Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers continued their assault on Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank on Tuesday. This follows a series of invasions on Tuesday before dawn.
Israeli occupation forces abducted three citizens from the town of Balaa, east of Tulkarm, following a massive raid that lasted about 15 hours.
Eyewitnesses and local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town since the dawn hours and carried out extensive raids and searches of citizens’ homes, including vandalism of property and tampering with its contents.
The sources added that the Israeli occupation forces detained dozens of citizens, especially young men, and took them to a field investigation center they set up inside the house of citizen Khaled Khader, after seizing it and turning it into a military barracks, where they were tied up and blindfolded, amid the deployment of snipers on the roof of the house.
The occupation forces abducted: Anwar Ahmed Amir Al-Wawi (63 years old), Mansour Hamdan Al-Hajj, and Ahmed Youssef Zariqi (34 years old), while releasing the rest of the detainees before withdrawing from the town.
Also Tuesday, Palestinian citizens confronted an attempt by colonists to seize a house in the town of Al-Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron.
Local sources told Wafa news that a number of heavily armed colonists stormed the town, raided a house and tried to seize it by force, but the local residents confronted them and prevented them from seizing the property by force.
Also in Hebron area, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Hebron and the village of Tabqa to the west.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Hebron, closed off the city center, and prevented citizens and their vehicles from passing.
These forces also stormed the village of Tabqa, west of the town of Dura, searched a number of homes, and caused material damage to them.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Deir Ghazala, east of Jenin.
Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the village, raided a number of homes, searched them, and destroyed their contents.
Also in the Jenin area, a special force from the Israeli occupation army kidnapped a young man from the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin.
Local sources said that an Israeli special force infiltrated the entrance to the town of Al-Yamoun in a civilian vehicle and kidnapped the young man, Ahmed Najeh Abu Hussein.
Two citizens were injured today, Tuesday, as a result of an attack by the Israeli occupation forces on them near the village of Barqa, northwest of Nablus.
The Red Crescent Society reported that two citizens (62 years old) and (24 years old) were beaten after the occupation forces opened fire on their vehicle and stopped it in the area, before they were transferred to the hospital to receive treatment.
Israeli paramilitary colonizers wounded three Palestinians in an attack on the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem.
The director of the municipality of Tuqu’, Tayseer Abu Mufareh, stated that Israeli colonists attacked citizens in the “Al-Matl” area, east of the town, and tried to steal their sheep and spray them with pepper gas, which led to the injury of three Palestinian citizens, identified as Murad Jibril and his family, who were brought to the town’s clinic to receive treatment.
It is noteworthy that the attacks of the occupation forces and colonists have escalated recently in various areas of Bethlehem Governorate, where they attacked citizens in Khalayel al-Louz today, sprayed them with pepper gas a few days ago, and bulldozed land and set up mobile homes on the lands of the village of Marah Maala, south of the governorate, earlier today.
On Tuesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces abducted a citizen and attacked sheep herders in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Media activist Osama Makhamra said that the occupation forces abducted citizen Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Hamamda from the Tal Ma’in area while he was on his land.
The occupation forces also attacked sheep herders in the “Rojoum Ali” area in Masafer Yatta, chased them and fired poison gas and sound bombs at them.
Colonists stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday morning, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that 120 colonists carried out the morning raid through the mosque courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals described as provocative.
In the central West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men from the city of Al-Bireh.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces aducted the young man, Haitham Siaj, after beating him and his brother Muhammad, after storming and searching his family’s home in the Umm al-Sharayat neighborhood and destroying its contents.
She added that those forces abducted the young man Imad Abu Awad, after his house was stormed and its contents tampered with in the city of Al-Bireh.
