Local sources reported that a large contingent of Israeli troops carried out extensive raids across various neighborhoods in Qalqilya. The forces broke into homes and residential buildings, conducted searches, and assaulted some residents. Several Palestinians were subsequently detained.
The Commission and PPS said in a joint statement, that Israeli forces continues its systematic detention campaigns against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, which escalated in an unprecedented way after the 7th of October.
Soldiers assaulted protesters in the center of Hebron, shooting live and rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at them, injuring five, including a journalist, and causing many to suffer suffocation.
Israeli troops fired gas canisters directly at ambulances, paramedics and press crews east of Jabaliya in the besieged Palestinian territory. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed the report, but said all casualties received treatment on the spot, rather than in hospital.
They told WAFA that the occupation forces closed the Deir Sharaf checkpoint on a main road that connects Nablus to Jenin and Tulkarm and held and thoroughly checked Palestinian vehicles.
The sources reported that the occupation forces physically assaulted and beat up three worshippers, including an elderly man and elderly woman, near the Chain Gate. This violent assault occurred after the three had peacefully protested against an Israeli settler who blew a horn at the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The witnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the prayer hall, conducted searches, and vandalized parts of its contents while confiscating other items.
Israeli military and political figures declared that the military offensive on Jenin and its refugee camp was intended to kill or detain "terrorists" – Palestinian resistance fighters – who set off from Jenin to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in the occupied West Bank and the apartheid state itself.
In the north of the West Bank, Israeli forces conducted a military raid in the town of Tamoun, in the district of Tubas, that resulted in the detention of a 20 years old Palestinian youth.
Local activist Osama Makhamreh confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces stopped work on the Carmel-Tawana road, which serves residents of the Carmel and Tawana areas in Masafer Yatta.
In the northern Jordan Valley town of Tammoun, the Israeli forces detained two men, one of them 41 years of age, after breaking into their homes and searching them. One of the detainees was taken away to force his son to turn himself over to the army, according to the director of the Prisoner’s Society office in Tubas Kamal Bani Odeh.
In addition to the 15, the army detained another three from the Bethlehem district, one of them 16 years of age, two from Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, and two from Urif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, in addition to five detained in occupied East Jerusalem last night, said local sources for a total of 27 Palestinians ...
They said the forces broke into the camp, provoking the students and residents and firing tear gas in their direction causing many to suffer from suffocation.
Three Palestinians were detained in Isawiyya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem after special forces broke into their family homes and a fourth was detained in the street.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said soldiers raided Silwad, broke into the town’s sports club ransacking it as well as the home of the head of the PPS, Qaddoura Faris, to arrest his son, who was not home at the time and left him a summons to appear at a military base.