On Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank, shooting and wounding Palestinians in several different locations.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot and wounded one Palestinian with live bullets while he was driving his car, causing the vehicle to overturn. Two passengers in the vehicle were injured in the crash.
The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on their vehicle near the Awarta checkpoint, south of the city of Nablus. The three wounded Palestinians were from the town of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus.
Palestinian Red Crescent sources reported that its crews dealt with three injuries as a result of the vehicle overturning after being shot by occupation soldiers.
Israeli forces also invaded Qalandia camp and the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, attacking Palestinian civilians, homes and businesses in an aggression that lasted for several hours.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews dealt with three injuries from live bullets, three injuries from rubber-coated metal bullets, one injury from assault, and 17 injuries from toxic gas inhalation. The injuries included a person with live bullets in the thigh, one by live bullet fragments, and one injury resulting from a beating.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that at least three citizens were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, in addition to dozens of cases of suffocation due to the firing of tear gas and sound bombs. A number of citizens were abducted during the large-scale raid carried out by the occupation forces in the town of Kafr Aqab and the Qalandia camp, which was accompanied by a heavy military deployment and extensive raids on homes and shops.
The governorate stated that the occupation forces abducted citizen Annan Muhammad Taha and his father Muhammad Taha, residents of Qalandia camp, and also detained and assaulted a number of citizens.
In a related context, the Israeli occupation forces stormed a number of residential buildings located at the entrance to Qalandia camp and climbed onto their roofs, amid a wide deployment of soldiers in the vicinity of the area. It also forced citizens, under threat and force, to evacuate three residential apartments inside the Hassan Awad building opposite the Qalandia Camp Mosque.
The Israeli occupation forces converted one of the vacated apartments into a military barracks after forcibly evacuating its residents. They announced their intention to continue using it until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Forces from the Israeli occupation army, police, border guards, tax authorities, and the occupation municipality participated in the raid, accompanied by a large number of bulldozers, cranes, and pliers.
The forces also raided dozens of shops, seized clothes bearing international brands, and quantities of eggs and meat under the pretext of not having a license, in addition to seizing cigarette packs under the pretext of not paying a tax to the occupying military authority.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli occupation forces seized the contents of an agricultural greenhouse opposite the camp, restricted the work of ambulance crews, and assaulted press crews during their field coverage. Israeli forces also fired sound bombs directly at school students in the area as they returned from school, in addition to seizing surveillance cameras.
In addition, the Israeli occupation forces began demolition operations on the main street extending from the Qalandia military checkpoint all the way to the town of Kafr Aqab, and attacked citizens’ vehicles. Some of them were destroyed and a number of others were seized, in addition to the expansion of an ongoing demolition operation.
The Israeli occupation forces also began removing billboards from the middle of the main street and in front of shops, and proceeded to demolish a store selling birds belonging to the citizen Iyad Fiala, and a monument to the late Mahmoud Awad (killed by Israeli forces), located at one of the entrances to the camp.
During the invasion, the Israeli occupation forces closed the Qalandia military checkpoint, which led to the detention of hundreds of citizens returning from or heading to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
