Israeli army forces launched a wide-ranging arrest campaign on Monday across the city of Tulkarm and its surrounding towns for the second consecutive day, resulting in the detention of 20 Palestinians, including a woman.
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Local sources told the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) that Israeli army forces arrested five Palestinians from the town of Deir al-Ghusun to the north, after raiding their homes and ransacking their contents.
The sources added that military forces raided homes in the village of Ar-Ras, south of Tulkarm, detaining three young men, while others were arrested from the towns of Far'un, Anabta, and the Shweika neighborhood north of Tulkarm.
In Nablus, a mother from the village of Qaryut lost her unborn child after Israeli army forces obstructed an ambulance, preventing it from passing through the Awarta military checkpoint south of the city.
Qaryut paramedic Bashar al-Qaryuti told WAFA that Israeli army forces impeded medical crews, refusing to allow the ambulance through the checkpoint after closing its gates, and detaining the crew. They also subjected a pregnant woman in her sixth month, who was suffering from severe bleeding, to a search despite her critical medical condition.
He added that soldiers forced the crew to shut off the ambulance engine, causing life-support and medical equipment inside to stop functioning. After being detained for over half an hour, the vehicle was finally allowed to proceed.
WAFA reported that although the woman reached the hospital, she lost her fetus, while medical staff managed to save her life.
Home Demolition in Jenin
In a related development, Israeli army forces demolished a three-story house on Monday in the Arraba Station area, southwest of Jenin, amid a heavy military deployment—a step that forms part of a series of measures targeting the area recently.
According to local sources, Israeli army forces stormed the Arraba Station area with three military bulldozers, supported by large numbers of foot soldiers and military vehicles. They imposed a military cordon around the site and sealed off the area's entrances before proceeding to demolish the three-story residential home belonging to local resident Jihad Musa.
Israeli military authorities had notified the homeowner several months ago of the demolition order under the pretext of building without a permit. This prompted him to pursue legal avenues, filing objections and appeals with relevant authorities in an attempt to halt the decision; however, those efforts proved futile, and occupation forces executed the demolition by force, according to WAFA.
The demolition comes amidst escalating Israeli military measures in the Arraba Station area, which has recently witnessed land bulldozing, demolitions, and targeting of Palestinian properties.
Seizure of Palestinian Land East of Tubas
In the same context, Israeli military authorities issued six military orders last night to seize 498 dunams of Palestinian land across various areas east of the Tubas Governorate.
The settlement file official in Tubas Governorate stated that the military orders target lands belonging to Tubas, Tayasir, Al-Aqaba, Ibziq, and Raba. He noted that these orders serve as an extension of the "Crimson Thread" project announced by the occupation late last year and initiated for implementation this year.
For its part, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission clarified that the orders target 498 dunams of citizens' land in the governorate, adding that attached schedules showed the army allocating 360,172 dunams of land previously declared as "state land"—accounting for roughly 72.3% of the total targeted area, according to WAFA.
The Israeli army had previously issued several military orders seizing hundreds of dunams of land from citizens in the Tubas Governorate, while isolating thousands of dunams of agricultural and grazing land, particularly in the northern Jordan Valley.
Over the recent period, the army also destroyed hundreds of dunams of farmland and water supply pipelines in the Atuf area—one of the regions through which the so-called "Crimson Thread" project passes—severely impacting the local agricultural economy.
(Agencies)
