Palestinian children among those detained in Israeli West Bank raids amid escalating settler violence

Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians, including two children, in overnight and predawn raids across the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian local sources. The detentions occurred in the governorates of Tubas, Nablus, and Bethlehem.

In parallel, Israeli settlers engaged in separate acts of violence. A Palestinian man and his wife were attacked and injured on their farmland in the al-Zarqa area of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah. Residents from the Bat Ayin outpost near Hebron set fire to a car, damaged another, and spray-painted racist graffiti on a house in Surif. Additionally, three young Palestinian men were assaulted with pepper spray on the road between al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah after settlers rammed their vehicle with an all-terrain vehicle.

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This level of everyday disruption, she said, has become difficult to separate from the settlement expansion driving it.

Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh reported from Ramallah that Israeli military jeeps were constantly roaming through the city, with soldiers using tear gas inside a supermarket. She noted that this level of everyday disruption has become difficult to separate from the settlement expansion driving it. Odeh added that settlers have erected 12 illegal outposts in the past seven days alone. In Asira ash Shamaliya, near Nablus, troops reportedly stormed dozens of homes and converted one into a makeshift field interrogation center.

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Settlers have erected another illegal outpost this week, Odeh added, the 12th such construction in the past seven days alone.