Israel carries out largest raid in West Bank’s Ramallah, killing Palestinian teenager and arresting many
Israeli troops drove dozens of military vehicles into the city overnight in Ramallah, which is also the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli attack on the West Bank: The Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday that a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. It is reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the Palestinians’ administrative capital overnight in what is being called their “largest incursion into the city in years.”
The 16-year-old boy was identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health as Mustafa Abu Shalbak. Mustafa Abu Shalbak was reportedly fatally shot by Israeli forces as they entered the Am’ari refugee camp in Ramallah.
An Al Jazeera report citing witnesses said that when clashes broke out between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting the raid, IDF soldiers fired live bullets, shooting Shalbak in the neck and chest.
He was pronounced dead after being taken to the Palestine Medical Complex.
Reuters news agency, citing witnesses, reported that Israeli forces drove dozens of military vehicles overnight into the city of Ramallah, which is also the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Separately, Israeli forces ripped up a main road in the West Bank town of Tulkarm during a raid there, Reuters reported.
Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli forces also stormed the West Bank city of Nablus and blew up a house.
The house is believed to belong to a man accused of carrying out an attack that led to the deaths of a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in occupied Palestinian territory.
The man, Moaz al-Masri, whom Israel accused was killed by IDF soldiers last May.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Israeli forces have carried out night raids and arrested 55 Palestinians, adding that the total number of arrests since the start of the war has risen to around 7,400.
The Palestinian organization said in a statement that the arrest operation was concentrated in Hebron Governorate, where nearly 20 people were detained.
Since then, there has been a major wave of violence in the occupied West Bank
The Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out terror attacks in southern Israel on October 7, sparking the ongoing war in Gaza.
At least 400 people have been killed in the West Bank as a result of clashes with Israeli forces and settlers and with IDF soldiers who regularly carried out attacks in the Palestinian territories it occupied in 1967, Reuters reported.
(With input from the agency)