The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement Thursday evening that its crews "treated three people injured by Israeli army gunfire in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron (southern West Bank), and they were transferred to the hospital," without providing details about their health conditions.
In a previous statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews "treated two people injured by Israeli army gunfire in the town of Idhna."
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that "Israeli forces stormed the town with a number of military vehicles, deployed on the roads and around citizens' homes, and prevented their movement, amid heavy firing of live ammunition, sound bombs, and tear gas, which led to injuries from bullets."
Meanwhile, the Israeli aggression and demolition operations continue for the fourth consecutive month in the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian activist Suleiman al-Zuhairi said that Israeli soldiers climbed onto the dome and minaret of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the camp and raised the flag of the occupying state above them.
Al-Zuhairi pointed out that Israeli bulldozers continue to demolish homes and infrastructure surrounding the mosque in the camp.
On January 21, the Israeli occupation army launched Operation Iron Wall in the Jenin refugee camp, and a week later, it expanded to the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps.
In early May, the army announced its intention to demolish 106 Palestinian buildings in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps. It attached maps marking the targeted sites with red dots and provided copies of the maps to the Palestinian authorities .
The army has already demolished a number of buildings in Nour Shams camp, but the military siege and lack of field access have prevented verification of the exact number of buildings destroyed.
settlement expansion
The Israeli occupation forces' aggression against West Bank cities and camps coincided with attacks carried out by settlers on Palestinian property.
In the same context, WAFA reported that settlers yesterday, Thursday, placed a tent and a caravan (mobile home) on Palestinian land in the town of Bruqin, north of the West Bank, under the protection of the occupation army.
WAFA reported that the tent and caravan were set up in the Balata area, north of the town of Bruqin, amid reports of settlers posting provocative calls on their media platforms to carry out attacks on the town.
This comes a week after a widespread escalation in Bruqin, where settlers set fire to a number of Palestinian vehicles last Thursday and attempted to set fire to homes on the outskirts of the town, resulting in eight Palestinians sustaining burns.
Prior to that, the town was subjected to an Israeli aggression that lasted for about nine days (May 14-23), during which a young Palestinian man was martyred, homes were stormed and turned into military barracks, and a number of young men were arrested, under the pretext of searching for the perpetrator of a shooting attack that resulted in the death of an Israeli woman and the injury of her husband.
The aggression coincided with attacks carried out by settlers that continued even after the army's withdrawal, including the burning of homes and vehicles and the bulldozing of dozens of dunams of agricultural land.
According to the official Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 231 attacks in April, including vandalism and theft of property, targeting large areas of Palestinian land.
In parallel with the annihilation of Gaza, the occupation army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of at least 972 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 7,000, and the arrest of more than 17,000, according to Palestinian data.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been waging a war of extermination in Gaza, leaving more than 177,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
