Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces brought engineering equipment typically used in house bombings, while additional military reinforcements were dispatched to the vicinity of the targeted site.
The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (official) reported that preparations are underway to demolish the home of prisoner Abdel Rahman al-Haimouni, who is being held by Israel on the pretext of his participation in an operation carried out by a Palestinian group in Tel Aviv.
On June 24, the Israeli occupation army announced its intention to demolish the apartment where Al-Haymoni resided, accusing him of involvement in an attack targeting a Tel Aviv light rail station in early October 2024, which resulted in the deaths of seven people and the injury of 15 others, according to an official statement.
Last March, the occupation forces blew up two homes in Hebron belonging to detainees Ahmed al-Haimouni and Mohammed Misk, alleging their participation in the same attack. At the time, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility for the "Jaffa operation," identifying its perpetrators as Mohammed Rashid Misk and Ahmed Abdel Fattah al-Haimouni, both from Hebron.
This operation is part of an ongoing Israeli policy of demolishing the homes of prisoners and those accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, a policy that human rights organizations consider "collective punishment" prohibited under international humanitarian law.
In a related development, Israeli occupation forces continued their raids and arrest campaigns in the West Bank, with Palestinian sources reporting the arrest of approximately 30 citizens during raids across several cities and towns.
A security source told the official Wafa news agency that the occupation forces stormed the city of Bethlehem and arrested the young man Hamza Issa Ibrahim Suman (24 years old) from Al-Fawaghra Street, and Hadi Muhammad Nasser Al-Wahsh (26 years old) from Al-Saff Street area. They also arrested the citizen Nidal Yasser Daoud (48 years old) from the town of Al-Khader, south of the city, after raiding and searching his home.
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Under heavy military protection, Israeli bulldozers also began demolishing residential and agricultural structures in the agricultural suburb near Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, on the grounds of "unlicensed construction."
The area witnessed a widespread deployment of Israeli forces and the imposition of strict restrictions on the movement of residents.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli occupation authorities demolished a home in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood of Silwan, amid similar measures that included encircling the home and demanding that residents evacuate it before the demolition began, according to local sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.
In the city of Dura, south of Hebron, Israeli forces carried out an additional raid as part of the ongoing escalation across the West Bank.
According to a report by the Palestinian Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, the Israeli occupation army carried out 75 demolition operations during the month of July, affecting 122 facilities, including 60 inhabited homes, 11 uninhabited ones, 22 agricultural facilities, and 26 livelihood facilities.
In parallel with the genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed at least 1,013 Palestinians, injured about 7,000, and arrested more than 18,500, according to Palestinian data.Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to stop it.
The genocide, with American support, has left 61,158 Palestinians martyred and 151,442 wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that has claimed the lives of many.
