NABLUS, February 27, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday evening shot and detained a young Palestinian man in Qusra town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the occupying forces barged their way into the town and surrounded a house, at a time when sounds of gunfire could be heard from the direction of the house and additional military reinforcements were deployed in the town.
He added that the heavily armed soldiers opened gunfire at Ibrahim Hasan, who was besieged in the house and rounded him up.
There was no immediate information about the condition of his injury.
The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids are conducted without a search warrant whenever and wherever the military chooses, in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
Earlier today, the occupation forces killed a Palestinian youth in a raid in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
The Israeli occupation forces have been waging military aggression in the northern West Bank since January 21, killing at least 63 people and displacing tens of thousands.
The aggression comes in parallel with tightened restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 898 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 18 gates that have been installed since the start of 2025 and 146 others installed in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.
Closures besides other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 58-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
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