Tear gas shelling, detentions, property theft reported during West Bank raids
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Middle East Eye
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Israeli forces and settlers have intensified raids across the occupied West Bank, resulting in tear gas inhalation cases among civilians and children, property theft, and multiple detentions. The operations involved heavy gunfire, stun grenades, and extensive military sweeps of Palestinian towns and villages.
Israeli settlers and the military have continued raids in the occupied West Bank, including the one in which eleven 11 Palestinians, four children among them, suffered from suffocation caused by tear smoke inhalation.
* Wafa reported that during an Israeli military raid on the city of Tubas and the village of Tayasir, east of the city, 11 residents suffered suffocation due to inhalation of tear gas smoke. They were treated by Palestine Red Crescent crews.
* Israeli settlers stole Palestinian property from a Palestinian community near the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Quds News Network.
* Israeli forces stormed the city of Qalqilya, according to QNN.
* A large Israeli military force surrounded the Thabet Roundabout in central Tulkarm on Saturday night, amid heavy gunfire and the firing of stun and illumination grenades, Wafa reported. During the raid, Israeli forces detained a young man whose identity was not immediately known.
* Israeli forces detained the recently released Palestinian, Awda Hamayel, after attacking his home in the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank, QNN reported.