Photos: Israel Conducts Largest Raid on Ramallah in Years

Palestinian sources reported today, Monday, that "Israeli forces stormed the city of Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, last night, resulting in the death of a 16-year-old boy in a refugee camp during the largest raid on the city in years." Witnesses in Ramallah stated that "Israeli forces invaded the city, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas, with dozens of military vehicles." The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli forces shot and killed a young man named Mustafa Abu Shalbak during a raid on the Al-Amari refugee camp. The Palestinian news agency (Wafa) mentioned that "clashes erupted after the occupation forces stormed the camp and fired live ammunition at the youths, leading to Abu Shalbak being injured in the neck and chest." The Israeli army has not yet responded to requests for comment. Violence has escalated in the West Bank alongside the war in the Gaza Strip, with at least 400 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers. Israel occasionally raids Palestinian areas in lands occupied since 1967. Witnesses also reported that Israeli forces blocked a main road in the town of Tulkarem in the West Bank during a raid there. The Palestinian news agency further reported that "Israeli forces stormed the city of Nablus in the West Bank and blew up the home of a young man previously accused by Israel of carrying out an attack that resulted in the deaths of a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters in April in the West Bank." The Israeli forces killed the young man, named Muath Al-Masri, in Nablus last May.