Local sources reported that clashes erupted in the city of Hebron after Israeli occupation forces stormed the city center, during which soldiers fired live ammunition, sound bombs, and tear gas, wounding two young men.
In Ramallah, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Sinjil at dawn, raided several homes, and arrested three young men. Another young man was also arrested after raiding his family's home in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of the city.
In occupied Jerusalem, the army blew up the apartment of Palestinian Mohammed Bassam Taha's family in the town of Qatana, northwest of the city, on the grounds that he carried out a shooting attack last month.
Sources indicated that large Israeli forces stormed the town, surrounded the residential building, forced its residents to evacuate, and prevented journalists from covering the incident, before rigging the apartment with explosives and completely destroying it.
The bombing comes about two weeks after the home of Muthanna Naji Amro's family was blown up in the town of Al-Qubeiba, northwest of Jerusalem. Israel accuses both Taha and Amro of carrying out a shooting attack on Israeli buses in the Ramot settlement in Jerusalem on September 8, killing six Israelis and wounding 30 others before they were killed by Israeli army gunfire.
Israel has adopted a policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, a policy that human rights organizations consider "collective punishment prohibited" under international law.
In a related development, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers on Friday as they were working on their land in the town of Beita, south of Nablus. Several of them suffered suffocation after Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters during a raid on the area.
WAFA reported that settlers attacked farmers in the Jabal Qamas area while they were harvesting olives, while occupation forces intervened to protect the settlers by firing tear gas and sound bombs at the Palestinians.
The olive harvest season in the Palestinian territories annually witnesses an escalation in settler attacks against farmers. Palestinians accuse the occupation army of providing protection to settlers during these attacks, as part of a policy aimed at tightening the noose on West Bank residents and expanding settlements.
In parallel with the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed at least 1,050 Palestinians, injured approximately 10,300, and arrested more than 20,000, including 400 children, according to official Palestinian data.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 67,194 martyrs and 169,890 wounded, most of them children and women, and causing a famine that claimed the lives of 460 Palestinians, including 154 children.
