Early this Wednesday, at least one Palestinian was martyred by a strike from an Israeli drone targeting a vehicle on Jerusalem Street near the Balata refugee camp intersection east of Nablus in the occupied northern West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that the Israeli occupation forces closed off the area where the targeted vehicle was located, preventing medical teams and ambulances from accessing the site, and fired directly upon them.
The Red Crescent later added that its crews managed to recover the remains of a martyr at the vehicle bombing site in the Balata camp.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces deployed additional military reinforcements to the eastern area of Nablus city in the northern West Bank.
The correspondent stated that the occupation forces confiscated the vehicle that was bombed on Jerusalem Street adjacent to the Balata camp.
Video clips broadcast by local networks on social media showed the vehicle targeted near the Balata camp in east Nablus engulfed in flames, with the specific target of the strike not immediately known.
🔥 The vehicle that was bombed by the occupation forces near Balata camp east of Nablus.
— Shehab Agency (@ShehabAgency) January 17, 2024
Intensive Raids
On the same early Wednesday morning, Israeli occupation forces raided several cities and towns across the West Bank and stormed a number of homes within them.
They entered the area of Ras al-Jora, Deir Bahaa, and Al-Ghaldeh in the city of Hebron, stormed several homes, conducted searches, terrified the residents, and arrested a Palestinian.
Israeli forces also raided the town of Idna west of Hebron, and carried out extensive search operations, accompanied by assaults on Palestinians.
Additionally, occupation forces this morning invaded the Kfar Saba neighborhood in the city of Qalqilya, blocking roads and junctions leading to the neighborhood with their vehicles, while soldiers broke into several Palestinian homes, amidst overflights of reconnaissance drones.
Infiltration was also seen in the towns of Azzoun and Kafr Thulth east of Qalqilya, amidst the deployment of sound bombs and tear gas.
Since the launch of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle by the resistance on October 7th, Israeli aggressions in the West Bank have escalated, resulting in more than 350 Palestinian martyrs and over 5,000 others arrested up to this point.
The Israeli army continues its raid operations, while the newspaper “Haaretz” reported security officials stating that the situation in the West Bank is on the verge of explosion.
