An Israeli special force stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Sunday evening, with the operation focused on the Martyrs' Roundabout area in the city center. The raid resulted in the arrest of young man Khamis Abu Suriya, while the forces fired a barrage of tear gas canisters at citizens before withdrawing from the area.
In the context of field assaults, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams dealt with an injury to a 70-year-old elderly Palestinian man. The society clarified that the elderly man was severely beaten by occupation soldiers during the military operation in Nablus, necessitating his immediate transfer to the hospital for treatment.
The town of Beita, south of Nablus city, witnessed violent confrontations between Palestinian youths and occupation forces who stormed the town and raided a number of homes. Israeli forces used live ammunition and toxic gas canisters to disperse the demonstrators who pelted military vehicles with stones to express their rejection of the raid.
In Ramallah Governorate, occupation forces arrested young man Youssef Mohammed Naasan after raiding his commercial shop in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of the city. Local sources reported that a large military force deployed throughout the village and forced shop owners to close their doors under threat of arms.
The raid on Al-Mughayyir village included assaults on civil defense volunteers, as soldiers searched their vehicles and abused them in the field. The army also heavily fired sound bombs and tear gas towards homes, leading to cases of suffocation among citizens inside their houses.
In a related development, Israeli forces stormed the village of Shaqba, west of Ramallah, where they set up a military checkpoint in the center of the village to restrict movement. Occupation forces forced merchants to close their shops, a step that has been repeated in several areas of the West Bank as part of the collective punishment policy.
These escalations come within the framework of an intensive campaign launched by Israel in the West Bank since the start of the war on October 7, 2023. These assaults include killings, arrests, and settlement expansion, which observers describe as an actual prelude to the official annexation of large parts of the West Bank.
According to the latest official statistics, the number of victims in the West Bank since October 2023 has risen to at least 1,112 martyrs and about 11,500 injured. The number of Palestinian detainees in occupation prisons during this period has also exceeded 21,000 detainees, amid harsh detention conditions.
Red Crescent teams transported a 70-year-old elderly man to the hospital after he was severely beaten by occupation soldiers during the raid on Nablus city.