Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including invasions of towns and refugee camps, home incursions and abductions, road closures, colonizer invasions of an archaeological site, and attacks that forced Palestinian families to flee their communities in several areas.
In Bethlehem, protests erupted near the main entrance of the Dheisheh refugee camp after Israeli forces deployed in the area and fired large quantities of sound grenades and tear‑gas canisters toward Palestinian youths and nearby homes, causing widespread suffocation and heightened tension among residents.
South of the city, protests took place at the Beit Fajjar junction, where soldiers fired sound grenades at youths amid a noticeable military presence.
In the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted two young men from the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia.
Eyewitnesses stated that the soldiers invaded the residential area where the two youths live, stormed their homes, searched them, and tampered with their contents before abducting Ahmad Badwan and Shadi Radwan.
The army also closed a secondary road leading to the town’s western entrance; the Ezbet at‑Tabeeb–Azzun road, using earth mounds, obstructing the movement of residents.
The main northern entrance to Azzun remains sealed with an iron gate, a closure that has been in place for more than two years.
Earlier, soldiers had invaded the town from its northern entrance and deployed throughout the al‑Muthallath neighborhood, Khallet Darbe’, and the cemetery area, before withdrawing after a four‑hour incursion.
In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Shuqba, west of the city, stormed a Palestinian home, and triggered protests in the surrounding area.
Soldiers fired tear‑gas bombs extensively, leading to several cases of suffocation, though no arrests were reported.
In addition, Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian land in the al‑Khalayel area in al‑Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, injured a Palestinian farmer, and occupied a Palestinian agricultural room to use as a new illegal outpost.
In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded a home in the village of Madama, south of the city, searched it, and tampered with its contents before withdrawing.
In the northeaster West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the city of Tubas and the nearby town of Tammun with several military patrols, storming and searching multiple homes.
The occupation forces returned and repeated the invasion within hours, reflecting a clear escalation in military activity in the area.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Jihad Mustafa Maslamani after storming and ransacking his home in Tubas city.
In Hebron, in the southern West Bank, the army closed the Bab az‑Zawiya area and the Be’er as‑Sabe’ Street leading into the city center to secure the illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers’ invasion of an archaeological site.
Large numbers of soldiers forced shop owners to shut down their businesses, dispersed residents, and cleared the area to accompany dozens of colonizers entering the site.
The city has witnessed a sharp escalation in colonizer invasions of archaeological and religious locations, accompanied by repressive measures and closures imposed by Israeli forces to secure these incursions.
In Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, a Palestinian family was forced to leave the village of al‑Auja, north of the city, after having already been displaced from the Shalal al‑Auja Bedouin community.
Local sources said the family had fled Shalal al‑Auja about a week ago after numerous assaults and serious violations, and settled in al‑Auja village but was forced to leave again due to ongoing attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
The al‑Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported that continuous harassment and assaults carried out by colonizers have driven dozens of families from Shalal al‑Auja, with the total number of displaced families reaching seventy‑nine to date.
