The Israeli forces have arrested at least 14 Palestinians, including a child, during raids in the occupied West Bank, amid attacks by illegal settlers that included the burning of property and the destruction of agricultural land.
Illegal Israeli settlers burned a residential room belonging to a Palestinian in the northern part of the town of Osarin, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources told Anadolu on Sunday.
They also set fire to a vehicle, partially burning it, and spray-painted racist slogans at the site, the sources added.
In Bethlehem, Israeli illegal settlers attacked the Khala'il al-Louz area east of the city, damaging irrigation pipes used for crops, cutting down trees, and damaging Palestinian property and agricultural land.
Illegal settlers also uprooted olive and grape trees from Palestinian-owned land in the village of al-Minya, east of Bethlehem, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In Nablus, Israeli forces raided the towns of Beita, Tell, and Beit Dajan, storming and searching several homes, Wafa added.
In Tulkarem, Israeli army and police vehicles raided the city, concentrating their presence in the city centre and market area, harassing Palestinians. Police issued traffic tickets to Palestinian vehicles, according to eyewitnesses.
The witnesses added that the army raised the Israeli flag on the minaret of a mosque in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem.
International warnings
Meanwhile, two Palestinians, including a child, from the village of al-Rashaydeh in Bethlehem, were detained during an incursion.
In Qalqilya, the army arrested six Palestinians after raiding the city and searching homes in the Kafr Saba and al-Naqqar neighbourhoods, according to Wafa.
The army also rounded up five Palestinians from the city of Tulkarem and another from the town of Beita during its incursions.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces closed the western entrance to al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the city, preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving. They also subjected some Palestinians to field interrogations and fired tear gas towards vehicles.
Local sources told Anadolu that the western entrance is currently the village’s only access point after the Israeli army closed its eastern entrance on Oct. 7, 2023.
According to the same sources, illegal Israeli settlers burned a tent, equipment and animal feed belonging to a Palestinian farmer on the outskirts of Burqa village, east of Ramallah.
The occupied West Bank has witnessed a surge in illegal settler attacks and Israeli military raids since the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, amid Palestinian and international warnings over the consequences of the continued escalation.
