Israeli occupation soldiers invaded multiple areas across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Sunday, breaking into homes and abducting Palestinians in Nablus, Qalqilia, and Ramallah, while intelligence officers also stormed a home in occupied Jerusalem.
Media sources reported that Israeli forces invaded several neighborhoods in Nablus in the northern West Bank, including the Old City and its surrounding areas, before breaking into homes on Sufian Street.
Soldiers searched the properties, damaged their contents, and abducted two brothers, Walid, and Nael al‑Qouqa.
In Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted eight Palestinians during multiple invasions.
Troops stormed the city from its eastern entrance and spread through the Naqqar neighborhood, where they broke into several homes, searched them, and abducted Mohammad an-Neis after invading his family’s residence.
In a separate invasion, soldiers invaded the town of Azzun east of Qalqilia from its northern entrance, deployed throughout the as‑Safha and northern neighborhoods, and abducted Alaa Zaki Majd, Majdi Zaki Majd, Bara’ Adel Majd, and Adham Farouq Shbeita after breaking into and searching their homes.
Forces also invaded the village of Immatain, where military vehicles roamed several neighborhoods before soldiers abducted Osayd Barri, Zaid Barri, and Amjad Suwwan.
In Ramallah in the central West Bank, local sources said Israeli forces abducted university student Abdullah Hisham Riyahi after invading his family home in the village of Rantis west of the city and searching the property.
Israeli troops launch tear gas grenades towards a children’s school in Al-Mughayir village, northeast of Ramallah, causing inhalation injuries pic.twitter.com/s4kBqlicfb
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Also in Ramallah, the soldiers fired gas bombs and concussion grenades towards a children’s school in Al-Mughayir village, northeast of Ramallah, causing inhalation injuries
The soldiers also assaulted schoolchildren while heading to their school in the village, pushing them and forcing them to leave.
قوات الاحتلال تعتدي بوحشية على طفل في قرية المغير شمال شرق رام الله pic.twitter.com/twPmDA4mOQ
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In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli intelligence officers invaded the home of Yasser Darwish, a member of the Fateh Movement’s Regional Committee in the town of al‑‘Isawiya, where they caused extensive damage and summoned him for interrogation.
