Child among 24 Palestinians wounded by Israeli army raid in Ramallah

Israeli snipers positioned themselves connected rooftops arsenic troops stormed Ramallah and el-Bireh.

The Israeli service has launched a raid connected Ramallah and el-Bireh successful the occupied West Bank, with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reporting that astatine slightest 24 Palestinians person been wounded successful the attacks.

The wounded included a 12-year-old child, changeable successful the backmost adjacent a rootlike market, the Wafa quality agency, citing aesculapian teams, reported connected Tuesday.

Witnesses connected the crushed said Israeli forces stormed a currency speech store successful an country betwixt Ramallah and el-Bireh, detaining astatine slightest 3 Palestinians portion Israeli snipers positioned themselves connected rooftops arsenic troops stormed the cardinal rootlike marketplace area.

A 71-year-old antheral and 4 different radical were besides wounded successful the head, face, abdomen and cervix by rubber-coated alloy bullets.

BREAKING: Israeli concern soldiers occurrence a stun grenade into a shop, sparking fearfulness among civilians, during their ongoing raid into downtown Ramallah. pic.twitter.com/HvKiGdOHyF

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 26, 2025

Five others, including 2 large women, suffered from teardrop state inhalation during the raid.

A rescue squad was prevented from reaching the wounded successful the besieged areas, they said.

Xavier Abu Eid, erstwhile connection manager for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said the raid lasted a fewer hours successful an country adjacent to 3 schools and a market.

“This is portion of the regular beingness of Palestinians,” Abu Eid told Al Jazeera from Ramallah, noting that Israel is conducting a amusement of unit to punctual residents “who is really ruling here”.

War connected ‘all Palestinian people’

Adel Abdel Ghafar, elder chap astatine the Middle East Council connected Global Affairs, said Israel’s latest subject cognition successful Ramallah showed its warfare is not conscionable with Hamas oregon Gaza but with “all the Palestinian people”.

“We’ve seen expanding incursions of the Israeli subject into the West Bank. We’ve seen the demolition of homes. We’ve seen demolition of properties,” helium told Al Jazeera.

“This is each portion and parcel of the corporate punishment of the Palestinian radical successful the West Bank,” helium said, adding that portion of the extremity is to “financially strangle” radical successful the territory.

He added that Israel was capable to transportation retired its operations “with impunity crossed the West Bank” due to the fact that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is incapable to respond effectively.

BREAKING: Israeli service snipers inhabit the rooftop of the Arab Care Hospital successful downtown Ramallah, successful the cardinal occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/why01lw80M

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 26, 2025

The West Bank has seen a surge successful Israeli subject and settler violence since Israel launched its warfare connected Gaza successful October 2023, and tens of thousands of Palestinians person been forced retired of their homes.

Ramallah recorded the highest fig of attacks, 585, followed by 479 successful Nablus successful the bluish West Bank.

At slightest 671 Palestinians, including 129 children, person been killed by Israeli forces and settlers crossed the portion since October 2023, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Paris-based governmental writer Faten Elwan said the raid successful Ramallah appeared to beryllium much of a amusement of unit implicit the occupied West Bank alternatively than a targeted subject operation.

“Israel is sending a wide connection that Oslo is dead, that the Palestinian Authority is dormant and that determination is nary powerfulness connected the crushed but the Israeli forces and the settlers that present enactment arsenic a shadiness authorities for the imaginativeness of the Israeli army,” she told Al Jazeera.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies