Dozens of Palestinians were injured this morning after an Israeli army raid of the northern West Bank town of Beita, south of Nablus, according to medical and local sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews treated more than 60 cases in Beita following confrontations with the raiding Israeli forces, two of them from falling and one from burns, while the rest were treated for inhaling the toxic tear gas that prompted the evacuation of two families from their homes due to the gas. Residents told WAFA that the Israeli occupation forces stormed Beita at one o’clock in the morning, pointing out that the forces broke into homes and vandalized property, while videos posted on social media showed the Israeli occupation forces firing tear gas canisters indiscriminately inside the neighborhoods and at the homes. An eyewitness said children, one of them no more than one year old, suffered severe suffocation from the tear gas and others had difficulty breathing due to the proliferation of the gas in the town.
More than 100 military vehicles stormed the town while closing its entrances and preventing entry or exit from it. Beita has been subjected in the past several days to repeated military raids, and its entrances have been closed as some roads that connect it to its surroundings have been bulldozed making it very difficult for its residents to move around.
Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA