Palestinian injured as Israeli forces raid West Bank town amid escalation

By Qais Abu Samra and Betul Yilmaz

RAMALLAH, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) – One Palestinian was injured by Israeli army fire in a military raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, medics said.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a young Palestinian was shot in the abdomen in the northern town of Qabatiya and was hospitalized for medical attention.

According to the witnesses, Israeli forces raided the town and began to destroy streets and infrastructure in the area.

Several homes were searched and dozens of residents interrogated in the field during the raid, they added.

Separately, Israeli forces besieged a house in Jenin in the southern West Bank amid reports of gunfire.

At least 969 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,000 injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The International Court of Justice declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal last July and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.