The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that a 47-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel from live ammunition during an incursion by occupation forces into the Jabal al-Taweel neighborhood in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank. Soldiers fired shots towards citizens' homes, resulting in her injury while she was inside her home. She was taken to receive treatment.
In the northeast of Ramallah, Wafa reported that armed settlers attacked the area surrounding the entrance to the village of Al-Mughayyir Al-Gharbi, assaulted the young man Amer Fadl Abu Aliya and tried to kidnap him, before the occupation forces stormed the area and assaulted him again and then arrested him.
She added that settlers fired shots at citizens who tried to help the young man, while occupation soldiers fired bullets and tear gas canisters without any injuries being recorded.
In Masafer, south of Hebron, the occupation forces arrested two Palestinians after they were attacked by settlers, while a number of citizens suffered from suffocation in the north of Hebron as a result of the firing of tear gas during the storming of the town of Beit Ummar.
The forces also arrested the child Mohammed Ahmed Fawzi Awad (14 years old) after storming his grandfather’s house and assaulting citizens inside it.
In a related context, the Jerusalem Governorate warned against the restrictions that the occupation authorities intend to impose on the access of worshippers from the West Bank to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, including limiting the number of worshippers to only ten thousand on Fridays, and imposing age conditions, considering this a “blatant violation of the freedom of worship and an attempt to consolidate the plan to Judaize and Israelize Jerusalem.”
The governorate also warned of the escalating incursions by extremist “Temple” groups into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the increasing number of deportation orders, which have reached about 180 since the beginning of this year, calling on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the violations and ensure the protection of holy sites.
In the southern West Bank, the occupation authorities notified residents of the demolition of a football field in Khirbet Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. The field was opened about two years ago with foreign support and is considered a recreational outlet for the children of the area.
Wafa indicated that the notification came after an incitement campaign by settlers and the Regavim settlement organization, as part of settlement expansion plans in the area.
These developments come amid a continuous Israeli escalation in the West Bank since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of at least 1,112 Palestinians, the injury of about 11,500 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000 Palestinians, in a course that Palestinians consider a prelude to the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank.
