The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of Alaa Shawkat Khudair (29 years old) by the occupation forces' bullets in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, after he was shot in the chest. He was subsequently transferred to Rafidia Hospital, where medical sources told WAFA that he had died of his wounds.
WAFA reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beita amid heavy gunfire, which led to clashes in the area.
In a related context, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews transferred a 16-year-old child to the hospital who was shot in the back with live ammunition during the raid on the town of Salem, east of Nablus.
In the town of Bani Na'im, east of Hebron, the association said its crews treated six people suffering from suffocation due to tear gas inhalation, as Israeli occupation forces stormed the town, closed several roads, and deployed throughout its neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, five Palestinians, including two girls with disabilities, were injured in attacks carried out by settlers in various areas of the West Bank.
Anti-settlement activist Sami Makhamreh said that three citizens were injured and bruised after settlers attacked them near the village of Susya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Settlers attacked shepherds in the Umm Nir area, assaulted them, and attempted to steal some livestock.
He pointed out that the occupation army arrived at the site and arrested two citizens before releasing them later.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that settlers attacked two disabled girls at the entrance to the town of Sa'ir, north of Hebron. The settlers sprayed the two sisters, Dina and Dunya Yousef Jaradat, in their thirties, with an unknown liquid, causing severe redness in their faces and eyes. They were then taken to a medical center in the town for treatment.
In the Tekoa desert, east of Bethlehem, WAFA reported that settlers stormed pastoral areas, assaulted shepherds, and prevented them from reaching them.
In Jericho (east), settlers riding horses attacked the Arab al-Malihat Bedouin community northwest of the city, assaulting citizens and foreign activists using pepper spray, according to the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights.
Hassan Malihat, the organization's supervisor, said that the settlers had dried up a water channel in the "Auja Spring," which the Bedouin communities relied on.
He pointed out that "the settlers seized the water source and transferred it to the settlements in order to pressure the residents to evacuate them," depriving more than a thousand people and their livestock of water.
In Khirbet al-Deir in the northern Jordan Valley, settlers destroyed solar panels and water pumps as part of a series of attacks on agricultural infrastructure, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental).
In a dangerous development, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the occupation forces issued demolition notices on Thursday evening for 106 homes and buildings in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps within just 24 hours.
The agency explained that the occupation army attached red diagrams showing the targeted homes, and gave their residents 24 hours to evacuate their belongings.
Tulkarm Governor Abdullah Kamil told WAFA that the notices included 58 buildings in Tulkarm refugee camp and 48 homes in Nur Shams, as part of a systematic policy of demolition of camps.
In parallel with the genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the deaths of more than 959 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 7,000 others, and the arrest of 16,400 people, according to Palestinian data.