Palestinians on edge as Israel ramps up raids in wake of Jerusalem attack

Israeli forces tempest towns, villages and transportation retired arrests northwest of Jerusalem aft a deadly shooting connected Monday.

Israeli forces person stormed towns and villages, aft 2 gunmen opened occurrence astatine a autobus halt successful occupied East Jerusalem, killing six people, raising fears of further subject and Israeli settler unit against Palestinians and corporate punishment successful the occupied West Bank arsenic Israel relentlessly pounds Gaza.

On Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Wafa quality agency, citing section sources, reported that Israeli forces stormed the municipality of Biddu and closed its main entranceway that connects it to the municipality of al-Jib, which is the lone main roadworthy for astir “70,000 citizens successful the area”.

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During the raid, Israeli forces fired unrecorded bullets, dependable bombs and, amid clashes with locals, fired toxic and teardrop gas.

Israeli forces besides raided respective towns northwest of Jerusalem and carried retired arrests utilizing dense teardrop gas. In the municipality of Qatna, a fig of young men were arrested aft a residential gathering was raided, Wafa added.

Following the attack, Israeli service main Eyal Zamir said successful a connection connected Monday that helium had ordered a “full closure” of the country that the alleged gunmen had travel from.

“We volition proceed with a determined and ongoing operational and quality effort, we volition prosecute panic cells everywhere, and we volition thwart violent infrastructure and its organisers,” helium said.

While raids successful the occupied West Bank person ramped up since the warfare successful Gaza began, Monday’s onslaught has heightened tensions.

Local sources connected the crushed told Al Jazeera Arabic that a fig of settlers had attacked homes belonging to Palestinians and spray-painted racist slogans successful the colony of Jurish, southbound of Nablus.

Meanwhile, successful Hebron governorate, Israeli forces arrested 2 radical and acceptable up respective subject checkpoints astatine the entrances to the towns, villages and camps. Soldiers besides closed respective superior and secondary roads, Wafa reported.

At the aforesaid time, soldiers blew up the location of captive Thabet Masalma successful the municipality of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, which led to clashes with locals, during which Israeli troops fired unrecorded ammunition, wounding 2 people.

Masalma is accused of being portion of a shooting onslaught 8 months agone that resulted successful the decease of an Israeli settler and wounded 3 others.

The demolition leaves the detainee’s wife, parents and 3 children homeless.

It is portion of a signifier of corporate punishment actions targeting the families of Palestinian suspects successful caller years, including the deportation of household members, that Israeli ministers pledged to property up with successful the aftermath of Monday’s shootings to enactment arsenic a deterrent against aboriginal attacks.

The Israeli service says it has taken surveys astatine the homes of the 2 Palestinian suspects from Monday’s shooting attack, to hole their homes for demolition.

Israeli quality rights radical B’Tselem has documented astatine slightest 26 homes demolished successful the occupied West Bank arsenic a punitive measurement successful 2025, displacing much than 70 Palestinians.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies