Israeli raids, demolitions and settler attacks hit Palestinians across West Bank

Israeli forces and settlers carried out demolitions, raids and attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. In Hebron, which Israel sealed off hours after two Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack nearby, Israeli bulldozers levelled a tile factory, shops and some seven dunams of Palestinian land. Troops also began demolishing a three-apartment residential building and closed all roads into the city. Israeli soldiers raided nearby Beit Ummar, where several Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation, and restricted movement in al-Fawwar refugee camp. Near Bethlehem, Israeli forces forced Palestinian landowners and solidarity activists off their olive groves at gunpoint. In al-Mughayyir, northwest of Ramallah, settlers severely beat a Palestinian man while he was with his family, before Israeli forces detained him and blocked an ambulance. The nature of his injuries remains unclear. Israeli forces detained another young man in the western part of the village, where a second settler attack targeted Palestinians travelling in the area, damaging two vehicles. In Burin, south of Nablus, locals reported that settlers, protected by Israeli forces, tried to set fire to a home. West of Jenin, Israeli forces gave Palestinian families in the hamlet of Khirbet Srouj a week to leave their homes and livestock shelters.