The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its crews transported a 30-year-old man to the hospital for treatment after he was injured when he was run over by an Israeli military jeep during a raid east of Nablus.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces forced a Palestinian family from Amman Street, east of Nablus, to evacuate their home and leave it in the open during the early morning hours, amid cold weather, and also forced another family to evacuate their home in the same area.
The sources added that dozens of Israeli military vehicles stormed the eastern part of the city and the vicinity of "Joseph's Tomb," carrying settlers who stormed the tomb and performed religious rituals inside it, under the protection of the occupation army, which deployed its snipers on the roofs of a number of houses in the streets of Jerusalem and the suburb area east of the city.
Joseph's Tomb is located on the eastern edge of Nablus, which is under Palestinian control, and has been considered a holy site by Jews since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967.
The settlers claim that the remains of the Prophet Joseph, son of Jacob, were brought from Egypt and buried in the place, but archaeologists have denied this, explaining that the age of the shrine does not exceed a few centuries, and that it is a shrine for a Muslim sheikh named "Youssef Dweikat".
In a related context, Israeli occupation forces arrested six Palestinians on Thursday during a raid on the towns of Sa’ir and Ash-Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Wafa reported that the occupation forces raided the home of the family of the martyr Qusay Halaika, and arrested two of his brothers, Bilal and Ismail Halaika, in addition to arresting Abdul Jawad Ahmed Halaika, Youssef Ibrahim Halaika, Ali Issa Al-Haroub, and Tamer Khaled Ayaydeh, after raiding their homes, searching them, and tampering with their contents.
In Hebron, the occupation forces seized a five-story residential building belonging to the Rajabi family in the Jabal Jawhar area, south of the city, and turned it into a military barracks after forcing its residents to evacuate.
Israeli forces also raided a number of citizens’ homes, as well as a printing press and shops in the Bir Haram al-Rama area and at the northern entrance to Hebron, searching them and vandalizing their contents, without reporting any additional arrests.
These developments come amid escalating attacks by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, which included killing, arrest, house demolitions, displacement and settlement expansion.
According to official Palestinian data, these attacks resulted in the martyrdom of at least 1,110 Palestinians, the injury of more than 11,500 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000 Palestinians.
