At least four Palestinians were injured and more than a dozen others detained during a new wave of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank from Saturday evening into Sunday.
Early on Sunday morning, Israeli forces opened fire on two men near the separation wall in Beit Marsam, west of Hebron in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA , both men were hospitalised and are receiving treatment.
In Nablus, Israeli soldiers deployed in the Old City, raiding several homes and sealing roads during an hours-long operation that was still ongoing as of Sunday afternoon. Videos shared by residents showed Israeli troops in residential areas including by the city’s main market.
A 14-year-old boy was shot and injured in the thigh, while his father sustained shrapnel wounds to the foot. A young man and his mother were also arrested.
Israeli forces also conducted overnight raids across several other parts of the West Bank.
Six Palestinians were arrested in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, while four children were detained in a separate raid on al-Arroub camp, north of Hebron.
Later on Sunday, soldiers arrested a resident of Attil, a village north of Tulkarm , and a 19-year-old man in Tammun, south of Tubas.
Near Jerusalem, Israeli troops raided the town of al-Sawahra on Sunday morning, searching multiple homes and arresting at least two Palestinians.
In Al-Ram, north of the city, three residents were treated for smoke inhalation after soldiers fired tear gas during a Saturday night raid that led to six more arrests.
In East Jerusalem’s al-Shiyah area of Silwan, resident Mahmoud al-Tawil was forced on Sunday morning to demolish his own home, built ten years ago, after being denied an Israeli building permit — a document that human rights groups say is nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain.
The house, which had already cost al-Tawil a 120,000-shekel (£29,380) fine, had housed him, his wife, and their four children.
Elsewhere, residents reported a settler attack on Palestinian farmers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus. Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa Also on Sunday morning, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under heavy police protection, accompanied by a group of Israelis. Ben-Gvir and members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition have frequently stormed the site, including as recently as Tuesday.
The incursion — condemned by Palestinian officials and Jordan — came just a day after Israel reopened the compound following a 40-day closure imposed during its war with Iran .
The Palestinian presidency denounced the move as "a flagrant violation of the existing historical and legal status, a desecration of its sanctity, and a dangerous escalation and unacceptable provocation".
The Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem Affairs Department said the raid extended Israel’s systematic use of force to restrict Palestinian access to Muslim and Christian holy sites, describing a "dual policy based on reducing the Palestinian presence while expanding the settlement presence within the holy city".
Israeli forces also arrested the head of Al-Aqsa’s cleaning department and later detained two women from within the compound’s courtyards, according to WAFA and the Jerusalem Governorate, which said those arrested were taken to unknown locations.