Reporter Motasem A Dalloul reported that Israeli occupation forces have raided 17 Palestinian villages since start of this night in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping 16 Palestinians from their homes.
Some of the Israeli invasions that were documented by local sources on Saturday night:
Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Qarawa Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, and raided a number of shops, conducting searches inside them and interrogating their owners.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern village of Al-Laban, south of Nablus, on Saturday evening, removed the Fatah flags erected on lampposts in the Shamiya neighborhood and around the old mosque, and set up a military checkpoint in the center of the village.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, on Saturday evening.
The head of the Al-Mughair village council, Amin Abu Alia, told Wafa that an occupation army force stormed the village, amid heavy firing of tear gas bombs towards homes, without any injuries being reported.
The village of Al-Mughayyir and the surrounding villages and towns have been subjected to repeated incursions by the occupation forces, in addition to the colonists’ ongoing attacks on citizens and their property.
Ramy Abdu| reported that Israeli forces brutally beat and kicked a young Palestinian man—even while he was handcuffed—after abducting him in the village of Nabi Saleh, in the occupied West Bank, simply for trying to save trees they were attempting to uproot.
In the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern area of the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.
Local sources reported to Wafa that the occupation forces raided the eastern part of the town, seized the home of citizen Marwan al-Qatsh and turned it into a military barracks. They also obstructed the movement of citizens in the area after arresting and interrogating them.
Israeli occupation forces closed the Karamilo checkpoint near the town of al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, triggering severe traffic congestion for Palestinians that has lasted for more than three hours.
Israeli forces storm the town of Beita, south of Nablus, launching flares overhead.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Deir Razeh in the town of Dura, south of Hebron.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation’s Interior Ministry is moving to officially register five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, including Havat Gilad, which sits on privately owned Palestinian land near Nablus.
Official recognition would allow these outposts to receive state funding, municipal services, and access to national infrastructure, while also enabling expanded construction under Israeli planning laws.
Under Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, settlement legalization has accelerated, with 25 settlements recognized in two months, aiming to reinforce Israeli control over Area C and block prospects for a Palestinian state.
