Israeli paramilitary colonizers established a new illegal colonialist outpost of the Evyatar settlement on top of Sbeih Mountain in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
The outpost was established early Sunday morning, while Israeli forces were engaged in illegally detaining Palestinian civilians in the area and invading their homes.
Israeli occupation forces detained a Palestinian truck driver and seized his truck in the town of Beita, southern Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli occupation forces abducted a Palestinian citizen at dawn on Sunday, stormed and ransacked a number of homes of political prisoners scheduled to be released in Nablus Governorate.
Israeli occupation jeeps also stormed the Old City of Nablus, the Balata and Askar al-Jadeed camps, and the towns of Salem, east of Nablus, Aqraba, and Zita Jamma’in, south of Nablus.
The soldiers invaded the homes of the prisoners who were to be released in the stormed areas, searched them, tampered with their contents, and threatened not to display any signs of joy inside them Among its owners were: Anas Akef Jamil, Raed Ismail Abu Siris, Musa Al-Sarouji, Tariq Basalat, Alaa Al-Rai, Anan Zahi, Youssef Bani Jami’, and Raed Kanaan.
Local sources pointed out that during the storming of the town of Salem, the occupation forces abducted citizen Khaled Akef Shtayyeh, brother of prisoner Anas, who is scheduled to be released.
These attacks followed an Israeli invasion of Beita on Saturday, when Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas canisters at Palestinians in several areas during olive harvests in Beita.
Also on Sunday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers stole olives in the eastern village of Al-Laban, south of Nablus.
Local sources reported that colonists stole olives from the village lands, after expelling farmers from their lands two days ago, just as the annual olive harvest was beginning.
The olive harvest is a major event for Palestinian society, as it has been for thousands of years. Olive oil produces a large part of the Palestinian economy. But in recent decades, Israeli paramilitary settlers and soldiers have displaced Palestinian farmers from thousands of acres of their land, and destroyed over a million Palestinian-owned olive trees.
