Occupied Jerusalem, June 4 (SANA) Six Palestinians were injured, 16 others were detained, and an industrial facility was demolished on Thursday during raids by Israeli occupation forces across several areas in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported that Israeli forces raided the town of al-Doha in Bethlehem, where they searched a home and assaulted its residents, leaving five people injured with bruises and wounds.
WAFA added that another Palestinian was injured after being beaten by Israeli settlers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Israeli forces also carried out raids in Jericho and its two refugee camps, as well as in the towns of Husan in Bethlehem, Dhahiriya in Hebron, Umm Safa and Deir Abu Mashal in Ramallah, and the Wadi Az-Din neighborhood and the town of Yamun in Jenin, detaining 16 Palestinians, including a woman with disabilities.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces demolished an industrial facility in the Qabr Hulwa area near the town of Dar Salah, east of Bethlehem, and confiscated a bulldozer.
Israeli settlers also raided the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, where they ploughed Palestinian land in the Al-Jalatiya area east of the town in preparation for seizure. They also attacked a sheep pen and stole a number of sheep.
Meanwhile, 14 independent UN experts warned in a joint statement on Wednesday of a sharp escalation in “Israeli settler terrorism” in the occupied Palestinian territories, posing an existential threat to Palestinian communities. They urged Israel to immediately stop facilitating settler violence and forced displacement operations.
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