Israeli forces flatten two Palestinian homes in West Bank in fresh aggression

Israeli forces, upping the aggression in the occupied Palestinian territories, blew up two homes belonging to native Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

Media reports Tuesday cited the Israeli military as saying that it demolished the homes of two Palestinians, accusing them of lethally attacking an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank last year.

It said the residences of Mohammed Jaradat and Jit Jaradat were demolished to prevent such assaults on Israeli settlers in the future.

Rights groups have condemned the tactic as “collective punishment.”

The occupying forces regularly carry out demolitions of homes belonging to native Palestinians in the occupied enclave to intimidate and scare them off.

Last year, demolitions and seizure of properties belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank shot up by 32 percent. Over 650 Palestinians were displaced as a result, more than half of them children.

Israeli forces have in recent months brutally suppressed protests held across the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem al-Quds against the regime’s aggression, leaving dozens of Palestinians injured.

Israeli soldiers chase ambulance to detain young Palestinian man injured during protest in West Bank

Israeli military forces chase a Palestinian ambulance in the occupied West Bank in order to stop the vehicle and arrest an injured young man.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that 20 people were hit with rubber bullets fired by the Israeli troops during the clashes in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, on Friday.

It said two emergency medical technicians were also wounded when Israeli troops fired rubber bullets at the ambulance car they were driving in.

Six protesters were also hit with rubber bullets on Sobeih Mountain in Beita, while 36 others suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops.

Since May, Beita, a small town in northern West Bank 13 kilometers southeast of Nablus, has seen intensified clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting against a settlement outpost that has been established on Sobeih Mountain by settlers under the protection of Israeli forces.

In a separate incident last Friday, dozens of Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces attacked a protest rally in the center of the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

The protest was held to condemn the expansion of a military barrier installed at the entrance to Shuhada Street, which connects the city’s neighborhoods.

More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank.

All the settlements are illegal under international law. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the settlement activities in a series of resolutions.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has also called for intensified resistance as the sole way to counter Israeli acts of aggression.

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