Following several killings of Palestinians – one killed by soldiers in Hebron and another killed by Israeli paramilitary colonizers south of Hebron – Israeli soldiers and settlers continued their attacks on the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank on Monday. This is in addition to the 100+ Palestinians killed by Israeli bombs in the Gaza Strip Monday.
A young man was shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at the northern entrance to Hebron city, Ras al-Joura .
Security and local sources told WAFA news that Israeli occupation forces stationed at the military checkpoint and the iron gate at the entrance to Ras al-Joura fired directly at a young man and prevented ambulance crews from reaching him. His identity or medical condition was unknown.
Israeli occupation police attacked a number of young men from Jerusalem on Monday evening.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli occupation police assaulted a number of young men in the Bab al-Amud (Damascus Gate) area and imposed fines on their stalls.
Also in Jerusalem Monday, Israeli authorities have issued a week-long ban on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the possibility of an extension.
Speaking to the local Wafa news agency, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein said he was summoned by Israeli intelligence for an interrogation.
The ban follows a sermon he led on Friday at the mosque, where he condemned Israel’s siege and starvation of Gaza’s population.
Israeli occupation forces stormed Khirbet Ibziq, north of Tubas, on Monday evening .
Human rights activist Aref Daraghmeh reported that the occupation forces stormed the village, searched the residents’ tents, and objected to the presence of foreign solidarity activists in the area.
Khirbet Ibziq, in addition to the northern Jordan Valley, is witnessing escalating attacks by settlers, in addition to incursions and violations by the occupation forces.
Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, on Monday evening .
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the occupation forces stormed Al-Khader and took up positions in the areas of “Al-Bawaba”, Sabri, and the vicinity of the Grand Mosque, without any reports of house raids or arrests.
Israeli paramilitary colonial settlers attacked shepherds in the Hamma area in the northern Jordan Valley on Monday evening.
Local sources reported that Israeli settlers attacked the shepherds, assaulted them with sticks and stones, and attempted to steal their livestock.
The northern Jordan Valley region is witnessing daily attacks by settlers who raid and assault citizens’ homes, steal and destroy their property, and pursue shepherds in pastures, assaulting them and their livestock.
Two Palestinians were injured on Monday evening in an attack by settlers on Umm al-Khair village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that settlers attacked citizens while they were on their lands and homes in the village, and opened fire at them, which led to a citizen being injured with live bullets. He was transferred by the occupation forces to an unknown location, while another citizen was injured after being beaten by a settler, and was subsequently transferred by Red Crescent ambulance crews to Yatta Governmental Hospital .
Makhamreh denounced the practices of settlers supported by the occupation forces, which aim to seize citizens’ lands and expand the area of settlement in villages and ruins south of Hebron.
After detaining two former Palestinian prisoners in recent raids across the occupied West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, Monday.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday evening obstructed the movement of citizens in Qalqilya city .
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the eastern entrance to Qalqilya, stopped citizens’ vehicles, and checked the IDs of their passengers, which hindered movement to and from the city .
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday notified Palestinians to stop construction on their property in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem .
Jamal Najajreh, head of the village council in Nahalin, told our correspondent that the occupation forces had issued a stop-work order on an inhabited villa belonging to Nabil Ishaq Najajreh, a two-story house under construction belonging to Khaled Ahmed Fanoun, and four agricultural rooms belonging to the brothers Theeb and Khader Abdul Hamid Najajreh, Mansour Musa Najajreh, and Mahmoud Muhammad Najajreh .
Najajra pointed out that the occupation forces also issued a stop-work order on a five-a-side football pitch in the Wadi al-Qara area, owned by Musa Hilmi Ghayathah .
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday bulldozed agricultural lands belonging to citizens of Khirbet Masoud, southwest of Jenin, to expand a pastoral settlement outpost.
The head of the village council in Zabad, Saleh Amarneh, explained that the occupation bulldozers began this morning to level lands and olive trees owned by citizens of Zabad and Khirbet Masoud. The occupation army placed orange markers on the lands planted with olive trees, whose owners have ownership papers and special land titles for them .
He added that the bulldozing is intended to serve and expand the pastoral colonial outpost established on the mountaintop in Khirbet Masoud, which was established in 2019. He noted that the settlers regularly assault farmers, spread their livestock across agricultural areas, and engage in acts of vandalism and destruction.
Khirbet Masoud is affiliated with the Zubdat Rural Council and consists of three population centers: Iraq al-Dawar, Khirbet Faris, and Khirbet al-Qusur. It is inhabited by approximately 350 people .
The occupation forces are bulldozing areas adjacent to the colonial outpost on the mountain, seizing dozens of dunams of agricultural land there. The area extends from Qaffin to the Ya’bad Mountains south of Jenin.
