On Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers stormed the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin, opening fire on the home of Hassan Ali Hassan Raba’iya, 37, Palestinian media reported.

Local sources said that Raba’iya was arrested while injured and later succumbed to his wounds.

Last July, Israeli soldiers killed Raba’iya’s teenage son, Ali, 15, during a similar raid on Meithalun.

The Palestinian security services identified Raba'iya as a first lieutenant in its Preventive Security force, saying he was killed while “performing his national duty.”

In its escalating crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza, the Israeli army has killed more than 820 and wounded more than 6,400.

Palestinian sources have documented more than 6,400 attacks by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their properties in the West Bank in 2024.

More arrests
 

In tandem, the Israeli army arrested at least 20 Palestinians from the West Bank overnight, including children and former detainees, WAFA news agency said.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said these arrests by the Israeli army spanned across all governorates in the West Bank, including Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Jericho, Ramallah, and East Jerusalem.

This brought up the number of those arrested or detained by Israel in the West Bank since October 2023 to 8,000 youth.

East Jerusalem: New figures
 

On Sunday, the Palestinian Jerusalem Governorate Public Relations and Media Unit said Israel has arrested 2,060 in the occupied city since the start of its war on Gaza in October 2023.

The governorate added that Israeli forces killed 82 and injured 296 with live and rubber-coated bullets in the occupied city.

The Israeli authorities also issued 11 travel bans and 127 deportation orders against Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem.

The governorate said it documented storming by 69,017 Israeli settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli soldiers.

It also documented 439 demolition and excavation operations targeting Palestinian-owned homes and structures in the occupied territories in the same period.

The Israeli crackdown on Arab residents in East Jerusalem comes as Tel Aviv forges ahead with building more Jewish settlements in and around the city that Palestinians want as a capital for an independent state.