Widespread Israeli Raids Carried Out in the West Bank
Featured image: Settler outpost in the West Bank. Source: Palestine Chronicle
Widespread raids have been carried out by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, among them overnight raids, establishing outposts and launching coordinated attacks against Palestinian properties, homes and farmland on Sunday the 28th.
The latest incursions into Palestinian territory were carried out across six different governorates, with Israeli troops conducting house raids, arrests and road closures, as settlers assaulted residents, damaged agricultural land and targeted Palestinian property, often under the protection of occupation forces.
The raids targeted Nablus, Jenin, Hebron (Al Khalil), Bethlehem, Ramallah and occupied Jerusalem, including the villages of Al-Mughayyir, Madama, Burqa, Sebastia, Zabuba, Arabouna and Marka, as well as Qalandiya refugee camp and the towns of Beit Sahour, Sa’ir, Al-Shuyukh and Kharsa.
In Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, occupation forces fired tear gas and stun grenades toward Palestinian youths.
Further south, Israeli forces reinforced the village of Madama, south of Nablus, sealing the village’s entrances with earth mounds, after bringing in additional military vehicles.
Continuing their campaign of nearly daily arrests in the West Bank, five Palestinians were arrested in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, one was arrested in Beit Sahour, another during the raid on Qalandiya refugee camp.
Israeli settlers also established a new outpost in the northern West Bank, in addition to starting the rebuilding of another recently evacuated outpost in Beit Einot Hill. The established pastoral settlement outpost in the northern West Bank comes as part of a strategy combining settlement construction with agricultural and grazing activities to expand control over surrounding Palestinian land.
