The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement: "Our crews in Hebron are dealing with a 16-year-old boy injured by a sound bomb in the face," adding that the injured child was taken to the hospital for treatment.
In turn, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, quoted the director of the Beit Awa municipality, southwest of Hebron, Muhammad Masalma, as saying, "The (Israeli) occupation forces stormed the town and fired sound bombs and tear gas at the citizens."
Masalma added: "During the withdrawal of the occupation forces, the student at Beit Awa School, Nazih Iyad Awad (16 years old), was targeted with a sound bomb to his head while he was leaving for school," indicating that the injured person's condition is "critical."
Meanwhile, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, stormed the village of Al-Funduq, east of Qalqilya, on Monday, and surrounded a two-story stone house.
The occupation forces also demolished two homes after besieging them in the village of Marj Ghazal, north of Jericho, according to WAFA.
In the same context, occupation forces prevented farmers from reaching their lands in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, to harvest olives, forcing them to leave.
Arrest campaign
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 21 Palestinians, including a Hamas leader, during raids and harassment operations in the occupied West Bank.
The Prisoners' Information Office (non-governmental) said in a statement on Monday that "the occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and field investigations on Monday."
He added that the arrests included at least 21 citizens from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, among them the former mayor of Al-Bireh, Jamal al-Tawil, in the central West Bank.
Al-Tawil is a Hamas leader in Ramallah and was one of its candidates in the 2021 parliamentary elections, which were not held after Israel refused to hold them in Jerusalem.
He was exiled to the town of Marj al-Zuhur in southern Lebanon in 1992 for a year, along with other leaders from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements. He returned to Ramallah in 1993.
Al-Tawil has been subjected to successive arrests since 1994, most recently in 2023. He was repeatedly administratively detained for varying periods, spending a total of more than 18 years in detention.
As for the rest of the arrests today in the West Bank, they were distributed in the cities of Hebron and Bethlehem (south), Jericho (east), and Nablus and Tulkarm (north).
At dawn on Monday, Israeli occupation forces detained 15 freed prisoners from Aqabat Jaber camp, south of Jericho, and assaulted them, according to WAFA.
Also, at dawn today, occupation forces arrested six citizens from the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, after raiding a number of citizens' homes, searching them, and vandalizing their contents.
The occupation army typically does not announce the reasons for arrests, but they often come as part of what Tel Aviv calls "security campaigns" against those it deems "wanted." Palestinians describe them as punitive measures targeting faction activists, released prisoners, students, and political figures, aimed at weakening any organizational or field activity in the West Bank.
More than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, are languishing in Israeli prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect, many of whom have died, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
The West Bank has been experiencing an Israeli escalation that has resulted in the deaths of 1,059 Palestinians and the injury of nearly 10,000 others over the past two years, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 people, including 1,600 children.
On October 8, 2023, Israel began a two-year genocide in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 68,519 Palestinians and the injury of 170,382 others. The operation ended with a ceasefire agreement that went into effect on October 10 .
