Israeli occupation forces invaded several areas across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Monday, abducting at least 64 Palestinians, demolishing a residential room, confiscating vehicles, and imposing widespread movement restrictions through military roadblocks and road closures.
In Ramallah in the central West Bank, soldiers invaded the At‑Tireh neighborhood of the city and the nearby village of Al‑Taybeh to the east, where they broke into homes and abducted three Palestinians.
Local sources said the army abducted Wafa’ Yousef Abu Ghalmi after breaking into her home in At‑Tireh, while another unit abducted the brothers Ra’ef and Ramzi Abdullah Khoury from their homes in Taybeh.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces fired tear‑gas bombs toward homes east of the village of Al‑Mughayyer, northeast of Ramallah, during the second consecutive day of invading the area.
Later in the morning, Israeli forces demolished a residential room in the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah.
The head of the Ni’lin municipality, Yousef Al‑Khawaja, said soldiers accompanied by bulldozers invaded the town and demolished a room belonging to Raed Srour, who had rebuilt it on the rubble of his home and his brother’s home, both demolished by the army in April of last year. The army had issued stop‑work orders for several structures in Ni’lin last Thursday.
In the Northern Plains of the West Bank, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded Khirbet al‑Maita Bedouin community in northeastern West Bank’s Jordan Valley region, before breaking into barns and attacking livestock.
In addition, the soldiers invaded the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho in the eastern occupied West Bank, and abducted a young Palestinian man after breaking into his home.
Eid Barahma, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, said that a large Israeli military force invaded the refugee camp at dawn, broke into the home of Ali Mazen Yousef, ransacked the property before abducting him.
In Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the village of Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, south of the city, where they broke into the home of Eyad Nathmi Oweis and abducted him. Soldiers also confiscated several Palestinian‑owned vehicles during the invasion.
In Jenin in the northern West Bank, the army invaded the town of Ya’bad, south of the city, and carried out a large‑scale campaign of home invasions.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said the soldiers abducted several residents, including Nawras Kabaha, Yazid Abu Aabed, Fares Herzallah, Firas Kabaha, Arwad Abu Bakr, Saleh Abbadi, and Eslam Hamarsha.
Further invasions took place across Nablus, where soldiers entered several neighborhoods in the city, searched homes, and abducted Ra’fat and his brother Mohammad Hosni Al‑Jab’i from the Rafidia area, as well as Khaled Samer Esteitiya from the Yasmina quarter in the Old City.
Soldiers also invaded the villages of Beit Furik east of Nablus, Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, Qaryut to the south, and Deir Sharaf to the west, where they broke into homes and abducted Thikra Ra’fat Nasser, 22, from Deir Sharaf.
In addition, Israeli forces confiscated large areas of land classified as Area B in the village of Iraq Burin, south of Nablus.
In Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted six Palestinians from multiple areas. From the town of Al‑Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron, soldiers abducted Mahmoud Samer Oweidat, Abdel Nasser Thaer Halaiqa, and Ismail Mohammad Ali Halaika. In Hebron city, they abducted Odai Yasser Abu Turki, while in the Al‑Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, they abducted Ayman Dadra after breaking into homes and ransacking their contents.
In the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, media activist Mohammad Awad said soldiers invaded the Al‑Baq’a, Al‑Bayada, and industrial‑zone neighborhoods, using police dogs during home invasions and smashing doors, furniture, and personal belongings. Awad added that soldiers abducted a child, Mahmoud Ribhi Ahmad Ekhlayyel, 15.
In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli forces detained teacher Khader Al‑Nawaj’a while he was on his way to Palestine Mixed Elementary School in the Ashkara area.
Israeli forces also installed multiple military roadblocks at the entrances of Hebron city, its towns, villages, and refugee camps, and closed several main and secondary roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds.
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted more than 40 Palestinian workers from the occupied West Bank near the Al‑Za’im military roadblock east of the city. Local sources said the workers were detained while trying to reach their workplaces.
