HEBRON: Confrontations broke out today between local residents and Israeli occupation forces following an Israeli military raid into the town of Beit Ummar, located to the north of Hebron.
Muhammad Awad, a local activist, said Israeli forces raided several houses in the said town, where they vandalized and destroyed furniture
The occupying military forces also broke into Palestinian-owned lands belonging to local families across several neighborhoods in Beit Ummar.
In the aftermath of the military incursion, confrontations broke out with the Israeli forces, during which the occupation forces randomly fired live bullets towards locals, but no injuries were reported.
Israeli forces further seized a vehicle owned by local citizen Muhammad Adi, and forced him to drive it to the entrance of the illegal colonial settlement of Kermei Tzurcolony.
Israeli forces also broke into the town of Dura, south the city, where they detained two people after raiding their homes and tampering with their contents, they also r
aided the town of Al-Dhahiriya in the south, and detained another.
In a related context, Israeli forces continue to set up several flying military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron, its towns, villages and camps, and close a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement cubes and earth mounds.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA
