8/12/2023–|Last updated: 12/8/202304:05 AM (Mecca time)
At dawn on Friday, the Israeli occupation forces continued their raids on Palestinian cities, towns and camps in the occupied West Bank. The occupation campaign focused on a number of villages, towns and neighborhoods in the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank, where it launched a campaign of raids, arrests and demolition of homes and shops.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces stormed at dawn today the towns of Rujib and Salem, east of Nablus, Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and Beit Ummar and Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron in the West Bank, where confrontations broke out between Palestinian youth and the occupation forces.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) indicated that the Israeli occupation forces stormed in large numbers the towns of Yatta, Al-Samu’ and Dura, south of Hebron, in addition to the town of Beit Ummar in the north, and deployed around citizens’ homes and on the main roads, preventing citizens’ movement.
#video| Part of the occupation forces’ storming of Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron pic.twitter.com/VlVJDjMqvu
– Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 7, 2023
The occupation forces also stormed several neighborhoods in the southern region of the city of Hebron, and detained a number of citizens’ vehicles, in the Karantina area, Wadi Al-Hariya and Al-Deek Junction, and searched them.
The occupation had previously carried out house demolitions in Yatta and villages south of Hebron to force residents to flee the area.
The occupation forces stormed homes and shops in Dura, south of the Hebron Governorate, after throwing a homemade bomb at a military tower of the occupation army in the “Kharsa” triangle, south of Dura, amid intense deployment in many axes and intersections leading to villages and towns in the south of the Hebron Governorate.
Storms and arrests
Yesterday, Thursday, the occupation forces stormed several cities, towns and camps in the West Bank, and the raids were concentrated in the city of Ramallah, where they raided commercial stores and clashed with resistance fighters before withdrawing from the city, while the army stormed areas in Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron, while a large force surrounded the Tulkarm camp and deployed snipers. On the roofs of buildings surrounding the camp, infrastructure and streets in the area were destroyed. The Israeli force also surrounded Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and obstructed the movement of ambulance crews.
Yesterday, Thursday, the town of Ya’ab, southwest of Jenin, held a funeral for the boy Omar Abu Bakri (16 years old), who died as a result of being shot by the occupation forces after they stormed the town the night before. The town of Ya’bad had witnessed clashes between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces, which prevented ambulances from reaching the martyr before he died.
In Tulkarm, in the West Bank, the occupation forces stormed the city at dawn yesterday, Thursday, and arrested 5 Palestinians from the Nour Shams camp, amid violent clashes with resistance fighters in the city who targeted occupation vehicles with explosive devices. The occupation forces also bulldozed facilities in the vicinity of the camp.
The occupation forces arrested about 30 Palestinians on Wednesday evening and Thursday dawn in various areas of the West Bank, including freed prisoners and workers from the Gaza Strip. The Prisoners’ Club said in a joint statement with the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority that the arrests were concentrated in the governorates of Tulkarm, Hebron, Nablus, Bethlehem, Jenin and Ramallah.
The Prisoners’ Club added that the occupation forces severely beat Palestinian detainees and conducted field investigations, in addition to widespread sabotage of citizens’ homes.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club indicated that the number of arrests has risen to more than 3,670 since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the start of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip 62 days ago.
