Israeli soldiers arrest two Palestinian men during a raid in Nur Shams camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarm. (Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
An Israeli military convoy of about 20 vehicles has stormed the occupied West Bank village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, the Palestinian Information Center reported Saturday morning. One child was killed and two children have been arrested.
The Palestinian Health Ministry also reported that a child has been killed by a landmine left by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry said seven-year-old Yasser Ali Rashaida was killed in the Rashaida area southeast of Bethlehem.
Security sources told Wafa news that the Israeli soldiers stormed the village and arrested a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old after raiding their parents’ homes from the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli forces have turned Burqa’s central square into an interrogation area for detainees, the report added. A Palestinian man was also “brutally assaulted,” while a Palestinian-owned vehicle has been destroyed.
On Friday night, Israeli forces attacked the town of Silat al-Harithiya west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank during one of their several overnight raids.
Clashes erupted between raiding Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters, who detonated a number of antipersonnel and anti-vehicle bombs against soldiers and military vehicles, according to the Palestinian Information Center media outlet.
Israeli forces were reportedly targeting a prominent Palestinian fighter in the Jenin area, with the raid coming after they arrested a young man around the same area in Silat Friday evening.
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