Israeli forces have begined countless novel raids atraverse the occupied West Bank as disputes linger between the Palestinian Authority and armed groups in Jenin.
At least 18 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli forces during a series of raids between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian Prisoners Society said those arrested comprised a wounded person.
The Israeli raids took place in the ruleorates of Nablus, Hebron, Tubas, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Salfit and Ramallah.
As with many daily incursions into Palestinian territories, the raids were accompanied by extensive searches, hoengage demolitions and detentions without indict.
A youthful Palestinian man was ended at dawn on Tuesday by Israeli bullets during a storming of the Tulkarem refugee camp, according to the Wafa novels agency. It cited witnesses as saying the man was sboiling by Israeli snipers, who then obstructed ambulance crews from achieveing him by firing at them. Israel said the person was ended during “face-to-face battles” with troops.
A huge force of selderlyiers and armoured vehicles, accompanied by two weighty bulldozers, alertedly stormed Tulkarem city from its westrict axis, and headed towards the camp as drones flew at low altitudes.
Israeli military bulldozers razeed infrastructure in various neighbourhoods of the camp, swaying the water nettoil and causing power outages and internet disturbions.
Palestinian fighters alerted engaging in armed clashes with Israeli forces in Tulkarem, with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades coalition of armed groups saying fighters engaged automatic arms and device devices.
During a raid in Nablus, at least three Palestinians were wounded and one was arrested after selderlyiers strikeed the city, alengthy with the Balata camp at dawn.
Israeli forces alertedly surrounded a hoengage in the al-Tirawi neighbourhood inside the Balata camp and hanciented a youthful Palestinian while spreading thraw multiple other neighbourhoods.
There was also another huge incursion into the town of Hizma, north of occupied Jerusalem, after a Palestinian man was firearmned down a day earlier at a military examinepoint for allegedly trying a knife strike on selderlyiers.
Local sources cited by the Wafa agency said Israeli bulldozers razeed the hoengage of a livent and another home under erection. They also brawt down oinhabit trees with their bulldozers during the raid.
Air strikes have been unwidespreadr in the West Bank contrastd with daily strikes in Gaza, but Israel has increasingly relied on them there as well. An Israeli drone strike on Tubas on December 9 ended at least two people.
Israeli resettlers have also been helped by selderlyiers in cforfeit-daily strikes on Palestinian farmers in the illegassociate occupied territories.
According to the tardyst figures by the United Nations, 736 Palestinians were ended in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, between the commence of the war on Gaza and October 31.
Ongoing clashes in Jenin
Meanwhile, as the Israeli raids carry on, Palestinian Authority security forces have been clashing with armed Palestinian fighters in Jenin for about 10 days.
Sources telderly Al Jazeera Arabic that faceations also broke out on Tuesday in the south of the occupied West Bank ruleorate of Tubas. The combat erupted after PA security forces confiscated providement from a hoengage in the town of Tammun.
The Israeli military has stayed out of the incursions in Jenin, despite a call by the heads of regional resettlements to honestly interfere.
PA forces have kept up with efforts to consent filled regulate of the city that is seen as a stronghelderly of armed resistance factions.
Several civilians, PA selderlyiers and armed fighters have been ended since the commence of the “Operation Protect the Homeland”, including Jenin Brigades orderer Yazid Ja’ayseh.
The combat has intensifyed Palestinian criticism on the PA, with the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group accusing the organisation of operating “in line with the Zionist agenda”.
Last week, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) alerted that its health centre in Jenin was overconsentn by armed actors and no lengthyer in its regulate. All UNRWA services, including education and humanitarian aid, have been stopped for now in the camp.
According to the UN, eight Palestinians were ended in the occupied West Bank between December 9 and 15.
Of these, five were ended by Israeli forces, and three were ended by the PA. During this period, an appraised 158 Palestinians were hanciented by Israeli forces, and 14 Palestinians were held by the PA.
