Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, abducting dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and breaking into homes in multiple districts including Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Ramallah, Salfit, Tubas, Bethlehem, and Hebron.
Occupation forces abducted at least eighteen Palestinians at dawn during invasions across the Nablus district, in the northern West Bank.
Troops invaded several neighborhoods in Nablus city, along with the towns of Tell, to the south and Salem to the east, breaking into homes and ransacking their contents.
Soldiers abducted Sohaib Bishkar from the Popular Housing area east of Nablus, the brothers Jamil and Osama Awadallah Eshteyeh, Ibrahim Lutfi Awad from Salem, and Mousa Ali Ramadan, Hadi Jihad Hindi, and Mohammad Ziad Shtayyeh from Tell.
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Later in the day, occupation forces abducted eleven additional Palestinians during a renewed invasion of Tell, southwest of Nablus.
The abducted residents were identified as Assem Al‑Sha’er, Nasr Assem, Islam Assem, Mohammad Nasrallah, Yahya Nasrallah, Nasrallah Al‑Sha’er, Khaled Sheikh, Arab Ramadan, Bara’ Rayhan, Assem Rayhan, and Majdi Ramadan.
In addition, the soldiers invaded the Al-Mighayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many gas inhalation injuries among the residents.
In a related incident, soldiers assaulted a 22‑year‑old Palestinian near the Awarta military roadblock south of Nablus, causing moderate wounds.
The director of the Emergency and Ambulance Center of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus, Amid Ahmad, said medics treated the young man after soldiers beat him. He is one of the Palestinians abducted earlier from Tell.
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Occupation forces also abducted a Palestinian from the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, after breaking into the home of Mustafa Fayez Salama at dawn.
In the Qalqilia district in the northwestern West Bank, soldiers invaded the towns of Far’ata, Azzun, and Immatin on Friday evening.
Troops invaded Far’ata and broke into several homes in the eastern area, including the home of Mohammad Ali.
In Azzun, soldiers invaded from the northern main entrance, detained several residents, interrogated them in the street, and later released them.
Troops also invaded Immatin and roamed several streets before withdrawing without reporting abductions.
In the central West Bank, occupation forces abducted Khaled Mohammad Hamdan from the Qaddoura refugee camp in central Ramallah after invading the camp at dawn.
Soldiers also broke into the headquarters of the refugee camp’s Popular Committee and fired toxic gas near the adjacent Palestine Medical Complex. Troops later invaded the Al‑Masyoun and Ein Munjed neighborhoods in Ramallah city.
In Salfit, in the central West Bank, the army invaded the city at dawn, where the soldiers broke into several homes, ransacked them, and detained a number of young men for field interrogation before releasing them.
In Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank, soldiers invaded the city on Friday evening with several military vehicles and deployed foot patrols in the city center.
In the southern West Bank, a Palestinian child was shot with live ammunition during an invasion of the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.
Soldiers invaded the town, positioned themselves in the Al‑Muthallath area, and opened live fire, injuring a 15‑year‑old boy in the foot.
Occupation forces also invaded the historic Solomon’s Pools area between the town of Al‑Khader and the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem.
Soldiers forced Palestinian visitors to leave at gunpoint, closed a small commercial kiosk, and declared the area a closed zone.
Local sources noted that soldiers and colonizers have escalated attacks in the Solomon’s Pools area, repeatedly preventing Palestinians from accessing the site.
In the southern West Bank district of Hebron, occupation forces abducted two Palestinians from the Yatta Badiya and Beit Ummar areas. Soldiers abducted Mustafa at‑Tabna from Khirbet Khashem ad‑Daraj in the Yatta Badia after chasing him while he was herding sheep.
They also abducted Mohammad Nasser Ayesh Ekhlayyel, 30, from the Safa area near the illegal Gush Etzion colony bloc north of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
In a related incident, soldiers invaded and broke into a home in the town of Doura, south of Hebron, and interrogated the family.
The soldiers also invaded the Al-Majd village, south of Doura, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades.
These are some of the documented invasions and violations carried out by Israeli occupation forces across the occupied West Bank; due to the ongoing nature of these attacks, not all incidents can be fully recorded at the time of reporting.
