Saturday, August 24, 2024 – The West Bank
Raids and arrests
During the night, Israeli forces raided Baqat Al Khatab, Kafr Jamal, Qarawat Bani Hassan, Deir Abu Mash’al, Biddya, Silwad, Nablus. During the day they raided Al Funduq, Tell, Fandaqumiya, Qalqilya, Atil, Beit Furik, Abwein, Baqat Al Khatab (twice during the day), Sa’ir, Rujeib, Deir Ballut, Husan, Masafer Yatta (Khirbet Jinba), Zawiya, Shuqba, Sinjil, Qusra. 10 Palestinians were arrested, a woman among them.
Clashes and army attacks against Palestinians
1. Nablus - night raid and confrontations. Parts of a house exploded.
2. Tell, south-west of Nablus - Raid, teargas fired.
3. Abwein, north-west of Ramallah - raid and confrontations.
4. Beit Furik, east of Nablus - raid, vehicles damaged, confrontations. 2 persons wounded by live fire, a minor among them.
5. Sa’ir, north-east of Hebron - raid and confrontations.
6. Deir Ballut, west of Salfit - raid with live fire.
7. Husan, west of Bethlehem - confrontations, suffocations due to teargas.
8. Dotan Checkpoint, south-west of Jenin - fire exchange.
9. East Jerusalem, Flowers Gate - Israeli forces attack a young woman, a man who tries to protect her is also attacked and arrested.
Palestinian attacks against the army
1. Avnei Hefetz colony, south-east of Tulkarm - explosive charge thrown at military vehicle.
Demolitions and confiscations
1. Al Funduq, east of Qalqilya - construction works ceased and concrete mixer confiscated.
Attacks against colonists
1. Qalqilya - 2 colonists enter the city with their car and are attacked. One of them fires and wounds a Palestinian. The forces raid the city to rescue them. Confrontations, searches for the colonists take hours. Finally they are rescued.
Colonist attacks
1. Sarra, west of Nablus - colonists burn olive trees and land.
2. Susya, Masafer Yatta - colonists attack Palestinians with stones, sticks and fists. Several persons wounded, including 2 women, one from stones thrown and the other from blows all over her body.
3. Rujeib, south-east of Nablus - dozens of colonists raid the town. The inhabitants confront them. The army arrives and raids the town after the colonists leave.
4. Al Maniya, south-east of Bethlehem - colonists raise a tent/outpost on village land.
Sources
Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War
