Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, abductions, and assaults across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting residents in Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jenin, while imposing widespread movement restrictions through military roadblocks and road closures.
In Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers abducted eleven Palestinians after invading several towns and breaking into homes, searching them, damaging property, and assaulting residents.
The abducted individuals included Tareq Aziz Ghraib from Tarqumiya; Murshid Abdul‑Mahdi Tmeiza, Ismail al‑Nattah, and Abdullah Adli Sawwad from Ethna; and Ahmad Eyad at‑Tarawa, Qusai Mohammad at‑Tarwa, Anas at‑Tarawa, Adwan Awni at‑Tarawa, and Esmeir at‑Tarawa from Sa’ir.
Anti‑colonization activist Osama Makhamra said Israeli forces also abducted elderly resident Ibrahim Ismael al‑Jabour and his son Anas from their home in Khirbet Huwwara east of Yatta, after they confronted illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers who released livestock around Palestinian homes.
In a separate incident, armed colonizers, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, released livestock around the home of Ibrahim al‑Jabarin in Shu‘ab al‑Batem in Masafer Yatta and attempted to assault his family.
Israeli forces 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.
Earlier Saturday, a Palestinian man was shot by Israeli soldiers during their pursuit of Palestinian laborers in the Wadi al‑Hummus area east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
Mohammad ‘Allan, head of the al‑‘Ubeidiya ambulance service, said Israeli forces chased laborers and opened fire at them in the area located between the village of al‑Khas east of Bethlehem and the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher.
A man in his thirties from Sa’ir, north of Hebron, was struck with live fire in the lower limbs and transferred to a hospital for treatment.
‘Allan added that Israeli forces have escalated their pursuit of laborers in Wadi al‑Hummus, injuring several in recent days.
Israeli forces also invaded Bethlehem, positioning themselves in the Bab az‑Zqaq area and along the main Jerusalem–Hebron Road near the Dheisheh refugee camp, firing concussion grenades and toxic gas toward the nearby al‑‘Azza refugee camp. No injuries were reported. Soldiers further invaded the town of Tuqu‘ southeast of Bethlehem.
In the central occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted a Palestinian man during an invasion of Kafr Ni‘ma village west of Ramallah, beating him with rifle butts and causing injuries that required hospital treatment. Soldiers also broke into several homes in the village without reporting abductions.
Additional invasions were carried out in Sinjil north of Ramallah, Deir Ghassana northwest of Ramallah—where soldiers invaded the home of former political prisoner Mahmoud Yousef Barghouthi—and at the entrance of the nearby village of Nabi Saleh.
In the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the town of Burqin west of Jenin, closing roads and conducting searches. In addition, the Soldiers abducted Ezzeddine Ziyad Sadaqa from the town of ‘Anza south of Jenin.
This report documents some of the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers across the occupied West Bank, but due to the ongoing and widespread nature of these attacks, it does not capture all incidents occurring on the ground.
