The Israeli army has escalated its operations in the West Bank since last October 7 (Anatolia)

The Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Qalandia camp in the West Bank after a military operation, while two young men were martyred and a third was injured after the occupation soldiers opened fire on a group of young men at the entrance to the town of Beit Awa, south of Hebron.

The occupation forces stormed the camp with the aim of conducting an engineering survey of the house of the perpetrator of the shooting attack that occurred yesterday, Thursday, at a gas station in the “Eli” settlement, which resulted in the killing of two Israelis.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the occupation forces raided last night the house of the martyr Muhammad Manasra, who carried out the operation, in the camp north of occupied Jerusalem during the storming.

The reporter said that confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces during the storming operation, adding that one of the youths was injured by bullets from the occupation forces after they opened fire on a car at the entrance to the camp.

There were conflicting reports about the number of perpetrators of this operation, as Israeli Army Radio said that the perpetrator was one person, a resident of Qalandiya near the city of Jerusalem, while Israeli media sources reported that “a cell of 3 gunmen carried out the shooting operation in the settlement.”

The number of detainees in the West Bank rose to 7,325 people (Anatolia)

Warnings and fears

For its part, the Israeli newspaper Maariv said that the army activated warnings in the Eli settlement due to fears that another person among the perpetrators of the operation would infiltrate after he withdrew from the place.

Amid raids in various areas of the West Bank, the occupation forces killed two young men in Beit Awa.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the two martyrs and the injured person were transferred to Dura Governmental Hospital.

This comes as the Jenin Brigade, affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that its fighters clashed with the occupation forces in the Al-Fawwara axis and targeted its vehicles at the Sanour roundabout.

In related developments, the Israeli occupation authorities released about 40 Palestinian prisoners last night, as the Israeli Prison Service gathered the prisoners in the Ofer military prison, west of Ramallah, before releasing them from the prison gate all at once and suddenly.

Citizens received the prisoners and some of them were transferred to their towns and families, and a number of them showed signs of torture and ill-treatment.

Previously, the Israeli army explained in a statement that the security services decided to release administrative detainees whose detention period had expired, due to limited space in prisons and in order to make room for the most dangerous detainees, according to the statement.

Attack and accusation

For his part, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, attacked the Israeli move on the “X” platform, and said that the administrative detainees were not released due to prison overcrowding, but rather in honor of the head of the Shin Bet in preparation for the month of Ramadan.

Ben Gvir added that it is disturbing that they were released on the day Israelis were killed, in reference to the "Eli" settlement operation, considering that the head of the Shin Bet is thus honoring the killers, as he put it.

Yesterday, Thursday, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced in a joint statement that the number of detainees in the West Bank had risen to 7,325 people since last October 7.

Since the start of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Israeli army has escalated its operations in the West Bank, leaving 410 martyrs and about 4,600 wounded.

Source: Al Jazeera