On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the archeological site in Sebastia Palestinian town, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Mohammad Azem, the Mayor of Sebastia, said several military vehicles invaded the town and headed to the archeological site.
He added that the soldiers closed the site to the Palestinians and installed a military roadblock in the center of the town.
The soldiers withdrew from the town a few hours after invading it; there have been no reports of protests or injuries.
Last Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers frequently invade Sebastia to accompany groups of colonialist settlers into the archaeological area, which the military wants to impose its full control on to prevent the Palestinians from entering it.
During these invasions, the soldiers block all Palestinian traffic, frequently storm homes, abduct Palestinians, attack protesters, and remove the Palestinian flag from the archeological area.
Late Monday night, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers killed Khalil Salem Khalil Ziyada, 40, and moderately injured three in Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Also Monday, Israeli forces killed Eyad Ayed Abed Najjar, 46, in the village of Janba, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
In addition, an Israeli drone strike assassinated five Palestinians, including two children, and injured others, on Monday night, in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources identified the five slain citizens as the child, Adnan Ayser Jaber, 15, the child, Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Alian, 16, Mohannad Kamal Mohammed Qaraawi, 20, Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril, 20, from Qalqilia, and Mohammad Ali Mustafa Youssef, 49.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have now killed 651 Palestinians, including 150 children and 9 women, in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023.
On Monday afternoon and at night, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians across the destroyed coastal enclave.
Israel has now killed at least 40,435 and injured more than 93,534, mostly children, women, and elderly, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, mostly under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, on destroyed streets and in bombarded alleys across the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
It is worth mentioning that Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that in the period between October 7, 2023, and August 21, 2024, Israel killed 48,380 Palestinians, (43,592 civilians) including 16,008 children, and 10,351 women, 522 healthcare professionals, 301civil defense workers, and 171 journalists, and injured 92,320.
