and residential buildings.
According to eyewitnesses, the occupation forces used live and metal bullets in confrontations with the Palestinians and severely beat a number of them.
Witnesses pointed out that an armed clash took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation army in Qalandiya camp. Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that an occupation soldier was injured during those confrontations.
In the same context, the reporter mentioned that two Palestinians were martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces during its aggression – at dawn on Monday – on the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the occupation seized the bodies of the two martyrs, while the occupation army radio, for its part, announced that special forces killed two gunmen during their storming of Qalqilya.
The Ministry explained that the death toll in the West Bank since the beginning of this year has risen with the martyrdom of Alqam to 465, including 257 martyrs since last October 7.
Arrests
In a related context, the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the occupation forces arrested about 60 Palestinians, including former prisoners, since dawn on Monday, bringing the total number of detainees in the West Bank to 3,540 since last October 7.
The Commission explained in a statement that the arrest operations were concentrated in the Hebron and Bethlehem governorates.
According to the statement, the arrest campaign was accompanied by widespread harassment, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.
The occupation forces carry out daily storming campaigns into villages and towns throughout the occupied West Bank, accompanied by confrontations, arrests, and shooting and gas bombs at Palestinians.
The arrests escalated after the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood and the launch of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7.
⭕Direct clash with the occupation forces during their storming of the city of Qalqilya pic.twitter.com/Eg1LbCg8uL
– Al-Aqsa Radio – Urgent (@Alaqsavoice_Brk) December 4, 2023
Intrusions
In light of the Israeli occupation policy of trying to prevent the resistance from carrying out operations in the West Bank, the occupation forces carried out a series of raids and incursions into the governorates of Jenin, Hebron, the Jalazoun camp, and the village of Jaffna in the West Bank, and arrested a number of Palestinians. The occupation forces also stormed the town of Kafr Thuluth, southeast of Qalqilya.
The occupation forces also stormed the eastern area of the city of Jenin, and deployed sniper teams on the roofs of a number of buildings, as a result of which clashes broke out between the occupation forces and young men and Palestinian resistance fighters.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli force on foot during its storming of the town of Silat al-Dhahr, south of the city of Jenin, which the occupation forces closed and began sweeping campaigns inside after deploying a number of snipers in the streets and on the roofs of a number of buildings.
According to Al Jazeera’s correspondent, the occupation stormed Jenin with more than 30 military vehicles, and launched a campaign of raids and arrests.
The occupation forces withdrew from “Jabal Abu Dhahir” in the city of Jenin towards Nablus Street, south of the city, according to Palestinian sources and platforms.
The occupation forces also stormed the Jalazoun camp, the town of Jaffna, north of Ramallah, and the Hebron Governorate to carry out an arrest campaign.
