On Monday, Israeli occupation forces demolished a two Palestinian homes in the village of Marah Ma’alla, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers stormed the village after isolating it, and blocked civilian movement before carrying out the demolition, citing lack of Israeli-issued construction permits.
The soldiers demolished a three-story home; each floor of the building measured approximately 200 square meters.
They also demolished a 150-square-meter home under construction nearby. Both structures were authorized by the local Village Council and stood on land owned by Palestinian residents.
Meanwhile, in the Tulkarm refugee camp, located in the northwestern West Bank, Israeli bulldozers continued a wide-scale demolition campaign, targeting 104 residential structures, particularly in the Shuhada and Marba’a neighborhoods.
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The Israeli military claims the demolitions are necessary to clear and open new roads for its vehicles operating in the city, though rights groups and local officials condemn the move as part of a broader strategy to forcibly reshape the camp’s infrastructure.
The offensive on Jenin and Tulkarm has now entered its 174th consecutive day, with Israeli forces implementing engineering plans to empty refugee camps and impose a new reality on their future.
Elsewhere, Israeli bulldozers continued leveling farmland in the village of Raba, east of Jenin, in preparation for a military road near Jabal al-Masalma.
According to village council head Ghassan Al-Bazzour, the proposed route falls outside the previously designated seizure zones, prompting concerns of illegal land confiscation.
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The construction of the road is expected to cut off access to roughly 2,200 dunums of agricultural land located east of the illegal Annexation Wall, further severing residents from their livelihoods.
Also Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, storming homes, abducting Palestinians, in addition to killing a young man near Jenin; illegal Israel paramilitary colonizers also injured a man near Bethlehem and burnt a scrapyard near Ramallah.
On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces fatally shot a young Palestinian man, Yousef Walid Abdullah Ibrahim, 20, near the town of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
His killing raises the number of Palestinians slain since Israel launched its military offensive in Jenin 174 days ago to 42, alongside dozens of injuries and abductions.
On Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers conducted 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, Saifuddin Kamil Abdul-Karim Musallet, 23, and Mohammad Rezeq Hussein Shalabi, and injured many others, in addition to causing property damage in Sinjil town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
On Thursday evening, two Palestinian young men were killed, after an alleged stabbing attack which killed an illegal Israeli colonizer near the Gush Etzion colonial bloc, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed it, that the two young men, Mahmoud Yousef Mohammad Abed, 23, and Malek Ismail Abdul Jabbar Salem, 23, were killed south of Bethlehem, adding that the army confiscated their bodies.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and colonizers have killed 178 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 31 children and 6 women, and four killed by the illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
61 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 5 in Jerusalem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 1,013 Palestinians, including 204 children, 22 women, 17 elderly, and 1 journalist, in the occupied West Bank.
Among the slain Palestinians are 27 who were killed by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, 410 who were killed during Israeli invasions of Palestinian communities, and 290 who were extra-judicially executed. Israel still refuses to transfer the bodies of 245 slain Palestinians to their families for burial.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 58,386 Palestinians, including more than 17,131 children, 10,190 women, 4,147 elders, and 257 journalists. The number of wounded has reached 139,077, mostly children and women. Additionally, over 9,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be trapped under rubble across various areas of the devastated Gaza Strip.
