The occupation launches a massive arrest campaign in the West Bank (Anatolia)

Israeli raids and arrests continued since dawn on Monday in the cities of the occupied West Bank, and a Palestinian died as a result of his injury in an Israeli bombing in Jenin, while the Israeli occupation forces set up surveillance cameras on the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation forces withdrew from the city of Tulkarm after storming it, where they launched arrest operations in the Shweika suburb and a number of the city’s neighborhoods and its camp, and arrested a number of citizens, including freed prisoners.

The occupation soldiers raided the house of Alaa Shreiteh, who the occupation authorities say is wanted by them. They searched the house and arrested his mother, wife, and brother Mahmoud to pressure him to surrender himself.

The occupation forces, reinforced with a number of military vehicles, also stormed the city of Nablus, and pictures broadcast by Palestinian platforms showed the storming process, as the occupation forces conducted patrols in a number of residential neighborhoods in the city.

Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Nablus and Tulkarm in the West Bank and conduct patrols in several neighborhoods.


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A martyr in Jenin

Al Jazeera correspondent Walid Al-Omari said that a young man was martyred today at dawn in Rafidia Hospital in Nablus from his wounds as a result of a bombing carried out by an Israeli drone in the Jenin camp 3 days ago. Thus, the number of those who were martyred in this assassination increased to 3 martyrs.

He added that the number of Palestinians killed by occupation soldiers and settlers in the West Bank since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip rose to 407 martyrs, including 88 martyrs who fell since the beginning of this year.

The occupation forces also stormed the Nablus municipal stadium and beat dozens of Gaza workers inside, before arresting them.

Press coverage: “The occupation forces arrest a number of Gaza workers in the West Bank after they were beaten at the Nablus municipal stadium.”

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In Ramallah, the occupation forces stormed the towns of Silwad, Barqa, and Shaqba, without any arrests or confrontations reported.

Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli foot forces were stationed in several locations in Silwad, and opened fire on moving objects and cars.

The Israeli occupation forces also stormed, at dawn today, the towns of Beit Ummar, Dura and Masafer Yatta in the Hebron Governorate, and launched a campaign of arrests among citizens.

In Jenin, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Arbouna, Wadir Ghazaleh, and Arana, raided their neighborhoods, drove their vehicles through their streets, fired light bombs into the skies of those villages, and launched a campaign of arrests among citizens.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces today arrested Mustafa Nasser Abu Arab (29 years old) from the city of Beit Jala in the west, and the freed prisoner and Muhammad Akram Shafut (42 years old) from the Dheisheh camp in the south.

Yesterday, Sunday, the Palestinian Authority for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs (governmental) and the Prisoners’ Club (Ahli) said in a joint statement that the number of detainees in the West Bank has risen to 7,210 since last October 7.

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In occupied Jerusalem, yesterday evening, the Israeli occupation forces erected a tower and placed surveillance cameras on it, on the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Eyewitnesses said that the occupation forces placed 3 cement cubes on the western wall of the mosque and installed watchtowers above it.

A Palestinian source told Al Jazeera Net that the occupation authorities in Jerusalem carried out work a few days ago on the tank school above Bab al-Silsilah, in the western corridor of the mosque, and placed barriers around the workplace.

The same source added that the occupation installed - yesterday afternoon - a high-rise communications tower equipped with sensors through which the movement of those arriving to the mosque can be tracked, and high-resolution cameras that would reveal all the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A source told Al Jazeera Net that the occupation police in Jerusalem reinforced the surveillance cameras in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the alleys of the Old City of Jerusalem, and replaced the old cameras with modern ones.

The Israeli measures come at a time when the occupation is moving to restrict the access of Palestinians from 1948 and Jerusalem to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.

On February 18, the private Channel 13 said that despite the Israeli Shin Bet warning of unrest between Palestinians inside the country and the Israeli police, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the recommendation of the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, “to limit the access of Palestinian worshipers to... Al-Aqsa Mosque during the coming month of Ramadan.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies