The Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian youth under the pretext of trying to carry out an armed operation in the city of Petah Tikva, northeast of Tel Aviv, in light of the military and security reinforcements of the occupation in the West Bank, inside the Green Line and on the border with the Gaza Strip.

And the Israeli police said - in a statement - that they arrested the young man near the Green Line on the border with the West Bank.

In occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that its teams treated 11 Palestinian citizens who were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces' oppression of civilians in the Bab Al-Amoud area.

The occupation forces also arrested 9 Palestinians after skirmishes after the end of Tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Israeli police said that two of its forces were injured after some youths threw empty bottles at them.

On the other hand, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the (Islamic resistance) movement Hamas does not want to escalate, but if it works to detonate the situation, Israel is ready to respond with force.

Gantz stressed - in an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper website - that the Israeli forces are deployed along the border and are ready for any possible escalation.

He added that Israel is interested in providing wide civil facilities to the Palestinians during the month of Ramadan, but taking security standards into consideration first, noting that crucial days are still awaiting the security services during the month of Ramadan.

Gantz said that it is possible that other operations will occur during this sensitive period, but he called on the Israelis to maintain their normal routine, describing this as a message of strength to others.


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For his part, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi instructed his forces to prepare for the possibility of a new military operation if necessary.

And Israeli Channel 13 reported that Kohavi made this statement while he was in the Nahal military unit, where he explained that the state of high alert may extend for a month or more.

The channel interpreted Kochavi's statement as hinting at the possibility of carrying out a military operation similar to the one he launched on Gaza last May.

The Israeli authorities had reinforced their forces in the West Bank and within the cities of the Green Line, as it announced the deployment of additional forces along the separation wall and seam areas, and also pushed 15 military battalions to the West Bank and the border with the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, visited the occupation forces deployed in the Bab al-Amud area in occupied Jerusalem, and praised the work of the police and army forces present there, and called on them to protect themselves and Israel, noting that the circumstance is extremely difficult, as he put it.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Lapid's tour in the Bab al-Amoud area, and considered his statement to deploy more reinforcements in occupied Jerusalem as a dangerous escalation.

For its part, Hamas said that Lapid's storming of Bab al-Amud area and the subsequent firing of bullets by the occupation army is evidence of the occupation's insistence on implementing what it described as its malicious plans against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Hamas considered this step a dangerous escalation and a provocation to the feelings of the Palestinians.

The movement also held the occupation leaders responsible for the repercussions of the behavior, which it described as provocative.

For its part, Al-Quds Brigades - the military arm of the Islamic Jihad - organized a military parade in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Jenin battle.

Al-Quds Brigades said that the offer also comes for what it called the victory of the West Bank in the face of the continuous Israeli incursions and assassinations.

Al-Quds Brigades also confirmed that it will not stand idly by, and will not leave the Israeli occupation monopolizing the West Bank.