Israeli forces, settlers launch new raids across West Bank
The Israeli regime forces and settlers have launched multiple raids across the West Bank causing damage to Palestinian properties and desecrating the holy sites in the occupied territory.
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Israeli special forces, followed by military reinforcements from the Jalameh checkpoint, stormed the eastern neighborhood, raided a house, and turned it into a military post, while surrounding another house.
Local sources said the troops conducted a widespread arrest campaign among the residents interrogating them.
The city of Qalqilya was also scene of violent raids by Israeli forces where they razed agricultural lands surrounding the eastern entrance to the city.
According to Ahmed Eid, Director of the Qalqilya Agriculture Directorate, the bulldozing has affected at least six dunams of cultivated land, resulting in the uprooting and destruction of hundreds of fruit trees and destruction of the water pipeline supplying the cultivated land.
He added that the land-leveling operations began about a month and a half ago and have affected several sites extending to the east, south, and west of the military camp located at the city's eastern entrance.
The Palestinian holy sites were also targeted as Israeli settlers stormed Islamic shrines, late on Tuesday night, in the town of Kafr Haris, north of Salfit desecrating them by performing Talmudic rituals and lighting fires, amidst shouting and intimidation directed at the residents.
Israeli forces intensified their military presence at the town's main entrance, closing shops and preventing residents from moving around on several side roads within the town, in order to secure the colonist' incursion, which continued until dawn.
During the incursion, colonists vandalized water meters and hurled stones towards residents' homes.
Further damage was inflicted to the Palestinians in the occupied Ramallah where Israeli settlers set fire to two vehicles and spray-painted racist slogans during an attack on the village of Ein Yabrud.
This attack is the latest in a series of organized attacks by colonists, under the full protection by Israeli forces, which have included burning Palestinian property, directly targeting shepherds, blocking secondary roads, and raiding several villages in recent weeks.
Israeli forces and settler attacks against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have dramatically surged since the regime began its genocidal war on Gaza Strip in October 2023.
