Dozens injured as Israeli forces raid Nablus in occupied West Bank

At slightest 80 radical were wounded, including respective who were deed with unrecorded ammunition, aesculapian sources say.

Dozens of radical person been injured successful an Israeli subject raid connected the Palestinian metropolis of Nablus successful the bluish occupied West Bank, according to aesculapian sources.

At slightest 80 radical were wounded, including respective who were deed with unrecorded ammunition, during the raid that began aboriginal connected Wednesday, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society told Al Jazeera that its teams treated 36 people, including immoderate who suffered from teardrop state inhalation during clashes successful Nablus.

The raid began astatine astir 3:00am (00:00 GMT), residents said, with soldiers storming respective neighbourhoods of the aged city, which has a colonisation of astir 30,000 people.

Israel’s subject deployed snipers and subject vehicles, Palestinian quality bureau Wafa reported.

Scenes from the town, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking bureau Sanad, showed Israeli forces firing teardrop state canisters to disperse the protesters, portion different videos documented younker throwing stones astatine subject vehicles and soldiers amid chase-and-run operations, including the apprehension of a kid during the events.

Soldiers were “storming and searching houses and shops wrong the aged city, portion immoderate houses person been turned into subject posts,” said Ghassan Hamdan, caput of the Palestinian Medical Relief organisation successful Nablus.

Reporting from Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera’s Willem Marx said hundreds of soldiers were progressive successful the raid.

“The Governor of Nablus, Ghassan Dhaglas, told maine helium thinks arsenic galore arsenic 2,000 Israeli soldiers person been progressive successful this operation. He described it arsenic a amusement of unit ‘with nary justification'”.

“There person been immoderate arrests,” helium said.

“The Israeli subject is not sharing details astir the operation. They accidental they volition merchandise details erstwhile it is finished,” helium added.

The occupied West Bank has seen a surge successful Israeli military 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.

At slightest 982 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, person been killed by Israeli forces and settlers crossed the territory since October 2023, according to the UN quality rights office.

The aged metropolis of Nablus has been the absorption of respective large Israeli raids. In aboriginal June 2025, the Israeli service carried retired an cognition determination successful which astatine slightest 2 Palestinians were killed.

On Tuesday, the Israeli service launched a prolonged raid connected Ramallah and el-Bireh successful the occupied West Bank, with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reporting that astatine slightest 58 Palestinians were wounded, including astatine slightest 1 child.

Israeli information forces seized astir 1.5 cardinal shekels ($447,000) from wealth speech centres during the raid, Israeli constabulary said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies