On Friday before dawn, the Israeli military continued its pattern of invading Palestinian areas in the dead of night while Palestinian residents are sleeping, and rousing residents from slumber with live gunfire, abductions and destruction of property.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in Nablus city, raided a number of homes and a commercial store.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the neighborhoods of Asira, Tal, At-Tur, Al-Makhfiyya and Rafidia, raided a number of homes, searched them and ransacked their contents.
The sources added that Israeli occupation soldiers removed the gate of an agricultural equipment store in the eastern complex before raiding and searching it.
Also in the north, Israeli occupation forces abducted five Palestinian citizens from Burqin town, west of Jenin, including two brothers and their father.
Local sources said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town, raided the home of freed prisoner Sultan Khalouf, and abducted his father and two of his brothers.
They also abducted Khaled Asi and Anan Darwish Asi after raiding their homes, while Israeli occupation forces raided and searched a number of homes in the town.
The Israeli occupation forces continued their ongoing assault on the Khalouf family home and the Khalouf office in Burqin for more than two months, searching for him and arresting members of his family to pressure him to surrender .
In the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) abducted a young man from Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem , on Friday before dawn.
The Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces arrested Muhammad Jihad Taqatqa (26 years old) after raiding and searching his father’s house.
Also in the southern West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in Hebron city and Deir Samet town, southwest of Hebron, and searched several houses.
The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in Hebron and raided the homes of detainees Omar Obaid, Maher Obaid, and Daoud Abu Za’nouna, and searched warehouses and lands adjacent to citizens’ homes in the Asa area, west of the city.
The occupation forces also stormed the town of Deir Samet, southwest of Hebron, and searched several homes and ransacked their contents.
Israeli forces also stormed the town of Anata, near Jerusalem. No casualties were reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the settlers’ aggression last night on the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit, and their crimes of burning citizens’ properties under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed in a statement on Friday that the crimes of the settlers are organized and planned in an attempt to displace our people, as is constantly happening in Masafer Yatta and the Jordan Valley, and that what happened yesterday, the forced displacement of the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir, east of Ramallah, under the pressure of the settlers’ attacks, is part of the crimes of displacement and annexation that the Palestinian people are being subjected to, and a form of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing committed by the occupying state and its extremist government, through the distribution of roles between the settlers’ militia and the occupation army.
In this context, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that it is continuing its contacts and efforts with countries, institutions, and international legitimacy councils to push for urgent interventions to halt the violations and crimes perpetrated by the occupation and its settlers against our people, documented in photos and videos, to provide international protection for our people, and to impose deterrent sanctions against the elements of colonial terrorism and those who stand behind, protect, and finance them.
