Israeli dozer destroying a house of a Palestinian detainee in the Westbank. Photo courtesy of Quds news.
According to local sources, Israeli forces demolished the home of Palestinian Malik Ismail Salem in Bazariya town, northwest of Nablus.
Salem and another Palestinian were killed on 10 July after being shot near the Gush Etzion settlement south of Bethlehem.
The Israeli authorities claimed the two had carried out a stabbing and shooting attack, continuing to withhold their bodies.
Witnesses said an Israeli military unit, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed Bazariya, sealed off its entrances, and closed the road linking the cities of Jenin and Nablus, disrupting daily life and halting the educational process.
In a separate assault, Israeli forces also demolished two homes in the town of Jabal al-Mukabber, southeast of Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, occupation troops carried out raids across several cities, detaining around 24 Palestinians, including in Qalqilya, Salfit and Bethlehem.
In Nablus, Israeli forces assaulted a Palestinian woman during pre-dawn raids and detained six Palestinians while storming the Balata and Askar refugee camps, as well as the town of Beit Iba.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday under the protection of Israeli police.
Local sources reported that dozens of settlers entered the courtyards of the holy site, where they performed dances and Talmudic rituals.
In the Jordan Valley, settlers also raided the Bedouin community of Shalal al-Auja, north of the city of Jericho, on Wednesday morning. They released their livestock near residents’ homes in a deliberate attempt to harass them.
These actions come as part of settler-driven, state-backed policies aimed at forcibly displacing Bedouin communities through so-called pastoral settlement expansion.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, attacks by the Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have killed at least 1,103 Palestinians, injured nearly 11,000 others, and led to the arrest of more than 21,000 people, according to Palestinian figures.
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