The ministry said that “the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed it of the martyrdom of the child Rayan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla (16 years old) by the occupation’s bullets, in Qabatiya, and the detention of his body.”
The ministry also announced the death of the young man Ahmed Saed Ziyoud (22 years old) by occupation bullets in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, where clashes broke out following the storming of the town of Mithlon, south of the city.
Earlier on Tuesday, the young man Youssef Omar Aqel (33 years old) died from injuries sustained when he was shot by the Israeli army last week, while trying to cross the separation wall near the town of Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, according to the ministry.
24 injuries in Qalandiya and Kafr Aqab
In a related context, the number of injuries resulting from the Israeli army’s raid on Qalandiya camp and the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, rose to 24 Palestinians on Tuesday evening, coinciding with the army’s continued destruction of Palestinian property and the arrest of a number of them.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews in the city of Ramallah dealt with 24 injuries during the Israeli army’s raid on Qalandia camp and the town of Kafr Aqab.
She explained that the injuries included three from live ammunition, three from rubber bullets, one from a beating, and 17 cases of tear gas inhalation. She noted that among the injured was a 15-year-old boy from Qalandiya refugee camp who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli army stormed northern Jerusalem, particularly the Qalandiya camp and the town of Kafr Aqab, with military bulldozers and dozens of soldiers who were heavily deployed in the main street and neighborhoods of the camp and the town, according to a statement from the Jerusalem Governorate.
According to the statement, "The raid was accompanied by the intensive firing of sound bombs and tear gas, which caused a state of panic and extreme tension among the citizens."
The governorate also confirmed that the army forced residents of at least four homes to evacuate and converted them into military barracks. It noted that arrests were made during the raid, without
specifying the number of those detained.
The governorate believes that this comes "within the context of the occupation's escalating policies against Jerusalemite citizens, and constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights and international law."
According to the Palestinian News Agency, the army has begun demolition operations on the main road extending from the Qalandiya military checkpoint to the town of Kafr Aqab.
Clashes in several areas
Clashes broke out between Palestinians and the Israeli army on Tuesday, during the latter’s raid on towns in the West Bank, including the town of Kafr al-Labad, east of the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, where the occupation army fired bullets and sound bombs at citizens.
In the northern West Bank, violent clashes also broke out between young people and occupation forces in the city of Tubas.
In the central West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the Israeli army stormed the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, with several military vehicles and fired sound bombs and tear gas in the town center, without any reported injuries.
In the southern West Bank, eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli military bulldozers closed several unpaved side roads leading to the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, which residents had created to bypass main roads closed by the army.
Osama Makhamra, an activist who monitors Israeli violations, said in a brief statement distributed to journalists that settlers attacked a Palestinian home and foreign solidarity activists in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Makhamra added that "settlers attacked the home of Farid al-Hamamda in the Fatih Sidra area, assaulting local residents and foreign activists, though no injuries were reported." He also stated that "the Israeli army, which stormed the area, arrested Khaled Ahmed al-Hamamda."
According to Palestinian state television, the Israeli army also stormed the towns of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, Odla, south of Nablus (north), and Tuqu’, in the Bethlehem district (south).
Since the start of the two-year war of extermination on Gaza, the Israeli escalation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has led to the martyrdom of at least 1,103 Palestinians, the injury of about 11,000, and the arrest of more than 21,000, according to Palestinian data.
The genocide that Israel, with American support, began in Gaza since October 8, 2023, has left about 71,000 martyrs and 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, as well as massive destruction, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
