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Illegal Israeli settlers stab disabled Palestinian in northeastern West Bank

Wednesday, 26 February 2025 9:59 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 26 February 2025 9:59 AM ]

Israeli settlers walk with batons during clashes in which extremist settlers attacked Palestinian residents and shops in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank. (File photo by AFP)

A group of illegal Israeli settlers has stabbed a disabled young Palestinian man in the northeastern sector of the West Bank, amid the Tel Aviv regime’s expansion of military offensives across the occupied territory.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics transferred a 20-year-old man to a hospital in the city of Tubas on Tuesday, after he was stabbed in the abdomen by settlers.

No details were provided about the circumstances of the knife attack.

Since last month, the Israeli army has been carrying out military actions in the northern West Bank, which has led to the loss of more than 60 lives and the displacement of thousands of residents.

Meanwhile, Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz said on Sunday that the regime’s army had “evacuated” three refugee camps in the northern West Bank, and had been ordered to remain there “to prevent the return of [Palestinian] residents.”

“So far, 40,000 Palestinians have evacuated from the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, which are now empty of residents,” he said in a statement.

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Katz noted that he has instructed Israeli soldiers to prepare for a prolonged presence in the cleared camps for the next year, and to "prevent the return of residents and the resurgence of terrorism."

The Israeli military launched its onslaught on the occupied West Bank on January 21, claiming that it was targeting resistance fighters of the Jenin Battalion.

Since the onset of the Gaza war in October 2023, attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers have killed at least 923 Palestinians and injured nearly 7,000 in the occupied West Bank.

Last July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, demanding the evacuation of all illegal settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds.

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