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Israel arrests 11 Palestinians in occupied West Bank; eight injured in illegal settler attacks
Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians, including a woman and an academic, during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, while eight others were injured in separate illegal Israeli settler attacks in Hebron and Nablus.
Israel arrests 11 Palestinians in occupied West Bank; eight injured in illegal settler attacks
FILE: Israeli soldiers keep watch during a weekly illegal Israeli settlers' raid in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 20 2026. / Reuters

The Israeli army arrested 11 Palestinians, including a woman, during raids across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, early on Wednesday.

In Qalqilya, Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians, while three others were arrested in Bethlehem governorate, according to the Prisoners' Media Office.

One Palestinian was arrested in Jaba south of Jenin, while a woman was arrested in the Iktaba village east of Tulkarem and two young men in Qusra village south of Nablus.

Northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian academic from the town of Biddu.

The army also raided dozens of homes in Madama village south of Nablus, subjecting residents to field interrogations, with no arrests reported.

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Separately, eight Palestinians were injured in illegal settler attacks on homes and property in the Hebron and Nablus governorates.

In Yatta south of Hebron, armed settlers attacked homes and farmland in the Wadi al-Rakhim and Khallet al-Hummus areas, injuring four Palestinians with pepper gas and uprooting about 60 trees, activist Osama Makhamra said. Illegal settlers also closed a road linking the two areas, he added.

In Burin village south of Nablus, illegal settlers from the Yitzhar settlement attacked a resident's home, assaulted a man and three of his sons and smashed two vehicles, Burin village council head Ibrahim Imran said.

Since October 8 2023, Israeli raids and illegal settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have killed 1,173 Palestinians, wounded 12,666, led to the arrest of about 23,000 and displaced 33,000, according to official Palestinian figures.

Palestinians warn that the attacks are paving the way for Israel to formally annex the occupied West Bank, which would end the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state under UN resolutions.

Israel was established in 1948 on lands occupied by armed Zionist groups, and in 1967 Israel occupied the remaining Palestinian territories, including the West Bank, Gaza and the eastern part of Jerusalem.

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SOURCE:Anadolu Agency