Two Palestinians shot at Qalandiya checkpoint amid Israeli settler attacks

Two Palestinian youths were shot with live ammunition by Israeli forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem at dawn on Sunday, amid a series of settler attacks, military incursions, detentions, and home raids across the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews in Ramallah treated two Palestinians who had been wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on them at the Qalandiya checkpoint. The organisation did not provide further details on the condition of the injured youths.

The shooting came as multiple areas of the West Bank witnessed incursions by Israeli settlers and occupation forces, accompanied by attacks on property and arrests of residents.

In Nablus governorate, Hassan Mleihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Human Rights Organization, told The New Arab's sister outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that settlers raided the Shakkara community east of the town of Duma, south of Nablus, on Sunday morning.

He said no physical assaults were reported during the raid.

Mleihat also said that settlers attacked the Wadi al-Rakhim area west of the town of Susiya, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, late on Saturday night.

According to him, settlers targeted a home, damaged a number of trees surrounding the house, and attempted to enter it before local residents confronted them and prevented further damage.

Separately, settlers tore apart bags of livestock feed overnight in the Hammamat al-Maleh area of the northern Jordan Valley following a raid, according to local sources. The area has been repeatedly targeted by settler attacks in recent months.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of detention campaigns and home raids across the West Bank.

Local sources said Israeli forces arrested two young men at dawn — Uday Saddam Saber Halaika and Mohammad Wael Shuyoukhi — after storming their homes in the town of Al-Shuyukh, north of Hebron.

Israeli forces also detained two brothers, Jamal and Mohammad Nasser al-Badawi, from Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron, along with another young man. In the city of Nablus, they detained Ibrahim Shawahneh and Sheikh Mohammad Mallah after raiding and searching their homes.

In the Bethlehem area, Israeli forces stormed the towns of Al-Obeidiya and Dar Salah east of the city, as well as Al-Khader to the south and Tuqu’ to the southeast. The incursions took place overnight and into Sunday morning, with no arrests or injuries reported.

The incidents form part of a wider pattern of intensified Israeli military operations and settler violence across the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians continue to face raids, arrests, shootings, and attacks on homes and farmland on a daily basis.