Martyrs and injured by occupation fire in the West Bank, and settlers attack olive farmers | news

A medical source reported to Al Jazeera that a Palestinian was martyred this evening, Sunday, by occupation forces’ bullets near the Mitar checkpoint (south of Hebron), and 6 others were injured by Israeli bullets during two separate incursions into the Al-Amari camp in the city of Al-Bireh and the town of Qabatiya (south of Jenin) in the West Bank.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces shot a young man at the Mitar checkpoint, leading to his death at the scene.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed the death of citizen Muhammad Bassam Tiyaha Shaar (20 years old) by Israeli bullets near the town of Al-Dhaheriya. The sources added that Red Crescent crews transported the martyr’s body to Dura Governmental Hospital.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces fired live bullets at citizens during their storming of the town of Qabatiya, wounding two young men. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also reported that its crews dealt with two serious injuries sustained by bullets from the occupation army in the town, and transferred them to Jenin Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces stormed Qabatiya and fired live bullets in the café area.

On the other hand, the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that the occupation forces stormed the Al-Amari camp “and fired bullets at the citizens, wounding 4 of them, one in the abdomen and another in the foot.”

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip also explained – in a statement – that two of the cases arrived at the Palestine Medical Complex in the city of Ramallah, “one of them in a serious condition in the abdomen.”

Storms and arrests

The occupation forces launched – at dawn today – a massive campaign of raids and arrests in various parts of the West Bank, including storming and searching Palestinian homes and assaulting their owners, in addition to subjecting a number of them to field investigations.

Some areas witnessed confrontations between young men and occupation soldiers during the response to the incursions. In Hebron, the occupation army arrested 5 Palestinians after raiding various neighborhoods in the city.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested the child Muhammad Ahmad Kharoub, in addition to Alaa, Nour Abu Safiya, and Fawzi Zaid, after storming the Jalazoun camp, north of the city.

Israeli forces also stormed the town of Kober, north of Ramallah, and arrested one of the liberated prisoners as part of the recent exchange deal, as part of the occupation’s continuing policy of pursuing liberated prisoners and threatening them with re-arrest.

As for Tulkarm, the occupation forces raided the southern neighborhood and arrested a person, while these forces carried out a campaign of raids on Palestinian homes in Ain al-Sultan camp, north of the city of Jericho.

In Nablus, large forces of the occupation army stormed the city from the direction of the Al-Tur checkpoint, and deployed in the neighborhoods of Al-Maajin, Krum Ashour, and Al-Makhfiyah, in addition to the Old City, where they fired tear gas bombs at the young men who responded to the storming with stones.

In occupied Jerusalem, a Palestinian worker was injured by bullets from the occupation army near the apartheid wall in the town of Al-Ram. The Red Crescent reported that the injured person was injured in the thigh and was taken to the hospital to receive treatment.

Israeli forces continue to pursue Palestinian workers near the wall in several areas, shooting or arresting them to prevent them from reaching their workplaces inside the occupied territories.

For his part, Shaher Saad (Secretary General of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions) revealed that since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces have caused the martyrdom of 44 Palestinian workers, and more than 30,000 arrests have been recorded against workers who are denied entry to their workplaces.

Settler attacks

Settlers continued their attacks against Palestinian olive pickers in the occupied West Bank, as part of an unprecedented wave of violence, according to what was reported by Israeli media.

Local sources reported that settlers attacked farmers in the town of Al-Mughayir (east of Ramallah) in the central West Bank, while they were carrying out their work of picking olives, and the attackers stole the olives before fleeing the place.

In the south of the West Bank, local sources said that settlers uprooted about 50 olive trees on land in the town of Shuyoukh (east of Hebron), which is owned by Palestinian Aref Mahmoud Aweidat.

Settlers in the town of Beit Awa (west of Hebron) also continued to plow more than 500 dunums of agricultural land, which they had begun a few days ago, in an attempt to impose control over it, according to the same sources.

The sources indicated that these settlers came from the Najhot settlement, stormed the town’s lands and continued plowing work, as they sought to control the lands extending between the village of Sikkah and the town of Beit Awa, which has an area of ​​more than a thousand dunums of fertile plains.

These developments come within the framework of a noticeable escalation in settler attacks in the West Bank, with the advent of the olive harvest season, which usually begins in the second third of October each year.

According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority (governmental), settlers carried out 7,154 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during the two years of genocide in Gaza, causing the death of 33 citizens and the displacement of 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities. They also established 114 settlement outposts.

During the past two years, the escalating wave of violence in the West Bank resulted in the death of 1,058 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,000 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 people, including 1,600 children.