Two Palestinian civilians were injured on Saturday night after being severely beaten by Israeli occupation forces in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.
The PRCS confirmed that its teams treated both individuals and transferred them to Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem for medical care.
One of the injured was identified as Ahmad Subhi Sanjaq, from the town of Ramin, east of Tulkarem in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces invaded his home, assaulted him, and abducted his brother, Ali Subhi Sanjaq.
Later in the evening, Israeli troops invaded the towns of Anabta and Bal’a, east of Tulkarem, as well as Deir al-Ghusoon to the north, deploying across main streets and disrupting the movement of vehicles and residents.
In related news, the PRCS said Israeli soldiers shot and moderately injured a young Palestinian man in the ar-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Furthermore, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian homes and threatened to burn them in the Wad Sa’ir area near Al-Minya village, southeast of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, causing anxiety attacks among the residents, especially children.
In addition, Israeli occupation forces continued, Saturday, to demolish residential buildings in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, as the military offensive on the camp and the city entered its 167th consecutive day.
Also Saturday, Israeli occupation forces illegally confiscated 5 dunums and 163 square meters of land from the towns of Sa’ir and Shiokh, in Hebron, located in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, under a military order citing “security and military purposes.”
It is worth mentioning that Saturday witnessed escalating Israeli violations by soldiers and illegal paramilitary colonizers against the Palestinian residents and their properties across the occupied West Bank.
On Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out numerous attacks against Palestinians, their homes, and their lands across several areas of the occupied West Bank.
The colonizers killed two Palestinians, including a Palestinian-American, while many others were wounded, and several properties sustained damage in Sinjil town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli soldiers also abducted a child and a young man in Salfit, in the central West Bank.
Since the beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 177 Palestinians, including 31 children and 8 women.
60 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, 5 in Jerusalem and 1 in Jericho.
