Director of anti-settlement group abducted in Israeli raid on occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have carried out a raid in the northern sector of the West Bank and abducted the director of an anti-settlement monitoring group, in the latest violence in the occupied territory.
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli troops stormed the town of Kafr Qaddum, located 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) east of Qalqilya, on Thursday morning, and broke into the home of Murad Shteiwi, director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC).
The CWRC serves as a Palestinian governmental commission associated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its role involves documenting the illegal growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and providing legal safeguards for Palestinians whose land has been seized by Israeli authorities and illegal settlers.
In 2014, Israeli forces arrested Shteiwi for his role in organizing and participating in protests against the regime’s settlements.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces demolished a home in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, on Thursday morning.
The head of the al-Mughayyir Village Council, Amin Abu Aliya, told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the village and demolished a two-story house under construction.
He added that the demolition took place in the southern part of the village, and was carried out under the pretext of building without a permit.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent state with East al-Quds as its capital.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has intensified its aggression towards Palestinians throughout the West Bank, following the initiation of a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of Palestinians have since been killed and thousands more wounded in the West Bank.
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