Occupation soldiers during a previous storming of the city of Ramallah (Getty)
The occupation forces carried out massive incursions in the West Bank, including neighborhoods in Ramallah and Nablus, from nightfall until dawn on Monday. They also raided the town of Jabal Mukaber, south of Jerusalem, and forced some young men to sign papers not to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.
The occupation soldiers raided homes in the Al-Masayef neighborhood in the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that the occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus from several directions and pushed military vehicles through the city's streets.
Israeli forces also stormed the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, where they conducted patrols accompanied by military vehicles and raided several neighborhoods.
It also stormed the villages of Hajjah and Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and raided neighborhoods to search for those it described as wanted persons.
Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Nablus in the West Bank from several axes and push military vehicles into the streets of the city #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/yqtRfkUW8B
- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) February 19, 2024
In the town of Qabatiya, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank, armed clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces, who stormed the town, besieged residential buildings, and fired smoke bombs in the streets.
In the southern West Bank, the occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, reinforced with a number of military vehicles and accompanied by a bulldozer.
The forces raided the Al-Dhahr area, searched homes and shops, and confiscated surveillance camera recordings.
Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that the occupation forces stormed the city of Dura, south of Hebron.
Israeli occupation forces destroy civilian vehicles in the town of Qabatiya in the Jenin camp in the West Bank #Video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/a7mJeNKIRm
- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) February 19, 2024
The occupation soldiers had assaulted and beaten a Palestinian in the Al-Ras neighborhood in the center of Hebron.
The raids and arrests continue in the cities and camps of the West Bank as part of a broad Israeli escalation since the resistance launched the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on the seventh of last October.
Three Palestinians were killed by occupation bullets yesterday, Sunday, one of them near the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of the city of Nablus, and two in the Tulkarm camp.
On the other hand, the occupation forces stormed the town of Jabal Mukaber, south of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday night, where they carried out raids to search citizens’ homes, including attacks and vandalism of their contents.
The occupation forces also carried out a massive arrest campaign among Palestinian youth after interrogating them and forcing a number of them to sign papers not to enter the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.
⭕ Threatening leaflets that the occupation army is posting in the neighborhoods of the town of Jabal Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem as the month of Ramadan approaches, to warn families and young people against participating in what it claims are “acts of riot and violence inside the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque” pic.twitter.com/gNN09PwN87
— Suribelle 🔻 (@Syribelle) February 18, 2024
In the town of Al-Issawiya, north of Jerusalem, confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation forces, according to eyewitnesses.
Earlier, the occupation forces stormed Shuafat Camp, northeast of Jerusalem, for the third day in a row, and deployed in its neighborhoods while snipers mounted the rooftops.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denounced the Israeli occupation's intention to restrict Palestinian access to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, while the Israeli security establishment warned that Al-Aqsa would unite Muslims against Israel on both sides of the Green Line.
Source: Al Jazeera + Palestinian press