RAMALLAH, West Bank: Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old boy in a refugee camp in the city’s biggest raid in years, Palestinian sources said Monday.
Witnesses in Ramallah said Israeli forces drove dozens of military vehicles into the city, the seat of the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by President Mahmoud Abbas, which exercises limited self-rule over parts of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Mustafa Abu Shalbak during a raid on the Am’ari refugee camp. Reuters television footage showed military vehicles leaving the camp while soldiers with rifles stood nearby.
Palestinian news agency WAFA said the clashes occurred when Israeli forces attacked the camp “during which live bullets were fired at Palestinian youths”, with Abu Shalbak wounded in the neck and chest.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Israeli occupation authorities were making the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank an “unbearable hell” with actions including raids, detentions and restrictions on movement, and warned of “serious risks” of plunging the West Bank into “violence and anarchy”.
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Concurrent with the Gaza war, there has been an increase in violence in the West Bank, with at least 400 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers, and Israel has regularly attacked Palestinian areas in the territory it occupied in 1967.
Israeli forces also tore up a main road near the Nur Shams refugee camp in the Tulkarm area of the West Bank, witnesses said.
“Every time they enter the camp, they destroy more than before,” said Ibrahim Hamarsheh, a camp resident who heads the Tulkarm branch of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, which advocates for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
He said Israeli forces also bulldozed the camp.
WAFA also reported that Israeli forces attacked the West Bank city of Nablus and blew up the home of a man previously accused by Israel of carrying out an attack that killed a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in the West in April. Flask.
The man, Moaz al-Masri, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus last May.
Israeli forces detained at least 55 Palestinians in raids in the West Bank overnight, according to The Palestinian Prisoners Club.
