Israeli Forces And Settlers Raid West Bank, Arrest Palestinians And Burn Homes In Masafer Yatta

Israeli forces and extremist settlers carried out new raids and attacks across the occupied West Bank overnight Sunday into Monday, targeting Palestinian homes, residents, farmland and property.

“Israeli forces and extremist settlers carried out a series of new raids and attacks across the occupied West Bank”

PressTV

Press TV said the incidents included the burning of a Palestinian house in Masafer Yatta, the cutting of fruit trees, and the erection of new settlement tents, while it also described settlers storming Khirbet al-Marajem and attacking the home of Turmus Ayya school principal Muhammad Arif Muslim.

Al Jazeera

In the Ramallah-Nablus area, Press TV reported that Muslim and his family were threatened, and it added that settlers attacked Palestinians in the al-Mughayyir plain and attacked a Palestinian vehicle traveling between Abu Falah and al-Mughayyir with stones and pepper spray.

Press TV also said Israeli occupying forces conducted raids and arrests across Bethlehem, Ramallah, al-Khalil, Nablus, Jenin and Qalqilya, including at least 11 Palestinians arrested in Marah Rabah (south of Bethlehem).

A Palestinian young man was injured by live ammunition shrapnel during an Israeli occupation raid on Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to QNA.

Fana News said WAFA reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the camp, raided and searched several Palestinian homes, and ransacked their contents amidst heavy gunfire, resulting in the young man being wounded in the foot and transferred to hospital for treatment.

Al-Yawm Al-Sābi‘a

Yaffa News Network reported that Israeli forces arrested eight young men from their homes during raids that targeted several neighborhoods in Balata refugee camp, and it said three were later released while five remained in detention.

Haaretz described how, during the war, an officer and startup manager named G. encountered a recurring problem in the West Bank: youths from a nearby hava, or farm, repeatedly entered the homes of Palestinian families in nearby villages.

Mondoweiss described a raid on the Qalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, saying an explosion shook a four-story building at 2:30 in the morning as the door to Younis Jahjouh’s home was blown open.

“It was 2:30 in the morning in the Qalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah”

Mondoweiss

It reported that roughly 40 Israeli soldiers stormed the building, led by a Palestinian captive, and that Younis Jahjouh, 57, his wife Ghadeer, his 16-year-old daughter Aya, and his sons Ahmad, Tamer, and Louay were inside when Ghadeer and Aya were ordered to leave immediately.

Mondoweiss also said Palestinian Red Crescent teams treated 51 people during the Israeli assault, including 38 injuries that required hospitalization, and it added that the raid lasted 48 hours and saw at least 60 people, including women and children, detained and interrogated.

The article framed the stakes through Israel Katz’s instruction to invade and occupy a new refugee camp in the West Bank and expel its residents, and it quoted Younis Jahjouh asking, “Is this really how the camp’s story ends?”