The occupation forces launch a campaign of arrests and torture against people in the West Bank (Al Jazeera)

The people of the Jenin camp and city in the northern West Bank mourned the bodies of the martyrs Yasser Hanoun and Saeed Jaradat. While the Israeli occupation forces continued to storm cities and villages, settlers attacked Palestinian property in one of the villages of Nablus.

Earlier Thursday evening, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that two people were killed and 15 injured, as a result of the occupation drone bombing a car in the Jenin camp.

The funeral procession started from Jenin Hospital, led by dozens of Palestinian resistance fighters, and mourners roamed the streets of the city and the camp amid angry chants denouncing the crime of assassinating the two martyrs.

Israel says that the Jenin camp is a center of activity for Palestinian resistance factions and includes dozens of fighters from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah movements, and from there operations are launched against Israeli targets.

Scenes from the funeral of the bodies of the two martyrs, Yasser Hanoun and Saeed Jaradat, who were killed when the occupation aircraft bombed a vehicle in the Jenin camp yesterday..

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- Jenin Camp - Jenin Camp (@JeninCamp1950) February 23, 2024

Arrest campaigns

In a related context, the occupation forces stormed the villages of Al-Ta'amra and Za'atara in the Bethlehem district and arrested two Palestinians, and arrested 9 others from the Dheisheh camp and the city of Tulkarm.

The Israeli occupation forces, reinforced by a number of military vehicles, stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank and conducted patrols in several neighborhoods in the city and the vicinity of the Old City.

The Israeli occupation army said that its forces arrested 9 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank last night, claiming that they were wanted by the Israeli security services.

The occupation army confirmed that its forces had arrested about 3,200 wanted Palestinians from the West Bank, including more than 1,350 for their association with the Hamas movement, since the declaration of war on the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority for Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club said in a joint statement that the number of detainees in the West Bank has risen to 7,150 Palestinians since last October 7.

The two institutions indicated widespread acts of abuse, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes, and the confiscation of money and vehicles.

Settler attacks

For his part, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that a number of settlers infiltrated the outskirts of the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, and threw Molotov cocktails at a car, causing it to burn, without causing any casualties.

The village of Burin has witnessed repeated attacks by settlers since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, which included the destruction of property, homes, and agricultural land, and the uprooting of olive trees.

According to data from the Wall Resistance Commission in its annual report, Israeli settlers carried out 2,410 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during 2023, at a time when 25 Bedouin communities were displaced, including 22 communities after October 7, 2023.

At the beginning of this February, the United States imposed sanctions on 4 settlers and prevented them from entering its territory, against the backdrop of the sharp increase in violence against Palestinians across the West Bank over the past months, which sparked Israel’s anger.

Since the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, and the army has escalated its operations, leaving 399 dead and about 4,500 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Israel is waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that has left tens of thousands of victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and a noticeable deterioration in infrastructure and property, according to Palestinian and UN data, which led to Israel appearing before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies