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The Israeli army arrested 14 Palestinians, including a child, during raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, amid settler attacks that included burning property and destroying agricultural land.
Settlers burned a residential room belonging to a Palestinian in the northern part of Osarin, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, local sources told Turkish news agency Anadolu.
They also set fire to a vehicle, partially burning it, and spray-painted racist slogans at the site, the sources added.
In Bethlehem, Israeli settlers attacked the Khala'il al-Louz area east of the city, damaging irrigation pipes used for crops, cutting down trees and damaging Palestinian property and agricultural land.
Settlers also uprooted olive and grape trees from Palestinian-owned land in the village of al-Minya, east of Bethlehem, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In Nablus, Israeli forces raided the towns of Beita, Tell and Beit Dajan, storming and searching several homes, Wafa reported.
In Tulkarem, Israeli army and police vehicles raided the city, concentrating their presence in the city center and market area, eyewitnesses said.
Witnesses said Israeli forces harassed Palestinians and police issued traffic tickets to Palestinian vehicles.
They added that the army raised the Israeli flag on the minaret of a mosque in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem.
Two Palestinians, including a child, from the village of al-Rashaydeh in Bethlehem, were detained during an Israeli incursion.
In Qalqilya, the army arrested six Palestinians after raiding the city and searching homes in the Kafr Saba and al-Naqqar neighborhoods, according to Wafa.
The army also rounded up five Palestinians from Tulkarem and another from Beita during its incursions.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces closed the western entrance to al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the city, preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving.
They also subjected some Palestinians to field interrogations and fired tear gas toward vehicles.
Local sources told Anadolu that the western entrance is currently the village’s only access point after the Israeli army closed its eastern entrance on Oct. 7, 2023.
The sources said Israeli settlers burned a tent, equipment and animal feed belonging to a Palestinian farmer on the outskirts of Burqa village, east of Ramallah.
The West Bank has seen a surge in settler attacks and Israeli military raids since the outbreak of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, amid Palestinian and international warnings over the consequences of continued escalation.
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