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    West Bank: Large-Scale Campaign of Raids and Arrests in Jerusalem

      The Israeli occupation army launched a large-scale raid and arrest campaign across various areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The operations included storming and searching Palestinian homes, ransacking their contents, interrogating residents, and detaining several people for hours.

      In the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, occupation forces demolished the family home of prisoner Ahmed Abu al-Rub, whom they accuse of carrying out the Afula and Beit She’an attacks. The occupation forces, using multiple military vehicles, imposed a tight siege on the home, forcing its residents to evacuate temporarily before proceeding with the demolition.

      Raids also targeted the al-Tira neighborhood in Ramallah, the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, and the towns of Zawata and Awarta, west and southeast of Nablus.

      In a related incident from Tuesday evening, Israeli occupation forces raided the city of Jericho in the southern West Bank. Local sources reported that forces stormed a shop near the cable car roundabout.

      Additional raids were carried out in the town of Jayyous north of Qalqilya, the city of Tubas, the Al-Salam neighborhood in Anata, and the Shuafat refugee camp northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

      At dawn, the occupation forces arrested eight young men during the raid on the Shuafat camp and the adjacent neighborhood of Ras Khamis. Another young man was arrested Wednesday night during a raid on Tulkarm in the northern West Bank.

      Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested Abd al-Fattah Badir, the son of the martyr Riyad Badir, after raiding his home in Tulkarm. The forces also severely beat Palestinian officials, including Abu Ali al-Kalouni, deputy secretary of the Fatah movement, and another resident of the Ain al-Sultan refugee camp, while arresting a number of young men.

      Among those detained were Hamza Tayseer al-Rajoub, who suffers from cancer, and Abd al-Fattah Badir, the son of the martyr Riyad Badir.

      These raids were accompanied by a widespread deployment of occupation forces and the continuous dispatch of military reinforcements to numerous cities and villages in the West Bank, as part of what is described as an ongoing field escalation.

      Source: Palestinian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar)