Israeli forces and settlers have escalated pogroms and raids across the occupied West Bank, attacking and injuring Palestinians, restricting their movement, carrying out arrests and demolishing homes.
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This comes as a military offensive and siege on the Hebron governorate entered its seventh day – an operation that has displaced or besieged hundreds of Palestinian families and kept tens of thousands of students out of classrooms.
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In the Qalandiya refugee camp just north of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces carried out a raid that triggered clashes on Thursday.
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Two children were wounded, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.
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It said its teams treated a 15-year-old boy who was shot with live ammunition in both legs, and a child, aged 12, who was injured by live-bullet fragments.
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Both were taken to hospital.
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In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers and settlers beat disabled Palestinian Mohammad Ahmad Ayesh Thawabta in the village of al-Maniya, southeast of Bethlehem, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
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In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces detained 13 Palestinians, including three brothers, in raids before dawn on Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners Media Office and local sources said.
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Most of the raids were in the Nablus governorate, where soldiers searched homes and harassed families.
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In Hebron, Israeli forces continued raids and closures that began last week after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a gun attack.
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Both Palestinian suspects were also killed.
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Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said on Thursday that 537 families, comprising 3,361 people, have been forced from their homes, Wafa reported.
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They include 232 infants, 326 older people, 147 pregnant or breastfeeding women and 213 people with chronic illnesses.
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Municipal figures put the total number affected, including those under siege, at about 5,000 people from 780 families.
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Dudin said the offensive has disrupted education for about 262,000 students across 589 schools in the governorate this week, forcing schools to move to remote learning.
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Officials estimated daily economic losses at 10 million to 12 million shekels ($3.2m to $3.9m).
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The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Israeli forces detained 110 Palestinians in the governorate from Friday to Wednesday.
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Soldiers beat two men in Dura and Wad al-Saman and arrested two brothers while they were ploughing their land east of Yatta, it said.
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Israeli forces also raided homes in Taffuh and Halhul, and settlers attacked vehicles at the city’s closed northern entrance, it added.
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Memorials demolished
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In nearby Masafer Yatta, armed settlers attacked US journalist Jasper Nathaniel and two activists in the village of Umm al-Khair on Wednesday.
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Russian activist Adele Shoko said on X that the settlers beat and threatened them and stole their equipment and Nathaniel was pepper-sprayed and arrested.
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Israeli forces are still operating in Hebron, blocking access and imposing tight restrictions on movement across the governorate.
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They are “disrupting Palestinians’ access to livelihoods, education and healthcare.
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Most displaced families are staying with relatives,” OCHA said, calling for the prevention of further forced displacements and demolitions.
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Israeli forces also demolished memorials to Palestinians in several parts of the Hebron governorate on Thursday.
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In Dura, south of Hebron city, soldiers fired a heavy barrage of tear gas before bulldozing a mural bearing the images of several of the town’s dead, including Bajis Abu Atwan, who was killed in the 1970s.
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The targeting of memorials “appears to be a new pattern recently adopted by Israeli forces across all West Bank governorates – though at a higher rate here in Hebron”, Al Jazeera’s Muntasir Nassar said, reporting from Dura.
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Israeli military and settler attacks across the West Bank have intensified since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
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