According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli settlers attacked the towns of Silwad, Ramon, and Abu Falah, east of Ramallah. An anti-settlement activist reported that the settlers set fire to at least 16 Palestinian vehicles and wrote racist slogans in Hebrew on citizens' homes, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, which later raided the areas.
During the clashes that erupted between Israeli forces and dozens of Palestinians, Ayyad, from the town of Silwad, died of asphyxiation from tear gas while attempting to extinguish fires in civilian vehicles, according to local sources.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, settlers continued their attacks, attacking the homes of the Nassar Rashaida family in the Wadi Ubayyan area southeast of Bethlehem. They stole solar cells and zinc panels, and systematically vandalized the contents of the homes, as part of ongoing attempts to forcibly displace residents and expand surrounding settlements.
Settlers also attacked civilian vehicles near the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, coinciding with raids carried out by the occupation army in various areas of the West Bank.
In Nablus, occupation forces arrested five Palestinians at dawn on Thursday during raids in the Rafidia area in the city center, as well as in Odla and Qusin, in addition to raids in Balata refugee camp and al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, according to WAFA.
An Israeli force also raided the Askar al-Jadid camp, detaining a number of Palestinians inside shops and inspecting surveillance cameras, before withdrawing without any reported injuries.
In Tulkarm, the occupation forces arrested a military medical services officer, Major Raed Mohammed Deeb Jabr, after stopping an ambulance at the Jabara checkpoint. Muhannad Abbas, a young man from Jenin, was also arrested while he was in the city's western neighborhood, where a heavy Israeli military presence was observed, including random searches of Palestinian vehicles and ID cards.
In Jenin, the occupation forces continued their crackdown on displaced residents of the camp, preventing a number of them from returning to their homes in the Ghabz area, as part of an ongoing aggression that began on January 21, leaving 44 martyrs and dozens more wounded and detained.
In Bethlehem, a Palestinian farmer from the town of Beit Fajjar was arrested after being detained with his family for hours on their farmland.
The West Bank has witnessed an escalation in attacks by extremist settlers. In recent weeks, they have launched several attacks on towns east of Ramallah, setting vehicles ablaze in the towns of Kafr Malik, Abu Falah, Beitin, and Burqa.
In parallel with the war of extermination, the Israeli occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed at least 1,011 Palestinians, injured approximately 7,000, and arrested more than 18,000, according to official Palestinian data.
Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 206,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and a famine that has claimed the lives of many.
