The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said: "Today (Monday), three Palestinians were wounded by gunfire from Jewish shepherds from a farm in the Anatot area," near the Palestinian town of Anata, north of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank.
She continued: "Two of the injured are in serious condition and were transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, while a third sustained moderate injuries and was evacuated by the Red Crescent."
The authority indicated that settlers had attacked the village of “Mikhmas” earlier on Monday, throwing stones at Palestinians and left-wing activists, which resulted in damage to one of the vehicles.
In the context of attacks by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the Israeli occupation army arrested local council member Osama Muhammad Al-Deek (48 years old), after raiding his home west of Ramallah (central West Bank).
In the southern West Bank, the agency reported that the Israeli occupation army distributed notices to demolish six houses under construction in the town of Tarqumiya, west of Hebron. It noted that the notices targeted houses, some of which consisted of several floors, despite their owners possessing official documents proving their ownership of the land and buildings.
bulldozing and demolition
In the same context, the Israeli authorities notified of the demolition of a wedding hall and a park, and the cessation of construction of four houses in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern occupied West Bank, and also began bulldozing agricultural lands in the city of Jenin in the north.
Israeli authorities have also begun demolishing a building containing 13 residential apartments in the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of "unlicensed construction".
Eyewitnesses said that police forces accompanied Israeli municipal crews in Jerusalem who demolished a building containing 13 apartments, in which about 100 Palestinians lived, in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood.
Witnesses indicated that Israeli police forces surrounded the area, while municipal bulldozers began demolishing the building. They confirmed that members of the Israeli police assaulted Palestinians who were gathered at the site, with the aim of removing them.
war crime
For its part, Hamas considered Israel's demolition of the building "one of the largest demolition and mass displacement operations targeting the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem."
This came in a press statement by the movement's leader, Abdul Rahman Shadid, who considered this demolition operation "a war crime and a crime against humanity in its entirety."
He warned of major Israeli schemes being hatched against Jerusalem, which come within a systematic occupation policy to empty the city of its inhabitants and impose new demographic realities by force, through the demolition of homes, tightening the siege and cutting off the connections of Jerusalem neighborhoods.
The demolitions come as part of an ongoing Israeli policy targeting Palestinian structures, amid significant difficulties faced by Palestinians in obtaining building permits in the occupied West Bank.
In conjunction with the Israeli war of extermination launched by Israel in Gaza starting on October 8, 2023 and lasting for two years, the Israeli occupation army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 1,102 Palestinians, the injury of about 11,000, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000.
While the Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip left approximately 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to massive destruction, UN estimates indicate that the cost of reconstruction could reach approximately $70 billion.
