Incursions, Arrests, and Ongoing Attacks by Settlers in the West Bank

SadaNews - Israeli occupation forces arrested today, Monday, 6 citizens including a journalist from Hebron, following the invasion of their homes, searching them, and tampering with their contents, and mistreatment of them.

Security and local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the citizens Muhammad Hashim Al-Haimouni, Adel Muhammad Al-Jaabri, and Shadi Nimer Shahada Burqan from Hebron city, and the journalist Lama Khader, while they arrested the young man Ma'an Naif Al-Badawi from the Al-Aroub camp north of Hebron, and the young man Laith Al-Halaika from the town of Al-Shyoukh northeast of Hebron.

The occupation forces also set up several military checkpoints at the entrances of Hebron and its towns, villages, and camps, and closed several main and secondary roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds.

Additionally, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, early this Monday.

Local sources reported that a force from the occupation army invaded the town and deployed its military vehicles in its streets, with no arrests reported.

The Red Crescent Society reported just before midnight that its teams in Ramallah dealt with an injury sustained by a young man after being shot in the thigh by the occupation forces near the Ram wall, and he was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

A child was injured this Sunday evening after being assaulted by occupation soldiers in the town of Awarta south of Nablus.

The director of the ambulance and emergencies center in the Red Crescent in Nablus, Amin Ahmad, said that ambulance crews dealt with the injury of a 14-year-old boy, following the assault, and he was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

Settlers also gathered on Sunday evening at the western entrance of the western rural area of Bethlehem Governorate.

A local source reported that a number of settlers gathered in the Aqbat Hassan area, at the main and only entrance to the towns of Nahalin and Battir and the villages of Husan and Wadi Fukin, which leads to the colonial bypass road No. 60, where they spread in the area amid provocations and attempted assaults on citizens' vehicles.

Settlers attacked the village of Burqa east of Ramallah just before midnight, setting fire to the health clinic in the village and a commercial truck, causing material damage and creating a state of panic among the residents.

Local sources reported that the settlers invaded the village unexpectedly, under the protection of occupation forces, which led to panic and tension among the villagers.