Earlier on Thursday, Israeli occupation forces launched coordinated invasions and abductions across multiple districts in the occupied West Bank, storming homes, refugee camps, and residential buildings in the northern, central, and southern regions. Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers also carried out attacks and property violations under military protection.
The invasions resulted in the abduction of several Palestinians—including a former political prisoner just one day before his wedding—and left at least one young man wounded by live fire near a university campus.
Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers abducted 15 Palestinians from the Al-Hathroura Bedouin community, located east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank.
This incident underscores Israel’s ongoing campaign to forcibly displace Bedouin communities and seize their lands for settlement expansion in areas it has maintained full control over since 1967.
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In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces stormed the city of Qalqilia, where they abducted a Palestinian woman, Imtiaz Rafiq, from the home of the Abdul-Ghani family in the city’s western neighborhood.
Several military vehicles also invaded the town of Kufur Qaddum, east of Qalqilia, closing streets and positioning themselves near the town’s eastern gate.
Also in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded several neighborhoods and refugee camps in Nablus.
Occupation troops fired live ammunition, stun grenades, and toxic gas at Palestinian youths near the academic district in Rafidia, injuring one young man during the invasion of areas surrounding the Najah National University and the nearby town of Beit Wazan.
Protests erupted in both the western and eastern parts of the city. In the eastern neighborhood of Khallet Al-Amoud, soldiers stormed a home, vandalized its contents, and abducted Abu George Jamous.
In the central West Bank, Israeli forces abducted Ward Basel Barghouthi from the village of Kafr ‘Ein, northwest of Ramallah, after invading and ransacking his family home.
In Birzeit, former prisoner Ahmad Al-Saifi was re-abducted following an invasion of his family’s residence—just one day before his scheduled wedding.
Al-Saifi had previously spent 16 consecutive years in Israeli prisons and was released months ago as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with the Palestinian resistance.
Further abductions in the Ramallah district included 18-year-old Mohammad Yousef Ma’tan from Burqa village, east of the city.
In Abu Shkheidim, northwest of Ramallah, soldiers abducted Mashhour Salama Abu Thaher, 48, and Qassam Ahmad Khatib, 34, after ransacking their homes.
Several homes were also violently searched in the village of Beit Sira, west of Ramallah.
Meanwhile, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian vehicle near Deir Nitham, also northwest of the city.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded Aida and Deheishe refugee camps, the city of Doha, and the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem district.
Soldiers stormed the home of Sami Hussein Hassan Mousa and vandalized its contents. No abductions were reported in these areas.
In the northeastern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded Al-Far’a refugee camp in Tubas with multiple military patrols, spreading across several neighborhoods.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, journalist Musab Qfeishe was abducted after Israeli forces stormed his home.
In the town of Shiokh, northeast of Hebron, two citizens—Hassan Mohammad Ahmad Tafesh and Amir Adnan Ahmad Tafesh—were also abducted, and two vehicles were confiscated during the invasion.
Meanwhile, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, illegal paramilitary colonizers—accompanied by Israeli soldiers—released livestock around the home of Farid Al-Hamamda, causing damage to agricultural lands and property.
