Settlers storm Al-Aqsa and a child injured in clashes in the West Bank

A group of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning, Monday, from the direction of Bab al-Maghariba, and carried out provocative tours in its courtyard, while a Palestinian child was injured in clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Jalazone camp in the center of the occupied West Bank.

The settlers also performed Talmudic prayers in the Al-Aqsa courtyard under the protection of the occupation police.

Jewish groups known as "Temple Mount" groups had called for intensifying the incursions during the Jewish Festival of Lights "Hanukkah".

Occupation forces arrested 22 Palestinians at dawn today, Monday, following raids and incursions they carried out in various areas of the West Bank.

A child was injured by bullets from occupation forces during the clashes in Jalazone camp north of Ramallah.

Clashes erupted in the town of Jareer and the village of Aaboud north-east and west of Ramallah city amid gunfire and sound and gas bombs.

It indicated that there is a campaign of harassment and detention of children and youth in the village of Aaboud, without reports of arrests or raids.

For its part, the Palestinian News Agency reported that the Israeli army raided the Jabal al-Taweel neighborhood in the city of Al-Bireh in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate.

The agency indicated that the army fired bullets and toxic gas bombs, without reports of injuries or arrests.

It continued that the raid also targeted the town of Turmus Ayya and the village of Kafr Malik north-east of Ramallah city.

In Hebron, occupation forces arrested 3 Palestinians after searching their homes, tampering with their contents, and assaulting them with severe beatings.

Occupation forces raided the city of Hebron and the towns of Beit Awa and Halhoul, raided several homes, detained their owners, assaulted them with severe beatings, searched their homes, and wreaked havoc on their contents.

They also set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron and its towns, villages, and camps, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earthen barriers.

In Jenin, occupation forces left destruction and devastation after raiding a house and arresting a number of young men during the raid on the town of Jaba to the south.

Likewise, occupation forces carried out a campaign of raiding citizens' homes in the town of Awarta south of Nablus, arrested some of them, and settlers' buses accompanied by occupation vehicles raided the town of Awarta south of Nablus.

On another front, Youssef Fanadqa, deputy head of the Popular Committee in Nour Shams camp, said that about 1907 displaced families are currently living in rented apartments distributed across various areas of Tulkarm governorate, lacking the minimum necessities of life, amid heavy financial burdens due to high rental costs.

He added that no less than a thousand residential apartments were completely demolished by the occupation in Nour Shams camp, in addition to hundreds of homes that suffered partial damage, as part of a systematic destruction policy targeting the camp and its residents.

Since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army has intensified its military operations in the West Bank, and the army and settlers' assaults in the West Bank have led to the martyrdom of no less than 1094 Palestinians and the injury of about 11,000 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000, according to official Palestinian figures.