Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank late Friday night, prompting fierce clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters. The Israeli forces fired flares over the old city as they raided a house in the historic district.
According to local sources, the Israeli occupation troops were targeted with a homemade explosive device and heavy gunfire near the al-Ain refugee camp, west of Nablus. In response, the Al-Quds Brigades – Nablus Battalion, alongside other local fighters, engaged the Israeli forces during their incursion into the al-Ain camp, unleashing a barrage of gunfire and explosive devices.
Israeli settler militias burned down Palestinian vehicles in Beit Furik town, the occupied West Bank this morning. pic.twitter.com/bADNKVP6pv
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The clashes came amid a surge of resistance operations across the occupied West Bank over the past several hours. A total of 13 incidents were documented, including shootings, armed confrontations, detonation of explosive devices, Molotov cocktail attacks, and stone-throwing at eight different locations. The resistance fighters also burned and smashed a settler’s vehicle that had entered the city, and repelled an Israeli raid.
In a separate incident in al-Quds (Jerusalem), Palestinian youth set a settler’s car ablaze after he entered the town of Abu Dis, east of the city, leading to confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces who stormed the area.