On Friday, Israeli occupation forces continued their attacks on the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank’s central part, storming several homes and converted them into military outposts after forcibly expelling their inhabitants.
Local sources said the occupation forces invaded homes belonging to the families of Ismael Hikmat Abdul-Rahman, Barakat Taleb Barakat, Fares Mustafa Abdul Rahman, Hussein Asaad Khater, and Ali Rakez Mustafa Khater, forcing them to leave their homes, and forbidding them from returning for three days, as the houses were turned into military bases.
The sources reported that the soldiers also abducted young man Tayseer Mohammad Samara and confiscated approximately 4,000 Jordanian dinars from the home of Palestinian citizen Mamoon Rasem Abdul-Rahman.
The invasion was accompanied by widespread destruction, property searches, and field interrogations inside homes.
The soldiers also intensified their military presence in the town, surrounding residential areas, imposing a strict blockade, and preventing entry and exit.
Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers began leveling large swaths of Palestinian-owned land in the same area.
The soldiers also initiated a massive invasion of Kafr Ed-Deek, west of Salfit, storming and ransacking dozens of homes, amidst field interrogations and assaults.
In addition, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers burnt a Palestinian bulldozers in the outskirts of the town.
On Thursday evening, a shooting incident near Bruqin town, which resulted in the death of an Israeli colonizer.
Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, responded to the shooting by stating that the Palestinian towns closest to the location of the shooting, Bruqin and az-Zawiya, should be “flattened like cities and towns in Gaza.”
For the past two days, Israeli forces and paramilitary colonizers have intensified their assaults on Palestinian civilians and their properties across towns and villages in Salfit. On Friday at dawn, the colonizers burnt fourteen Palestinians cars and hurled a firebomb at a home in Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit.
Early Friday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked the Al-Masoudiya area, northwest of Nablus, setting fire to a vehicle and targeting a municipal water well.
On Friday at dawn, the illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers burnt fourteen Palestinians cars and hurled a firebomb at a home in Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit in the central West Bank.
In related news, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man in the town of Bal’a, east of Tulkarem, in the northwestern West Bank.
Local sources reported that the soldiers stormed the home of 21-year-old Mohammed Dirar Shahrour ands abducted him after violently searching and ransacking the property.
The sources added that occupation forces stationed themselves in the Al-Ras area of the town, where they forcibly removed the entrance gate of a commercial shop, ransacked its contents, and blocked residents and vehicles, subjecting them to searches and field interrogations
On Thursday, Israeli occupation soldiers killed five Palestinians in Tammun town, south of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
- Wadea’ Eyad Ahmad Bani Odah (19 years old)
- Ibrahim Yassin Ahmad Bani Odah (24 years old)
- Rida Kamal Mahmoud Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Islam Azmi Hussein Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Saher Nabil Bisharat (23 years old)
Also on Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian child and abducted a woman during an attempt to repel an attack by illegal paramilitary colonizers, in Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Tuesday evening, two Palestinians were injured, one of whom was later abducted by Israeli soldiers, after illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, backed by occupation troops, invaded Khallet ad-Dabe’ village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers also abducted a university professor from her home in Doura town, southwest of Hebron, and a young man from Nablus.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
As the Israeli genocide in Gaza intensifies, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their military offensive across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of more than 978 Palestinians, injuring thousands, and abducting over 17,000 people since October 7, 2023.
281 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 210 in Tulkarem, 116 in Nablus, 92 in Tubas, 83 in Hebron, 63 in Ramallah, 53 in Jerusalem, 36 in Qalqilia, 26 in Bethlehem, and 12 in Jericho and northern plains.
This year alone, 143 Palestinians, including 24 children and 5 women, have been killed in the West Bank, one of the slain Palestinians was killed by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
In the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, the ongoing Israeli genocide has resulted in the killing of more than 52,928 Palestinians, including at least 15,626 children, 9,807 women, 3,855 elderly individuals, 237 journalists, and 23 medics. At least 119,864 people—mostly children, women, and the elderly—have been wounded since October 7, 2023.
