Israeli forces continue West Bank raids, arrests, demolitions

Israeli forces continued raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, injuring one man and detaining two other people in separate incidents.

A 30-year-old Palestinian man suffered shrapnel wounds to his hand after Israeli forces stormed Nablus' Old City at dawn, raiding several neighbourhoods amid the firing of tear gas and sound bombs, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Raids also took place at the Balata camp and the villages around al-Kafriyat.

In the town of Faroun, south of Tulkarm, a man was arrested after being ordered to report to Israeli intelligence at the Taybeh crossing. A woman, identified as Saja Imad Draghmeh, was detained while passing through the Beit Firuk checkpoint.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces used a bulldozer to demolish a farm in Safa village, west of Ramallah. Locals told Wafa that the farm was situated on land seized by Israeli forces around five years ago.

On Monday, Israeli forces shot and killed 18-year-old Mahmoud Ibrahim Al-Haroub, who died from his injuries in hospital. A bullet became lodged in Al-Haroub's head when was shot in his right eye by the Israeli army at the al-Fawar camp in the town of Dura, south of Hebron. 

Al-Haroub's killing on Monday brought the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank since 7 October to 636, including 147 children.

Israeli forces have been accused of protecting settlers carrying out acts of violence, including on Thursday when dozens of settlers torched Palestinian homes and vehicles in the village of Jit.

The masked settlers fired shots and threw Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes, killing 22-year-old Rashid Sedda and seriously wounding another man.

While carrying out its war on Gaza, where more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, Israel has stepped up raids on the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces have also arrested over 10,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 700 children and 345 women, according to figures from the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, and the Al-Dameer Association for Prisoner Support and Human Rights.