West Bank: Raids and Arrests; In the Jordan Valley, Forced Relocation of Two Families

SadaNews - Last night and early Saturday, the occupation army launched a series of raids in various areas of the West Bank, including the arrest of 4 Palestinians, among them a child, after storming several homes and damaging their contents. In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces stormed the village of Triangle of Martyrs south of the city, and arrested 3 young men after raiding their homes, while another Israeli force raided several other houses, vandalizing their contents and conducting field interrogations with residents. In Tubas, an occupying force last night arrested the child Muhammad Wael Faris Daraghmeh (17 years old), after holding him for several hours while passing through the Hamra military checkpoint. Additionally, the towns of Tuqu' and Dar Salah, Zaatra, and Beit Fajjar in the Bethlehem governorate in the southern West Bank witnessed Israeli incursions, with no reports of arrests. Northern Jordan Valley under continuous attacks On another front, two Palestinian families were forced to leave their homes in the Makhul area of the northern Jordan Valley due to the escalating violence perpetrated by settlers under the protection of the Israeli occupation army. According to "Wafa" citing local sources, the two families demolished their homes and moved to the Al-Auja area near Jericho after the increase in settler attacks. It is worth noting that the Makhul area experienced an attack by settlers on Thursday evening, which included firing in the air, and assaults on citizens and their properties, with the theft of dozens of heads of livestock and the killing of more than 100 heads. The area is witnessing a significant escalation in violent attacks by armed settlers against residents and their properties, as part of a continuous pressure policy to force them to leave their land. Jerusalemites forced to vacate residential building In occupied Jerusalem, on Friday evening, residents began vacating a residential building containing 6 apartments of their belongings to demolish it themselves under pressure from the occupying municipality in Jerusalem. According to local sources, the Halwani family vacated their residential building in the Beit Hanina neighborhood in preparation for self-demolition as mandated and forced by the occupation municipality, indicating that 25 individuals, mostly children, live in those apartments. It is noteworthy that residents find themselves compelled to demolish their homes voluntarily to avoid paying hefty fines and fees for the municipality's demolition machinery, where the cost of demolition amounts to hundreds of thousands of shekels.