Jericho: Extremist Jewish settlers on Monday established a new settlement outpost near the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho.
According to Jordan News Agency, Hassan Mleihat, Chairman of Albaidar Association for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, stated that large numbers of armed settlers brought equipment to the area and conducted bulldozing operations aimed at imposing a new colonial reality on the ground.
Mleihat highlighted that seven pastoral settlement outposts are situated in Al-Auja, identifying them as primary tools used to seize Palestinian land and restrict the residents, threatening their presence and continuity in the northern valley and Jericho areas for the benefit of Israeli settlement expansion.
In a related development, Israeli occupation forces demolished commercial shops in the central vegetable market, known as Al-Hisbeh, in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Beita Municipality reported that Israeli occupation forces raided the market at dawn, compelled shop owners to remove goods and vegetables, and subsequently began demolishing the shops with bulldozers.
Settlers also attacked the town of Burin, south of Nablus. Burin Municipality indicated that several extremist Jewish settlers assaulted the town in the morning, obstructed a farmer from working on his land, and attempted to attack a home in the village before residents confronted them.
Israeli occupation forces additionally conducted a series of raids across several West Bank cities, towns, villages, and camps, as well as occupied Jerusalem. The raids involved arrests, home searches, and field interrogations of dozens of Palestinians. Several areas in the West Bank experienced raids on homes and facilities, military measures, the detention of residents, searches inside homes, tampering with property, and field interrogations.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society announced that Israeli occupation forces detained 15 Palestinians.