A young Palestinian man sustained head injuries on Sunday evening after Israeli occupation forces fired rubber bullets during their raid on the city of Al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank. Medical sources confirmed that Red Crescent teams dealt with the injury in the Sateh Marhaba area and transferred him to the hospital for necessary treatment, while local sources described the confrontations as violent.
Al-Amari refugee camp and the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in Al-Bireh witnessed a widespread incursion by Israeli forces, who fired a barrage of live ammunition and tear gas canisters at citizens and their homes. Concurrently, occupation vehicles spread through the town of Tuqu' southeast of Bethlehem, where they carried out search operations and provoked residents amidst the firing of stun grenades and gas, leading to cases of suffocation that were treated on site.
As part of the policy of urban restriction, an Israeli court issued a decision to demolish a two-story Palestinian home in the town of Al-Khader west of Bethlehem, under the pretext of building without a permit. The occupation authorities informed the homeowners of the need to evacuate immediately in preparation for the demolition, which comes a week after the demolition of an inhabited residential building in the city of Hebron.
In the northern Jordan Valley, occupation forces arrested six citizens from Bardala village after they were subjected to a brutal assault by a group of settlers. Human rights sources reported that the arrests came after the citizens tried to defend themselves and their sheep pens from the settlers' attack, a scene that is repeated daily to displace residents from pastoral areas.
In Nablus Governorate, occupation forces continued their repressive practices by forcing shop owners in the town of Huwara to close their doors at gunpoint. The occupation authorities did not provide any legal justifications for this measure, which aims to paralyze economic activity in the town, which has been suffering from a strict siege and continuous attacks for many months.
For its part, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed in a recent report a dangerous escalation in the pace of settler terrorism, with 468 attacks recorded in January alone. These violations varied between direct physical violence, uprooting fruit trees, burning agricultural crops, and preventing farmers from accessing their lands in various governorates of the West Bank.
These developments come amidst the ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, where the death toll in the West Bank since October 7 has risen to more than 1,117 martyrs. Official data also indicates that approximately 11,500 Palestinians have been injured, while the number of detainees in occupation prisons has exceeded 22,000, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Our teams transferred a young man who was shot with a rubber bullet in the head during the raid on the Sateh Marhaba area in Al-Bireh to the hospital.
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Young man injured, widespread arrests, and home demolitions in new Israeli escalation in the West Bank