Israeli forces injured three Palestinians, including a 14-year-old girl, and abducted at least 12 others during widespread military incursions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
The operations included home invasions, field interrogations, property damage, and deployments in multiple communities across Hebron, Bethlehem, occupied Jerusalem, Tubas, Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah. Israeli colonizers also raised flags and expanded an outpost in the Bethlehem area and released livestock near residents’ homes in the Ramallah area.
In Al-Karmil, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, two women and a 14-year-old girl were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying several women.
According to local sources, Israeli forces invaded the town, deployed along its streets, and broke into several homes, converting some into military positions before the shooting.
Al-Karmil Mayor Qassem Abu Arram, whose wife was among the wounded, said the women were returning from a wedding when soldiers opened heavy fire on their vehicle in the town center.
He added that there had been no warning, military roadblock, or visible indication that Israeli forces were operating in the area.
Abu Arram identified the seriously wounded as his wife, Sana’ Abu Arram, 58, and Lana Al-Haroush, 14, both of whom sustained facial injuries. Doaa’ Al-Haroush suffered shrapnel wounds to the face. Israeli forces continued their invasion of the town and broke into additional homes.
In the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted 23-year-old Deifallah Mosallam Rashayda after breaking into and searching his family’s home in Al-Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem.
Military vehicles also invaded Beit Jala, Al-Khader, Za’atara, Dar Salah, Al-Ubeidiya, and Al-Shawawra, with no additional abductions reported.
In related news, Israeli paramilitary colonizers raised Israeli flags along a road in the Osh Ghrab area east of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem Governorate.
Local sources described the move as provocative toward Palestinian residents. Colonizers have established an outpost in the area and continue to expand it under Israeli military protection by installing additional mobile homes.
Osh Ghrab is a hill on the eastern side of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem. The site was a Jordanian military base that Israel seized in 1967 and subsequently used as an Israeli military base.
The Israeli army unilaterally vacated the military base in 2006. The Beit Sahour municipality then began renovating the site and converted it into a public park for the local community in the Bethlehem area.
Since then, Israeli soldiers and groups of illegal paramilitary colonizers have frequently invaded the area, demolished structures, bulldozed roads, and threatened to take over the entire area.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces invaded Sheikh Saad village and abducted Mohammad Daoud Abdo.
Israeli police also destroyed hundreds of wooden chairs used by worshippers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque and discarded them outside Bab Al-Silsila, one of the compound’s gates. The incident occurred after 169 Israeli colonizers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under police protection.
Israeli forces also invaded the vicinity of Qalandia Refugee Camp north of Jerusalem and fired tear gas canisters toward its entrance. Israeli police separately invaded Adam Roundabout, located between the towns of Jaba’ and Ar-Ram north of occupied Jerusalem.
In Tammun, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, Israeli forces broke into and searched numerous homes, many belonging to former prisoners. Several young men were detained and subjected to field interrogation before being released.
In Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the city through its eastern entrance and deployed in the Kafr Saba neighborhood. They abducted Ziad Mohammad Obeid after breaking into and searching his home.
Israeli forces also invaded the village of Sanniriya, south of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, and abducted Ali Mahmoud A’mar after breaking into and searching his residence.
In Anabta, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces carried out a seven-hour incursion marked by widespread home invasions.
Local sources reported that soldiers damaged property and confiscated gold jewelry and mobile phones. They also reported that soldiers assaulted and threatened residents and their families.
Several Palestinians were detained and interrogated before being released, while Mohammad Suleiman Ghanem, 31, and Suhaib Ammar Shahada, 23, were abducted.
Israeli forces also abducted Mohammad Fathi Sabah, a resident of Qaffin north of Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank, near the Barta’a junction in the Jenin area.
Across the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted five Palestinians after breaking into their homes and damaging their contents.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society identified them as Badr As’ous from Kufeirat south of Jenin; Eyad Ibrahim Kamel Houshiya from Al-Yamun west of Jenin; and Qusai Muadh Shawahna, Issa Khabbas, and Walid Ahed Jaradat from Al-Silah Al-Harithiya west of Jenin. Israeli troops also invaded the village of Marka southwest of Jenin.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded Jamal Abdel Nasser Park and detained a teenager on Amman Street during an incursion into the eastern section of the city.
Meanwhile, in Sinjil north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, Israeli colonizers invaded the town’s northern area and released livestock near residents’ homes.
Israeli authorities also issued a demolition and seizure notice for a residential apartment in Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Local sources said the ground-floor apartment is in a two-story building and belongs to political prisoner Abdullah Mahmoud Al-Khatib from Beit Rima. His wife and children live in the apartment.
Local sources added that Israeli authorities issued demolition notices against 34 Palestinian structures last month, including 13 in the Bethlehem Governorate, 10 in the Hebron Governorate, and five in the Jenin Governorate.
