The takeover occurred on Wednesday when settlers broke through the doors of eight vacant Palestinian residences and established an ongoing presence inside. Following the incident, the military mobilized vehicles throughout Jericho and nearby refugee camps during the evening hours. Concurrently, separate operations in Tulkarm resulted in troops raiding the vicinity of a local governmental hospital. The military sweep also included ransacking the residential home of a local political faction leader.
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Settler families have occupied vacant Palestinian residences after forcibly breaching the…: Settler families have occupied vacant Palestinian residences after forcibly breaching the properties west of Jericho.
Coordinated military deployments expanded into urban centers and refugee camps following…: Coordinated military deployments expanded into urban centers and refugee camps following the residential seizures.
Security forces targeted specific political figures by searching and ransacking a Fatah s…: Security forces targeted specific political figures by searching and ransacking a Fatah secretary's home in Tulkarm.
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Israeli settlers seized eight Palestinian homes on Wednesday in the village of al-Duyuk al-Tahta, west of Jericho, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news reported.
Palestinian security sources told Wafa that the settlers, accompanied by their families, stormed the eight homes, which were empty at the time of the raid, and smashed their doors, remaining inside the property.
Israeli forces also stormed Jericho and its refugee camps on Wednesday evening, deploying military vehicles along the city’s streets, according to Wafa.
They also reported that Israeli soldiers raided the area surrounding the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, and ransacked the home of Mohammed Ibrahim Shahada, secretary of Fatah in Tulkarm refugee camp on Wednesday.
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