Israeli Forces Detain Five Palestinian Youths Near Deir Ballut, West of Salfit

Israeli forces detained five Palestinian youths on Monday after they headed to their agricultural lands in the Wadi al-Khour area, east of Deir Ballut and west of Salfit in the West Bank, and the youths were assaulted while colonists attacked them and their vehicles.

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Saba reported that “Israeli enemy detained five Palestinian youths on Monday after they headed to their agricultural lands in the Wadi al-Khour area, east of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit in the West Bank, and assaulted them,” adding that Palestinian local sources said settlers also attacked the youths and their vehicles.

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WAFA, as carried by WAFA Agency, said the Israeli occupation forces “briefly detained five young Palestinian men on Monday and physically assaulted them as they were heading to their agricultural lands in the Wadi Al-Khor area, east of the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit,” and that colonists “also assaulted them and damaged their vehicles.”

WAFA further stated that the occupation forces “prevented the young men from accessing their agricultural lands as part of ongoing restrictions imposed on citizens in the area.”

In a separate incident described by Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Israeli forces raided Beit Awwa southwest of Hebron and shot a young man, Ali Salama Ammar al-Maslama, in the lower limbs, while also arresting Hamoudah Hassan al-Saqa al-Maslama.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi said the raid “prevented Red Crescent ambulance crews from reaching him for more than half an hour until they withdrew from the town,” and that his injury was later described as moderate.

The reporting also described raids and arrests across the West Bank that included Hebron and Salfit, with multiple outlets tying the actions to searches, road closures, and restrictions on movement.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi said that “Israeli forces stormed Beit Awwa, and opened live fire toward the young man Ali Salama Ammar al-Maslama in his lower limbs,” leaving him bleeding on the ground, and it added that Israeli forces arrested “the young man Hamoudah Hassan al-Saqa al-Maslama from the town.”

Al-Khaleej

In the same account, Al-Quds Al-Arabi said Israeli forces arrested “three young men during their raid on the city of Salfit” and also arrested “a young man from the village of Hajja, east of Qalqilya, after raiding their homes and rummaging through their contents.”

الخليج described settler attacks in the al-Rukiz area of Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, saying settlers beat farmers and shepherds and that “a man experiencing asphyxia and fainting after pepper spray was sprayed in his face.”

That outlet also said “the settlers’ bulldozers continued wide-scale land-clearing on residents’ lands in the town of Bruqin in the Salfit area.”

In a longer narrative, الخليج said that “Yesterday, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a wide campaign of raids and searches in scattered areas of the occupied West Bank, mainly concentrated in Hebron Governorate,” and it described “dozens were arrested” alongside raids on homes and field investigations after “mistreatment and detention for hours.”

It further stated that the same period saw “the resumed burning of Palestinian villages, vehicles, and property,” and it added that “a group of these settlers stormed a Palestinian school in Nablus and raised the Israeli flag over it.”

Another report described a broad arrest operation in which Israeli occupation forces arrested 28 Palestinians across multiple West Bank cities, including Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, Tulkarem, Jenin, Qalqiliya, and Salfit.

“Yesterday, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a wide campaign of raids and searches in scattered areas of the occupied West Bank, mainly concentrated in Hebron Governorate, during which dozens were arrested, in addition to raids on homes, tampering with their contents, and subjecting residents to field investigations after mistreatment and detention for hours, in tandem with the escalation of settler violence and the resumed burning of Palestinian villages, vehicles, and property”

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قناة النيل للأخبار said that “Israeli occupation forces have arrested 28 Palestinians in various areas of the West Bank,” and it specified that the operation targeted 28 Palestinians in those cities.

The same report said that in Nablus, an Israeli special force raided the village of Salim east of the city, raided the home of Naseem Hilmi Karkri, besieged the house after reinforcement arrived, searched it and then arrested his son.

It also said that in Nablus, Israeli forces arrested “the young man Badr Al-Rizah” after raiding and searching his home in the al-Makhfiya area.

In Bethlehem, the report said Israeli forces arrested five citizens from different areas in the Abu Anjim area southeast of Bethlehem after raids on their family homes and searches.

In Hebron, it said Israeli forces arrested five residents of the governorate and took them to an unknown destination after raiding their homes and searching them.

The report added that WAFA said Israeli forces set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron and its towns, villages, and camps, and it said they “closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement blocks, and earthen mounds.”

It also described arrests in Tulkarem, Jenin, Qalqiliya, and Salfit, including a “24-year-old man from the town of Kafr al-Dik west of Salfit.”

SANA also described raids and arrests accompanied by checkpoint installations and road closures, presenting a pattern of movement restrictions alongside detentions.

In its account, سانا said that “Israeli occupation forces today launched a series of raids and arrests in the West Bank,” and it reported that WAFA indicated “the occupying forces arrested four Palestinians in al-Khalil after raiding their homes and ransacking their belongings.”

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The same report said that “In the same context, the occupation forces installed several military checkpoints at the entrances to al-Khalil, its towns, villages and camps, and closed several main and secondary roads.”

It then described Yaabad, south of the city of Jenin, as a target of “a wide campaign of raids by the Israeli occupation forces” that ended with “the arrest of one person” after houses were broken into, belongings were ransacked, and residents were assaulted.

SANA also said Israeli forces “arrested two young Palestinians during a raid on the city of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit.”

In parallel, WAFA’s Salfit-focused report said Israeli forces “briefly detained five young Palestinian men” and “physically assaulted them,” while also “prevented the young men from accessing their agricultural lands.”

Taken together, the accounts show detentions tied to both raids and access restrictions, with checkpoints and road closures recurring in the descriptions.

The WAFA Agency report also specified that the detentions occurred “as they were heading to their agricultural lands” in the Wadi Al-Khor area, and it said colonists “damaged their vehicles.”

The accounts also linked the described raids and arrests to wider escalation involving settler violence, land-clearing, and burning of property, while emphasizing the operational reach across the West Bank.

“Occupied Jerusalem (SANA) The Israeli occupation forces today launched a series of raids and arrests in the West Bank”

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الخليج stated that the raids and searches were “in tandem with the escalation of settler violence and the resumed burning of Palestinian villages, vehicles, and property,” and it added that “a group of these settlers stormed a Palestinian school in Nablus and raised the Israeli flag over it, and wrote racist slogans on the walls.”

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It also said that “land-clearing operations in the northern West Bank” accompanied the broader campaign, and it referenced bulldozers continuing “wide-scale land-clearing on residents’ lands in the town of Bruqin in the Salfit area.”

In Hebron Governorate, الخليج described settlers beating farmers and shepherds in the al-Rukiz area of Masafer Yatta, and it said the assault led to “asphyxia and fainting after pepper spray was sprayed in his face.”

Al-Quds Al-Arabi’s Hebron reporting described how the raid on Beit Awwa involved live fire and prevented Red Crescent ambulance crews from reaching the injured man for more than half an hour.

In the Salfit area, WAFA said the occupation forces prevented access to agricultural lands, and it described colonists assaulting the youths and damaging their vehicles.

قناة النيل للأخبار described the operational consequences of the arrest campaign as including checkpoints and road closures using “iron gates, cement blocks, and earthen mounds,” and it reported that some detainees were taken “to an unknown destination.”

Across these accounts, the immediate stakes described by the sources include physical injury, restricted access to work and movement, and the expansion of enforcement actions into multiple governorates and towns.