Ramallah - Saba:
Israeli forces stormed the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, on Wednesday, raiding and vandalizing homes.
The Palestinian SAFA News Agency reported that Israeli forces stormed the town since the early hours of the morning. Soldiers raided and vandalized homes, searched and destroyed their contents, and interrogated residents.
The enemy forces stormed all the town's neighborhoods and alleys, with soldiers deployed in the streets and residents prevented from moving.
The enemy raided the homes of prisoners released in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal and searched their homes.
In the same context, the enemy authorities on Wednesday demolished the tents of the residents of the unrecognized village of al-Araqib, which is threatened with uprooting and displacement in the Negev region, within the 1948 territories. This was the 238th time in 2025 that the enemy authorities have demolished the tents and modest homes housing the residents of al-Araqib. They demolished them 11 times in 2024, 11 times in 2023, 15 times in 2022, and 14 times in 2021, in their repeated attempts to drive the villagers to despair and displace them from their lands.
The first time the enemy demolished Al-Araqib was on July 27, 2010, while the previous demolition occurred on October 13.
The residents of Al-Araqib insist on remaining and clinging to their land. Each time, they re-erect their tents using wood and nylon coverings to protect them from the intense heat of the summer and the bitter cold of the winter, and to resist plans to uproot and displace them from their land.
The enemy authorities, with all their arms, pursue the residents of Al-Araqib using various methods and means. They have imposed heavy fines on the residents and continue their policies and practices of harassment, persecution, and arrests.
In contrast, the Zionist authorities refuse to recognize their right to ownership of the land and are harassing them with the aim of forcibly evicting them by demolishing the village, destroying crops, and preventing them from grazing and raising livestock.
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