In a series of raids across the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed several Palestinian towns and cities, resulting in violent clashes and arrests, according to local reports.
The raids began on Friday morning, with Israeli occupation troops entering the northern West Bank city of Nablus from the Beit Furik checkpoint. They also targeted the nearby town of Burqa. During the Nablus raid, the Israeli occupation forces stormed a residential building in the Iraq al-Tayeh neighborhood.
This prompted fierce clashes between the Israeli occupation troops and Palestinian resistance fighters from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The brigades engaged the Israeli forces near the Rawda College in Nablus, targeting them with machine guns and explosives.
Elsewhere, IOF raided the towns of Amatin and Kafr Laqif, east of Qalqilya, carrying out a large-scale arrest operation that netted around 50 Palestinians, according to local media.
Israeli occupation forces have carried out mass arrests during a military raid into Kafr Laqif town, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/ZuECebjnie
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 19, 2024
After several hours, the IOF withdrew from Kafr Laqif, releasing all the detainees.
Last night, Israeli soldiers deliberately fired gas canisters at Palestinian vehicles in the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, causing them to catch fire. pic.twitter.com/iuaNYKjzHw
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 20, 2024
The southern West Bank also saw Israeli incursions, with raids in the Hebron area, including the towns of Idhna, Kharas, and the Bir Haram al-Ram area. In Idhna, the troops arrested Muhammad Adnan al-Jaouni after raiding his home and damaging its contents.
North of Ramallah, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Jifna, Turmus Ayya, and Birzeit, arresting one young man and confiscating his vehicle in Birzeit. They also raided the Kafr Aqab neighborhood north of occupied Jerusalem, firing tear gas at Palestinian vehicles and causing them to catch fire.
During the raid on Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, the occupation forces shot and wounded a young man, Yasser Raed Fayez, in the stomach.
It is noteworthy that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced the martyrdom of Shadi Zakarneh, one of its leaders in Qabatiya. Zakarneh was marryred after being besieged inside the house where he was holed up in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, on Thursday evening.
Israeli soldiers threw the bodies of Palestinians they had killed from the roof of a besieged house in the town of Qabatiya, Jenin, in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/hOuataQ3mA
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) September 19, 2024
With Zakarneh, resistance fighters from the Qabatiya Battalion in the Al-Quds Brigades were martyred: Ahmed Zakarneh, Muhammad Abu al-Rab, Fadi Hanaysheh, Omar Abu al-Rab, and Muhammad Abu Khamira.
Palestinians have tried to extinguish the fires that broke out in the house the Israeli occupation forces had besieged in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin. pic.twitter.com/LoZB0beSJ9
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 19, 2024
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also announced the martyrdom of Mustafa Zakarneh, and one of its fighters in Qabatiya, who was killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted his vehicle in the town, also on Thursday evening.
Source: Agencies and Palestinian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
