The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that the boy was shot in the chest with live ammunition and later died of his wounds, while another person with a gunshot wound to the back was taken to the hospital. This followed a raid by a large force of Israeli occupation soldiers on the Askar refugee camp and several neighborhoods in Nablus, where clashes broke out, though no arrests were reported.
In Hebron, the occupation forces imposed a tight siege on the neighborhoods surrounding the Old City in preparation for the settlers’ celebrations of what is called “Sarah’s Sabbath”, which paralyzed the movement of about 4,000 Palestinians, while the settlers set up tents in the streets of the town and in the courtyard of the Ibrahimi Mosque.
On Sunday morning, the governorate also witnessed the arrest of eight citizens, including four from one family in the town of Beit Ummar, one of whom was a released prisoner who had been freed only three days earlier, in addition to the arrest of other citizens in Dura.
Settlers also stormed the entrance to the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, and vandalized three Palestinian vehicles in an attack captured on security cameras. In a separate incident, settlers cut down olive trees and spray-painted racist slogans on homes in the Khallat al-Natsh area, east of Hebron.
In Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested a young man from the town of Kafr Qaffin, and another young man from the town of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem, after raiding it and deploying foot soldiers inside. In Jericho, Israeli forces arrested a released prisoner from his home in the Katf al-Wad neighborhood.
In the town of al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli army fire near the Israeli separation barrier erected in the town. The Palestinian Red Crescent stated in a press release that its crews in Ramallah "treated a 26-year-old man who was shot with live ammunition near the al-Ram wall."
Politically, hardline ministers in the Israeli government continued to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject any political path leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that Netanyahu must declare unequivocally that "a Palestinian state will never be established." For his part, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reiterated that his party would not participate in any government that agrees to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Israeli war of extermination in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, and stopped two years later under a ceasefire agreement, after leaving more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
In parallel with the genocide in Gaza, the attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers together led to the martyrdom of at least 1,072 Palestinians, the injury of about 10,700, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,500 others, over the course of two years.