Local sources said that occupation forces raided the cities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala, and the towns of Doha, Al Khader, Beit Fajjar, and Jabal Al Mawalih, in the southern West Bank.
Sources reported that clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem, during which the forces used sound bombs and tear gas.
Israeli occupation forces, backed by a military bulldozer, also stormed Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron. Immediately upon entering, they fired a heavy barrage of sound and flare bombs, raided several homes, and arrested more than 30 Palestinians. The forces also stormed the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, and the town of Sa'ir, northeast of Hebron, conducting patrols and raiding and searching several homes.
Continuous aggression in the northern West Bank
In the northern West Bank, the occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the eighty-third day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the seventieth day.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that the city witnessed a heavy deployment of military vehicles and infantry units on Friday evening, amid heavy firing of live ammunition and sound bombs.
The occupation forces detained a number of Palestinian youths, interrogated them on the spot, and set up a military checkpoint at the old education junction. Infantry forces also stormed the Dhnaba suburb east of the city, carrying out extensive searches and combing operations.
In Nour Shams camp, occupation soldiers fired heavy live ammunition at homes in the Jabal al-Nasr area. An occupation bulldozer also began leveling the schoolyard in Tulkarm camp and closing its northern entrance with more earth mounds, in an attempt to surround and isolate it from its surroundings.
Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces placed barbed wire at the entrances to the camp, while large numbers of occupation soldiers were deployed in the airport neighborhood and began raiding a number of homes, causing widespread vandalism and destruction.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society released a video clip on Friday evening, which it said in a statement was filmed "during the occupation forces' attack on a Red Crescent ambulance crew in the town of Beit Furik," east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
The video showed two Israeli military vehicles intercepting a Red Crescent ambulance, which was driving with its emergency lights on.
The video also documented the moment two soldiers disembarked from one of the vehicles, with one of them heading toward the ambulance. He verbally assaulted the crew before later punching the driver, forcing him to change his route and return at gunpoint.
The attack coincided with clashes in the town, as the crew was heading to the scene in anticipation of casualties, according to the Red Crescent.
In another incident on Friday, the Red Crescent said that "occupation forces detained an ambulance in the Jabal al-Tawil area of the city of al-Bireh (central West Bank) while it was heading to an injured person in the area."
settler attacks
Meanwhile, WAFA quoted the mayor of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, Raed Hamed, as saying on Friday that a number of settlers attacked a group of young men from the town with sticks and stones while they were in agricultural fields adjacent to the entrance to the neighboring town of Deir Jarir. One of them sustained injuries and bruises, and the young man's condition required his transfer to a hospital in Ramallah for treatment.
Local sources also reported that dozens of settlers stormed Mount Al-Arma, located east of the town of Beita, south of Nablus, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces.
Settlers spread out on the top of the mountain and around it, where some of them broke into rooms owned by Palestinians from the town.
On Saturday morning, Hassan Malihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told WAFA that a number of armed settlers stormed the Bedouin village of Ras Ein al-Auja, north of Jericho, accompanied by a herd of livestock. They grazed their sheep among Palestinian homes and vandalized their property to prevent them from using the land.
In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers stole water pumps and vandalized crops in Khirbet al-Deir, according to eyewitnesses.
In parallel with the genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of more than 952 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 7,000 others, and the arrest of 16,400 others, according to Palestinian data.