Israeli occupation forces continued military operations across the occupied West Bank at dawn Thursday, invading cities, towns, and refugee camps, abducting many Palestinians during home invasions and violent searches, amidst the deployment of additional military units across multiple governorates.
In Jenin in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted Saddam Hussein Asa’sa. 19, and Nasruddin Sammour from their homes during an invasion of the Al-Zahra’ neighborhood in Jenin city.
The soldiers also abducted Abdul-Rahman Abu Alia, 19, after an undercover unit infiltrated the Al-Bayader area in the city’s eastern neighborhood.
Shortly afterward, military reinforcements were deployed to eastern Jenin following the undercover operation and the siege of a home. Israeli forces also invaded the town of Al- Judeida, south of Jenin.
Also in Jenin, Israeli forces invaded Ya’bad town, southwest of the city, forcibly displaced three Palestinian families from their homes and turned the building into a military post.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers invaded areas east of Jenin and closed several roads to Palestinians to secure illegal colonizers who were “celebrating” the reestablishment of the illegal Ganim colony, which Israel evacuated twenty years earlier.
Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right Religious Zionist Party, finance minister, and a minister in the Ministry of Defense with authority over civilian affairs in the occupied West Bank, accompanied the colonizers during their invasion and provocative activities on stolen Palestinian lands.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, a large Israeli military force accompanied by a military bulldozer invaded the town of Qusra southeast of the city.
Elsewhere in the governorate, Israeli forces severely assaulted a young Palestinian after breaking into his home in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, in addition to invading Salem town, east of the city, and Qusra town, southeast of Nablus.
During the invasions, which included several armored vehicles, including bulldozers, the soldiers interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, especially in Burqa.
In Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the town of Illar north of the city and carried out a campaign of home invasions and searches. During the operation, forces abducted Zuhair Imad Taqatqa after breaking into his home.
Israeli forces also abducted former political prisoner Ahmad Fanni after breaking into his home in the town of Saida north of Tulkarem, and abducted Mohammad Naim To’ma after breaking into his home in the town of Qaffin north of the city.
The soldiers additionally invaded the town of Bal’a east of Tulkarem and broke into a home during their operation in Qaffin.
In Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces fired live ammunition toward Palestinian youths during an invasion of the Kafr Saba neighborhood of the city.
In addition, the army abducted several relatives of Palestinians previously killed by Israeli forces after breaking into their homes.
Those abducted included Ibrahim Abu Haniya and his son Mohammad, the father and brother of slain Palestinian Jamal Abu Haniya; Ghassan Jibril and his son Ashraf, the father and brother of the late Jibril Ghassan Jibril; Ziad Daoud and his son Maher, the father and brother of the late Tareq Ziad Daoud; and Mahmoud Abu Khalil, the father of the late Ali Mahmoud Abu Khalil.
Israeli forces also abducted Mohammad Abu Haniya after breaking into his home in Qalqilia and confiscated surveillance recordings from a commercial shop at the city’s eastern entrance.
In Salfit in the central West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the town of Farkha, west of the city, and initiated searches of homes, before abducting seven young men; Yousef Abdul-Rahman Qomboz, Ahmad Nasser Qomboz, Fares Hamdallah Sharif, Moath Bassam Rezeq, Mer’ey Rashed Bani Sakhr, Ahmad Monir Sharif and Marwan Saber Mohra.
In the Bethlehem area of the southern West Bank, Israeli forces continued their invasion of the town of Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem and broke into a number of homes.
In Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded Al-Arroub refugee camp north of the city and deployed in the nearby Wadi al-Sheikh area. A large military force also invaded the town of Tarqumiya and Kharas, northwest of Hebron.
During the invasions, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Ashraf Ja’afra, Rami Abdullah Ja’afra, Yasser Shehda Fatafta and Ibrahim Mohamamd Saya’ra.
The soldiers also invaded many villages and towns near Hebropn, including Dura, Nuba, Halhul and ath-Thaheriyya, before storming and ransacking homes.
These are among the documented and verified invasions and violations carried out across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Thursday.
Because of the ongoing nature of the invasions, additional incidents may have gone unreported or could not be immediately verified amid the sustained presence of Israeli military forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers across Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps.
