Eighteen Palestinians were injured on Wednesday during raids carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in various areas of the occupied West Bank, which included arrests, shootings, assaults, and the conversion of homes into military barracks.
In Balata camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, 16 Palestinians were injured during an Israeli army raid, according to the Ministry of Health, which said all injuries were stable. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces converted a number of homes in the camp into military barracks after forcibly evacuating their residents, and ransacked the contents of the homes they raided.
In the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the army raided the towns of Ya'bad and Rummana. A young man was injured by live bullet shrapnel in his hand and waist during the raid on Ya'bad. Soldiers also assaulted a child playing with his bicycle and confiscated surveillance camera footage from several homes, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In the town of Rummana, west of the city, Israeli forces turned 11 homes into military barracks after expelling their residents. In the town of Meithalun, south of the city, the army arrested two citizens after raiding their homes.
Adalah, the Arab-Israeli human rights center, said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court had authorized the "mass demolition" of Palestinian homes in the Jenin refugee camp. The center said in a statement, a copy of which was sent to Anadolu Agency, that the Israeli court on Tuesday rejected an urgent petition it had submitted on June 12 to halt the widespread demolitions in the Jenin camp. The court's refusal, it added, "means giving the Israeli army the green light to continue destroying approximately 90 civilian structures in the West Bank."
In the village of Einabus in Nablus (north), the army stormed the village and surrounded the home of a Palestinian man it had previously killed, in preparation for its demolition, according to the state-run Palestine TV.
In the central West Bank, the Israeli army stormed the town of Deir Qadis, west of Ramallah, raiding several homes of former detainees, assaulting residents, and threatening to re-arrest them, according to the WAFA news agency.
A video clip broadcast by the official Voice of Palestine radio station on Wednesday showed three Palestinian children being abused by the Israeli army while being detained in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The video shows soldiers violently leading the three children one by one, kicking them, before handcuffing them with plastic handcuffs.
In northeast Jerusalem, Israeli forces installed an iron gate at the main entrance to the town of Anata after storming it, according to a statement from the Jerusalem Governorate. The governorate described the move as part of a "systematic policy to restrict Palestinian movement, fragment Palestinian towns, and deepen the geographic and social isolation between them."
In Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces opened fire on a group of workers east of the city, wounding one of them with a bullet to the knee, according to the WAFA news agency.
In the southern city of Hebron, Israeli forces raided several neighborhoods simultaneously, raiding and searching homes and closing main roads, according to the same source. In the town of Yatta, south of the city, Israeli forces arrested three citizens and confiscated one of their vehicles after settlers attacked shepherds in the area, according to human rights activist Osama Makhamreh in a news briefing distributed to journalists.
Meanwhile, the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported that Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Auja community north of Jericho (east), in a "provocative move that threatens the safety of residents." The organization noted that "these practices aim to push residents toward forced displacement and are taking place under the protection of the Israeli army."
These violations come as Israel has imposed a tight blockade on the West Bank for the seventh consecutive day since the start of its aggression against Iran last Friday. The West Bank has been transformed into a vast prison by imposing severe restrictions on Palestinian movement, closing major roads, bringing their lives to a near-total standstill and exacerbating their suffering.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left more than 185,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and famine claimed the lives of many, including children, as well as widespread destruction.
