The Israeli occupation began on Thursday rebuilding the evacuated "Ganim" settlement east of the city of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, 21 years after its evacuation, with 30 settler families moving in for permanent residence.
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The rebuilding effort comes as part of a broader project to re-establish settlements in the northern West Bank, coinciding with the demolition of Palestinian structures and the paving of roads to connect new settlements and outposts.
"Ganim," alongside "Kadim," "Homesh," and "Sa-Nur," were the four settlements evacuated by "Israel" in the northern West Bank in 2005, in conjunction with its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
In a separate incident, settlers attacked a house and a farm in the Jabal Al-Qarn area of Al-Minya village, east of Bethlehem, stealing more than a hundred head of sheep and a vehicle, while uprooting over a hundred olive trees.
Ahmad Kawazba, head of the Al-Minya Village Council, stated in a release that settlers launched the attack at 3:00 AM, coinciding with Israeli occupation forces detaining family members present at the home and farm and taking them to an unknown location. He explained that the attackers destroyed the solar power system supplying electricity to the property and severed the water line before withdrawing.
Furthermore, settlers physically assaulted members of the family, injuring two individuals. One of the injured was transported to Al-Hussein Hospital in Beit Jala for medical treatment, while occupation forces arrested the other injured family member despite their critical condition.
In the same context, Israeli occupation forces forced residents of two Palestinian homes to evacuate and converted 16 other homes into military barracks in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Abdul-Azeem Al-Wadi, head of the Qusra Village Council, said in a statement that several occupation vehicles and a military bulldozer raided the town at dawn, noting that occupation soldiers forced residents of two homes in the Ras Al-Ain area to evacuate.
Al-Wadi pointed out that occupation forces transformed 16 homes in the town into military posts. According to local Palestinian sources, occupation forces raided the town in large numbers, deploying across its western and southern sectors, with reports indicating that over a thousand soldiers participated in the raid.
Relatedly, Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque – Al-Haram Al-Sharif in occupied Jerusalem under heavy protection from Israeli occupation police.
The Jerusalem Governorate stated that dozens of extremist settlers, accompanied by rabbis and led by extremist rabbi and former Israeli Knesset member Yehlick "Yehuda Glick," entered the eastern plaza opposite the Dome of the Rock. They performed provocative Talmudic rituals and conducted suspicious tours throughout the mosque's courtyards under tight guard by occupation police, who closed all external gates of Al-Aqsa to secure the incursions by extremist settlers.
Additionally, Israeli occupation forces carried out a widespread campaign of raids, searches, and arrests across several West Bank cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps. The raids featured arrests, gunfire, detentions, and field interrogations of citizens, alongside searching dozens of homes, ransacking their contents, and abusing and detaining residents for hours, while settlers continued their attacks across various regions.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society stated that occupation forces arrested 26 Palestinians.
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