In Hebron, a general strike was observed following the killing of 17-year-old Ahmed al-Rajabi and 55-year-old municipal employee Ziad Abu Daoud by Israeli forces in the Bab al-Zawiya area on Saturday evening. The families of the two men and local sources confirmed that one of them was performing his duties in the area and had no connection to the incident.
In various parts of the West Bank, the Israeli army carried out raids and arrests targeting eight Palestinians in Jenin, Qalqilya, and Ramallah. In Salfit, Israeli forces arrested residents of Kafr ad-Dik and intensified their military measures by closing entrances to towns and setting up checkpoints in Deir Ballut, Haris, and Kafr Haris, causing traffic jams and delays for residents.
Meanwhile, areas east of Ramallah witnessed a wave of violent attacks by settlers, as an elderly Palestinian woman, her grandson, and two foreign solidarity activists sustained varying injuries after being beaten with sticks and stones in the village of Al-Mughayyir.
Settlers also set up mobile homes between the towns of Burqa and Deir Dibwan to expand the “Ramat Migron” settlement, in the context of escalating settlement activity, which recorded 2,144 attacks by the army and settlers during last November.
In a related context, Channel 12 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of 14 settlement outposts classified as hotbeds of Jewish violence and terrorism, ahead of the visit of US Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz, amid security preparations to arrest about 70 settlers who incite violence.
The West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in attacks by the occupation army and settlers against Palestinians, their property and livelihoods, during the two years of genocide that Tel Aviv began in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli escalation in the West Bank has led to the martyrdom of at least 1,090 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 11,000, and the arrest of more than 21,000, according to official data.
