The Israeli army has carried out a number of raids within the occupied West Bank as heavy preventing continued throughout the Gaza Strip a day after the United States used its veto energy within the United Nations Security Council to dam overwhelming calls for for a direct humanitarian ceasefire.
The raids that began in a single day and continued into Saturday occurred close to Jenin, Qalqilya, Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron as at the very least 15 Palestinians had been detained throughout the area, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society informed Al Jazeera.
An adolescent was killed by Israeli forces in Dura, within the south of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health mentioned.
Meanwhile, Sari Yousef Amr, a 25-year-old Palestinian, who was shot by Israeli forces earlier on Saturday subsequently died, the Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
Amr was wounded through the raid in Dura, with Wafa citing his father as saying that Israeli forces fired reside bullets into his house earlier than detaining Amr and his brother Suhaib.
The ministry mentioned at the very least 273 individuals, together with 63 youngsters, have been killed within the occupied West Bank since October 7, when the Israeli-Palestinian battle broke out.
The assaults by Palestinian armed group Hamas that day prompted Israel to start an enormous air and floor offensive in Gaza that has killed near 17,500 individuals. In Israel, the dying toll stands at 1,147.
Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah, mentioned that raids have been carried out each day in a number of Palestinian cities and cities within the occupied West Bank.
“Israel even detains people who have been released as part of the latest [truce] deal,” she mentioned, which noticed the trade of captives held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Some of the prisoners have been held and crushed earlier than being freed once more.
While Israeli forces haven’t rearrested any of the greater than 200 Palestinians who had been launched as a part of the short-term pause, that might quickly change with the uptick in raids within the occupied West Bank, Ibrahim mentioned.
“Palestinians say it could be a matter of minutes, that [Israeli forces] would arrest those prisoners,” she mentioned, noting that the variety of Palestinian arrests mounts daily.
A 15-year-old in Jericho was detained for two.5 hours, crushed up and ultimately launched, in accordance with our correspondent.
In the primary 4 days of a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas, Israel launched 150 Palestinian prisoners. Over the identical 4 days, Israel arrested at the very least 133 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in accordance with Palestinian prisoner associations.
More than 3,600 individuals have been arrested since Hamas’s October 7 infiltration and assault.
In Jenin, Israeli forces on Saturday detained 4 brothers of Bilal Diab – a reported member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, whereas a minor was taken into custody from Qalqilya. At least 4 Palestinians had been detained in Ramallah, with extra detentions in Bethlehem and Hebron.
Gaza bombardment
Israeli army jets had been pounding elements of north, central and south Gaza.
There had been strikes on the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, and at the very least 5 individuals had been killed in a separate assault in Rafah – a metropolis designated by the Israeli army as protected, the Ministry of Health in Gaza mentioned.
Many of the 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza who’ve been displaced by the conflict have headed south, turning Rafah close to the Egyptian border into an enormous camp of despair and desperation as Israel’s offensive has widened.
“In Khan Younis, there has been non-stop artillery shelling and aerial bombardment on the eastern and central sides. The Israeli military vehicles kept pushing to the centre of the city, very close to the vicinity of Nasser hospital,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafa.
“A home was targeted where an entire family, 13 people, were killed this morning,” he mentioned.
Deir el-Balah in central Gaza was additionally focused.
“This area was described as a safe area by the Israeli army, that’s why there are so many displaced people here. Survivors are trying to rescue those injured. The state of destruction is massive and it’s very difficult to rescue those injured. There is no equipment and everyone, including the rescue officials, is using their hands to remove the rubble,” mentioned our colleague at Al Jazeera Arabic.
‘People haven’t eaten for days’
Vast areas of Gaza have been diminished to rubble and the UN says about 80 p.c of the inhabitants has been displaced, with dire shortages of meals, gas, water and drugs reported.
Mahmoud mentioned individuals in Rafah lack all the essential provides that might assist them survive.
“People here haven’t eaten for the past two days. If people do not die from the bombardment, they could die from starvation,” he mentioned.
He added: “The situation is very desperate. It’s very cold and windy … and there is a possibility of floods if it started to rain. The tents are very small and inappropriate for people to live in.”
Meanwhile, with the dying toll of medical employees within the battle mounting, greater than a dozen World Health Organization member states submitted a draft decision on Friday that urged Israel to respect its obligations beneath worldwide regulation to guard medical and humanitarian employees in Gaza, in addition to hospitals and different medical amenities.
Only 14 of the 36 hospitals within the Gaza Strip had been functioning in any capability, in accordance with UN humanitarian company OCHA.
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