Jerusalem-January 29, 2023

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In a development of events, the Israeli army arrested, on Sunday, 60 Palestinians during a wide campaign in Jerusalem and cities in the West Bank.

The Israeli army has raised its alert and alert status to the highest level.

On Saturday evening, the Israeli government announced a number of punitive measures against Palestinians, in a move it considers in response to an operation in Jerusalem that resulted in the deaths of two Israelis, while the attack on a synagogue on Friday left 7 dead.

In the context, an 18-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by the Israeli army at dawn on Sunday.

In the same context, settlers set fire last night to a house in the village of turmusaya, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Awad Abu Samra told the official Palestinian agency WAFA, that a number of settlers under the protection of the Israeli army closed Al-Sahl Street in the village and burned a car, and the fire spread to the neighboring house belonging to The Citizen Odeh Shehadeh Jabara, and the settlers also broke another car.

In a related context, the official of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan daghlis, said on Sunday that settlers committed 144 attacks last night south of Nablus, according to the official Wafa news agency.

Daghlis explained that the settlers smashed 120 vehicles by throwing stones at them on the roads south of Nablus, burned six vehicles completely in the town of Majdal Bani Fadel, and attacked 22 shops in Hawara in the north of the West Bank.

According to local sources, an Israeli army force broke into the young man's house in the village of qusayn, west of Nablus, after announcing his death and interrogated his relatives.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned in the strongest terms "the actions taken by the Israeli cabinet against unarmed civilian Jerusalemite citizens".

The foreign ministry added that this comes in the context of "gross violations of international law, the Geneva Conventions and collective sanctions as an extension of the occupation policy aimed at hitting the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem and emptying it of its indigenous citizens".

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant instructed the ministry's legal authorities to prepare to take action against the families of the perpetrators.

In the same vein, the Israeli minister of internal security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, asked the Jerusalem municipality for a list of all unauthorized houses to begin their demolition immediately.

Two operations against Israelis were carried out on Friday and Saturday, about a day after 10 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank.

The Hebrew Channel "12" reported that there was an unusual confrontation on Saturday between the minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the judicial adviser to the government.

Ben-Ghafir demanded that the House of the perpetrator of the operation be closed immediately, but the counselor asked to look into the matter first, referring to its possible repercussions.

The channel quoted Energy Minister Yisrael Katz as saying,"Today I will present a proposal to immediately close the homes of the perpetrators of the attacks until they are completely demolished later, and to deport their families from Jerusalem to the West Bank, we must create a clear deterrent and impose a high price on terrorism and its supporters.