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Sun 30 Nov 2025 9:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers storm Al-Aqsa while occupation forces continue to demolish homes in the West Bank.

A group of settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque today, Sunday, alongside the continuation of their assaults in various areas of the West Bank and the ongoing incursions by Israeli occupation forces into cities and towns, demolishing homes.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that settlers conducted provocative tours in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, performing Talmudic rituals in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque under the protection of occupation police.

The Palestinian News Agency stated that the Israeli occupation authorities issued a decision today to expel a Jerusalemite citizen named Nawaf Al-Salaimeh from Al-Aqsa Mosque for six months, after having previously expelled him for a week.

It noted that this decision comes as part of a systematic policy aimed at expelling Palestinian citizens from Jerusalem from Al-Aqsa Mosque to empty it of worshippers and Jerusalemites.

It reported that the Jerusalem Governorate recorded 17 expulsion orders during October, including 16 orders related to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In Jenin, northern West Bank, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that occupation forces resumed the demolition of 24 homes and buildings and the leveling of streets within Jenin camp.

The occupation forces used bulldozers and heavy equipment to carry out the demolition operations that began last Friday in several locations within the camp.

For its part, the popular committee of the camp confirmed that more than 1,600 homes have been demolished, destroyed, or burned, while the occupation has displaced more than 20,000 Palestinians from the camp and its surroundings.

In the same context, the Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli occupation forces obstructed the movement of Palestinian citizens in the city of Qalqilya in the West Bank this evening, Sunday.

The Palestinian agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the eastern entrance of Qalqilya and stopped citizens' vehicles, checking the identities of their passengers, which caused a severe traffic jam.

Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Sebastia northwest of Nablus in the West Bank.

The correspondent confirmed that clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the town of Aqraba south of Nablus during the incursion of occupation forces into the Palestinian town.

He also reported that occupation forces stormed the town of Sebastia northwest of Nablus, and clashes erupted following the incursion into the town of Aqraba south of the city.

Occupation forces had arrested a Palestinian youth from within the old city of Nablus and deployed military reinforcements during the incursion into the city, firing tear gas canisters and smoke bombs before withdrawing.

In Salfit Governorate, occupation forces carried out a campaign of raids and arrests, and Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the occupation forces detained dozens of young men and interrogated them on-site after raiding their homes, searching them, and tampering with their contents.

In other developments, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that four foreign activists were injured after being assaulted by a group of settlers in the village of Ein Duyuk north of Jericho.

Local sources reported that the settlers stormed a house in the village where foreign activists were present as part of a solidarity campaign and assaulted them, resulting in injuries to three Italians and a Canadian, all of whom were transported to the hospital.

In a related context, new video footage from surveillance cameras showed the moment armed Israeli settlers stormed the Khalayel Al-Lawz area south of Bethlehem in the West Bank yesterday, Saturday.

The footage showed the settlers assaulting a Palestinian family, besieging them inside their home, throwing stones at the house, breaking its windows, and attacking its residents.

Medical sources had reported to Al Jazeera that 10 Palestinians were injured in an assault carried out by settlers yesterday in this area, including one injury from live ammunition, in addition to three injuries resulting from severe beating.

According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 766 assaults against Palestinians and their properties in the West Bank during October.

The Israeli army and settlers continue their assaults and escalation in the West Bank since the beginning of the genocide war on Gaza, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 1,085 Palestinians, nearly 11,000 injuries, and the arrest of more than 21,000 others.

The Israeli genocide war in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 8, 2023, and lasted for two years, has resulted in more than 70,000 martyrs and about

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