Israeli raids, demolitions continue as UN warns West Bank at breaking point

Israeli forces have continued their crackdown in the occupied West Bank , arresting at least 23 Palestinians and demolishing several homes, as the United Nations warned that the situation in the territory was at a “breaking point”.

The arrests and demolitions on Tuesday came as dozens of Israeli settlers continued raids on Palestinian villages, including one in Khirbet ar-Ras al-Ahmar, where a water pipeline was destroyed.

According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, those detained included two children, one of whom had a disability, as well as a man who was taken while he was grazing his livestock in al-Hadidiyah in the northern Jordan Valley.

At least 11 others were arrested in the Jenin governorate, while five were detained in the Bethlehem area.

In the village of Tal , southwest of Nablus, Israeli forces demolished the family home of Farouq Ramadan, one of four Palestinians killed during a confrontation with Israeli settlers on July 24. Two Israelis were also killed in the incident.

Israel maintains a policy of demolishing the homes belonging to relatives of Palestinians involved in attacks against Israelis, an approach human rights groups have condemned as collective punishment.

Near Yatta in the Hebron governorate, Israeli forces also demolished the home of Ibrahim Mifleh al-Atimin and filled in a water well, displacing nine members of his family, according to Wafa.

Israeli soldiers demolished 12 commercial warehouses in the village of Anza and bulldozed an agricultural facility in Yarza, east of Tubas. In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, they issued demolition notices for the Khallat al-Dabaa school, as well as several homes and agricultural structures.