Widespread Incursions into the Occupation in the West Bank and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warns of an imminent explosion

The Israeli army carried out, at dawn on Wednesday, large-scale incursions into cities, towns and camps in the occupied West Bank in conjunction with the ongoing aggression on Gaza, while the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned that this Israeli escalation is a warning of an "imminent explosion.

The Israeli incursions also hit the towns of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nablus in the northern West Bank, Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp near Jericho, Ramallah and Al-Bireh in the center, and towns in Bethlehem and Hebron governorates in the southern West Bank.

In Nablus, the Israeli army began a military operation in the city, raiding it from several axes and deploying snipers on rooftops.

The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that Israeli special forces stormed the blacksmiths' market inside the Old City, surrounded a house, and arrested Palestinian Nasr Mabrouk from inside the town.

WAFA noted that the occupation forces raided several houses and offices and destroyed their contents, among them the Martyr's Café, Wadih Al-Houh, and the Fatah organization office in the western area of the old town in Al-Nasr street. Explosions and intermittent clashes were also heard in several places in the city.

The number of Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank was 707, of which 140 were erected after the Al Aqsa Flood (French)

The army carried out an eight-hour military operation in the town and Jenin refugee camp at dawn on Wednesday amid clashes and explosions.

Military bulldozers began to bulldoze several streets in the Jenin camp, destroying property, while the army carried out raids on Palestinian houses, searched them, vandalized their contents and investigated dozens of citizens on the ground. The city of Tulkarem​​​​The city of Tulkarem also witnessed similar incursions​ ​ occupation forces arrested a Palestinian after storming the house of his family in the northern West Bank.

In Bethlehem, occupation forces arrested five Palestinians from different areas in the southern West Bank.

WAFA said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Obaida, east of Bethlehem, raided houses and tampered with their contents, arrested a Palestinian, and seized his vehicle.

In Ramallah, the occupying forces arrested four Palestinians during raids and raids on the homes of several citizens, tampering with their contents, vandalizing them, seizing some of their property and seizing some vehicles.

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For its part, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued Tuesday night that Israel is "cutting off" the occupied West Bank, gradually incorporating it with the "occupation force," and "paralyzing" the movement of the Palestinians by the deployment of iron barriers and gates, and enshrining "the most heinous forms of apartheid regime."

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry added that the occupation authorities are imposing more collective punishments on the citizens of the West Bank, paralyzing their movement and life by dismembering them and turning them into isolated cantons.

It also spoke of more "death barriers, iron gates, military towers and closures," adding to the suffering of Palestinians, forcing them to stay for long hours at checkpoints, including entire families with their women and children, the elderly and the sick, according to a Palestinian ministry statement.

Palestinians are also subjected to "inhuman humiliating practices" at military checkpoints, "in the deliberate consecration by Israel of the most heinous forms of apartheid and the gradual colonial annexation of the West Bank by the force of occupation," according to the statement.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called for a total Israeli incursion into the West Bank and its reoccupation of the territories.

It held the Israeli government "fully and directly responsible for the consequences of this dangerous escalation (in the West Bank)," warning of "Israel's deliberate push of the situation in the West Bank towards an imminent explosion."

It also warned of "the consequences of violations and crimes committed by the occupation forces and settler militias against Palestinian citizens in the West Bank," according to the statement.

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"In 2023, 25 Palestinian Bedouin gatherings of 1,517 people were displaced, according to the government's Committee for the Resistance to Wall and Settlement."

"There are 707 Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank, including 140 that were put in place after the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, according to data from the non-governmental Applied Research Institute (ARIJ)."

Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank hit a record high in 2023.

Since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza last October, the occupation intensified its military operations in the West Bank, and increased the frequency of raids and raids on cities, towns and camps, which resulted in the martyrdom of 341 Palestinians, the injury of about 3950, and the arrest of 5755, according to official sources.

Source: Al-Jazeera + agencies