WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces launched on Friday morning a series of violent raids and assaults across multiple cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, accompanied by heavy use of tear gas, sound bombs, and clashes with local residents.
In Idna, west of al-Khalil, Israeli forces fired dense volleys of tear gas and sound bombs at the town’s entrance.
Military vehicles stormed the town of Aqqaba and the city of Tubas, triggering intense clashes near the Tayaseer village junction to the east.
In Ramallah, the Israeli military continued its incursion into Al-Mughayyir, northeast of the city, launching a wide-scale house raid campaign under the pretext of “pursuing the perpetrator of yesterday’s settler attack”. Simultaneously, bulldozers uprooted hundreds of olive trees in the village’s plains.
The Israeli soldiers also stormed Shuweika suburb north of Tulkarem, set up a military checkpoint on the eastern road, and raided As-Samu town and Bab Al-Zawiya in central al-Khalil.
The raids extended to Aqabat Jabr refugee camp south of Jericho, Tarqumiya west of al-Khalil, and the cities of Bethlehem and Nablus, where troops advanced through the Deir Sharaf checkpoint into the northern mountain area.
These attacks are part of an ongoing escalation campaign targeting Palestinian towns and villages, coupled with a systematic policy of tree uprooting and land leveling, an attempt to impose new facts on the ground that serve the occupation’s settlement agenda.
In light of the rising aggression by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians and their property, widespread calls have been launched within the West Bank for escalating resistance in all forms, urging communities to target occupation forces and settlers using all available means of resistance.
