On Thursday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, abducted one Palestinian, and assaulted an elderly man.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the refugee camp before storming and ransacking more than twenty homes.
They added that most of the invaded homes belong to families of Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli army and families of political prisoners.
During the invasions, the soldiers caused damage to the homes and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, before abducting Sa’id Mteir, a former political prisoner who was released less than a month ago.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews in Jericho treated a 65-year-old man for various cuts and bruises after the soldiers assaulted him, before transferring him to the hospital for treatment.
In related news, the soldiers abducted five citizens, including a young woman and Palestine TV correspondent Ali Dar Ali, from various neighborhoods and towns in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank, early Thursday morning.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Majed Fida’ Abu Zeina, 16, in the Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Earlier Thursday dawn, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a Palestinian car in Tubas, killing six young men and seriously wounding one.
The slain young men have been identified as Mohammad Zakariyya Zobeidi, 21, Ahmad Fawwaz Abu Dawwas, 24, Mohammad Awad Abu Jom’a, 30, Qussai Majdi Abdul-Razeq, 26, Mohamamd Nathmi Abu Gharra, 22, and Ahmad Fawwaz Fayez Abu Dawwas, 22.
Since last Wednesday, August 28, the Israeli army launched a wide-scale offensive on the West Bank, especially the northern parts, killing 40 citizens, including 21 from Jenin Governorate, 8 from Tulkarem, 8 from Tubas, and 3 from Hebron, raising the total number of slain Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, to 700.
On Thursday, Day 335 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians across the devastated, starved, and besieged coastal enclave.
Israel has now killed at least 40,891 Palestinians and injured more than 94,398, mostly children and women, in addition to the thousands who remain under the rubble in various parts of the destroyed Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
