Taghribnews (TNA) - Nearly a dozen Palestinians killed, scores injured in new Israeli raids on West Bank

Nearly a dozen Palestinians killed, scores injured in new Israeli raids on West Bank

Israeli soldiers and settlers have conducted new raids against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank leaving nearly a dozen people dead and scores more injured.

Two Palestinians killed in Jenin, bringing the number of martyrs in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours to 11.

The two, both in their early 30s, were martyred by Israeli occupation forces’ live bullets in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that the IOF prevented ambulance crews’ access to the scene.

According to eyewitnesses, the IOF besieged a house in the village, and opened fire at it, which resulted in the injury of a number of people.

Israeli occupation forces conducted a series of detentions across the West Bank since last night until this morning, rounding up at least 26 people including siblings and former prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS).

According to PPS, this latest wave of detentions brings the total number of Palestinians arrested in the occupied West Bank since October last year to more than 10,000.

Meanwhile, scores of extremist Jewish settlers stormed on Tuesday evening Yatma town in the south of Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank, and set fire to a house and a commercial facility.

According to local sources, over 150 settlers attacked the town’s outskirts and set ablaze a house and a car salvage yard, as well as a swath of agricultural land.

Since October 7, 2023, government-backed settler crimes across the West Bank has intensified, while the Israeli occupation forces have been conducting violent and deadly raids on Palestinian cities, towns and villages, especially in Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem, on a near-daily basis.