The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced in two successive statements that "two young men, one aged 17 and the other 20, were transferred to the hospital with live gunshot wounds during the Israeli army's raid on the town of Qabatiya."
According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli occupation army stormed the town and spread out in its streets, firing live ammunition and gas bombs at its residents, while the villagers tried to repel the aggression in vain.
On Thursday morning, Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank and the town of Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron , while an Israeli armored vehicle collided with a Palestinian vehicle near Al-Quds Open University in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank.
A Palestinian was also wounded by settler gunfire in the Al-Tal area on the outskirts of Sinjil town, north of Ramallah governorate.
In a related context, Israel was questioned at the United Nations on Tuesday and Wednesday regarding several reports of torture of Palestinian detainees, particularly since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
This came during the periodic review of Israel’s record before the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
Committee rapporteur Peter Fidel Kissing said: "The Committee was deeply disturbed by the description in a large number of reports from different sources of what appears to be systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment of Palestinians, including children and vulnerable groups."
He added: "It has been reported that torture has become a deliberate and widespread tool in state policy, used in all legal, administrative and operational systems, from arrest to interrogation to imprisonment."
He added that the sources of these reports were various UN bodies, Israeli, Palestinian, and international NGOs, and other sources. Kissing continued, "Many of the detainees who were later released were subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment." He cited examples including "severe beatings, including on the genitals; electric shocks; being forced to remain in stress positions for extended periods; deliberate inhumane conditions and starvation; waterboarding; widespread sexual humiliation; and threats of rape."
In July 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report stating that Palestinians arrested by Israel during the Gaza war were mostly held incommunicado and in some cases subjected to treatment that could amount to torture.
Since the start of the war of extermination on Gaza, attacks by the army and settlers have led to the martyrdom of at least 1,070 Palestinians, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,500 others.
The Israeli genocide, which began in Tel Aviv on October 8, 2023, and lasted for two years, left more than 69,000 martyrs and 170,000 wounded, most of them women and children.
A ceasefire agreement has been in place between Hamas and Israel since October 10, but the latter violates it daily, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian martyrs and wounded, as well as restricting the entry of food and medical supplies.