Dozens injured in West Bank as Israeli raids, settler violence rage on
Dozens of Palestinians, including a child, sustained injuries and several abducted in the latest wave of Israeli military and settler violence in the West Bank.
Three Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot by Israeli forces during a military incursion into Nablus in the northern West Bank on Sunday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported the child sustained a thigh wound from live ammunition, while two young men were hit by rubber-coated bullets.
Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and local youths, leaving at least 40 civilians suffering from tear gas inhalation. Meanwhile, soldiers forcibly shuttered shops and abducted one of the store owners.
Settler violence soars
Israeli settlers, backed by the regime forces, assaulted residents in Einabus village’s Khala area in Nablus, violently attacking several Palestinians—including the local council head—while firing live rounds and tear gas, the Einabus Village Council said.
The council also reported that the regime’s forces abducted two sanitation workers during their waste collection duties in the village.
In Ramallah, settlers launched fresh attacks in the Sahl Sa’i agricultural plain between al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah villages, setting fire to farm structures belonging to residents, the head of the village council told WAFA, adding that the settlers persistently assault the plains, setting fires and damaging citizens’ lands and properties.
In al-Khalil, a group of extremist Israeli settlers invaded Khirbet al-Rakeez, a small Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta, and uprooted and damaged about 30 olive and almond trees belonging to local residents, according to local activist Osama Makhamra.
In a separate act of sabotage, the illegal settlers released their livestock onto cultivated fields belonging to another resident, causing widespread destruction to crops.
Since a ceasefire in Gaza was announced in January, Israel has intensified its attacks across the West Bank. In March, the regime broke the ceasefire, and it proceeded with its large-scale military raids in the West Bank.
Since January, Israeli forces have killed 13 Palestinians, including two women and a child, and injured dozens others in Tulkarem and its camps. Nearly 400 homes were completely destroyed and over 2,570 others were partially demolished in the camps of Nur Shams and Tulkarem.
That’s while more than 956 Palestinians have been killed and about 7,000 others injured since Israel has launched an aggression on the West Bank and East al-Quds in October 2023, in conjunction with the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza. Some 16,400 others were arrested.
In total, 52,314 Palestinians have been killed and 117,792 others injured since October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
