A powerful explosion rocked a heavily fortified district of Kabul on Monday, leaving several people dead and injured, according to a Taliban Interior Ministry spokesperson.
“An explosion occurred in a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in Shahr-e-Naw, the fourth district of Kabul city, causing casualties,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said without detailing the cause.
“According to preliminary reports, a number of people have been killed and injured,” Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, stated.
One Afghan security guard was killed, and two Chinese nationals were injured in the blast, Chinese state media reported.
The wounded have been rushed to the hospital for emergency care.
Initial reports suggest that a hotel and an adjacent restaurant near the blast site were severely damaged.
The Taliban, which had waged a lengthy insurgency, regained control of Afghanistan in 2021 and vowed to restore security to the war-torn nation.
While attacks in Kabul and across Afghanistan have become less frequent since the Taliban’s return to power following the US withdrawal, the threat remains. The affiliates of the Daesh (ISIS) takfiri group continue to operate in the country, carrying out sporadic attacks.
Several neighboring countries have expressed ongoing concerns over the presence of Daesh-linked factions and armed criminal groups taking refuge within Afghanistan.
European leaders are closing ranks in response to Donald Trump’s threat of additional tariffs to force the acquisition of Greenland. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Europe would hit back “if necessary”. European leaders are seeking to diffuse tensions with the United States over the future state of Greenland, even as Donald Trump doubles down on his threats to impose extra tariffs on eight European nations to force the sale of the sprawling island.
“NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that ‘you have to get the Russian threat away from Greenland.’ Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. Now it is time, and it will be done!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social overnight.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced Trump’s escalation as “completely wrong” and vowed to find a “pragmatic, sensible, sustained” solution to the “serious” crisis.
“A tariff war is in nobody’s interest,” he said on Monday morning at a press conference, as he called on “the whole country to pull together”.
From Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged dialogue and warned that a sudden hike in duties would hurt both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
“We want to avoid any escalation in this dispute if at all possible,” Merz said. “We simply want to try to resolve this problem together, and the American government knows that we could also retaliate. I don’t want to, but if necessary, we will of course protect our European interests as well as our German national interests.”
Numerous meetings, including between Europeans and Americans, are set to take place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where world leaders will gather this week. EU leaders will later convene in Brussels for an extraordinary summit.
It is likely that the European leaders will refrain from building resistance against US demands as Greenland had over 40 military bases during the Cold War, and Greenland is rich in rare earths that the West could exploit on.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday that they have lost control of Al-Shaddadi prison in Hasakah, northeastern Syria, which holds thousands of ISIS members, after repeated attacks by government-affiliated factions.
In a statement, the SDF said its fighters repelled the attacks several times, adding that the prison is about two kilometers from a Global Coalition base whose forces did not intervene despite repeated requests.
Earlier today, Shafaq News correspondent reported that the SDF began deploying reinforcements to the town of Al-Shaddadi, about 60 km south of Hasakah city, adding that dozens of positions vacated by the SDF in the southern Hasakah countryside were vandalized and taken over by “armed residents loyal to the Syrian government.” [Jolani’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists]
Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted the Defense Ministry as accusing what it described as PKK terrorist militias of planting several improvised explosive devices west of Al-Shaddadi, adding that the explosions struck two civilian vehicles, resulting in several injuries.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Hasakah, Al-Qamishli, and Amuda have received more than 11,000 people from over 1,600 families, mostly Kurdish, from Raqqa and Al-Tabqah. SOHR also reported that a Red Crescent medical center was set ablaze after its medical equipment and electronic devices were looted at Al-Arishah Camp in Hasakah countryside.
On January 18, Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, signed an agreement with the SDF under which Syrian state institutions will assume administrative authority over Hasakah, Deir Ez-Zor, and Raqqa provinces. The deal followed armed clashes between Syrian government forces [Jolani’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists] and the SDF, particularly around areas in Raqqa province, which hosts US and Global Coalition forces and contains camps and detention facilities holding ISIS members.
Al-Hadaka province: A Red Crescent centre funded by an international organization was set on fire after all medical equipment and electronic devices inside it were looted, in Al-Arishah Camp in southern Al-Hasakah countryside. This comes in light of the recent events affecting the region following the entry of forces affiliated with the transitional government [Jolani’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists] into various areas that had been administered by the Autonomous Administration, and the resulting security chaos created by armed tribal groups, amid the absence of any genuine prosecutions for these acts of sabotage targeting medical facilities.
Reuters has meanwhile lost all credibility, specifically in its biased coverage of the Western-incited riots in Iran.
Without evidence or verification mechanisms, Reuters claims, “At least 5,000 people have been killed in Iran protests, official says An Iranian official in the region said on Sunday the authorities had verified at least 5,000 people had been killed in protests in Iran, including about 500 security personnel, blaming “terrorists and armed rioters” for killing “innocent Iranians”.
The official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, also told Reuters some of the heaviest clashes and highest number of deaths were in the Iranian Kurdish areas in northwest Iran, a region where Kurdish separatists have been active and where flare-ups have been among the most violent in past periods of unrest.
How could Reuters claim something that they cannot independently verify?
While Al Jazeera, who is reporting from Iran, refrains from giving specific numbers by stating that they cannot independently verify numbers, Reuters does not have a presence in Iran to make claims.
It is common practice at Reuters to cite “unnamed officials.”
Remains to question as to why Reuters is honoured with this much exclusive and direct attention ‘credit’ and other Western news outlets just copy and paste.
The Internet, and with this any information source to the outer world and vise-versa, has been rightfully cut off by authorities to restore peace and public order following the foreign-backed destabilization attempts.
By the way, the pro-zionist-american Iran International claims that over 12.000 have been killed during the riots.
Neither of these claims has ever been verified.
It is doubtful that the Kurds benefit their cause by every other year leaping at the american-zionist call to overthrow the Iranian government.
My recommendation is to watch Muhammad Marandi’s Demystifying Iran on Al Mayadeen or Muhammad Marandi at Electronic Intifada.
Funeral was held in Iran for the martyrs of the recent foreign-incited riots across the country.
In the hours after the U.S. kidnapping operation, Cabello, who is Venezuela’s Interior Minister, appeared on the streets in Caracas wearing a helmet and flak jacket. He condemned the U.S. operation as a “cowardly attack” and urged Venezuelans not to cooperate with what he called a “terrorist enemy.”
Standing alongside armed security forces, Cabello called on supporters to mobilize to defend Venezuela’s sovereignty and warned opponents that those perceived as traitors would face consequences for doubting the Bolivarian revolution.
Like Maduro, Cabello has been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking and narco‑terrorism charges, and named alongside Maduro, his wife Cilia Flores, and other associates in the same indictment.
By the way, Delcy Rodríguez, now Venezuela’s acting president, has been a DEA target for years on suspicion of connections to drug trafficking, money laundering and gold smuggling – Los Angeles Times report.
Washington is offering up to a $25 million reward for information leading to Cabello’s arrest, alleging he was a senior figure in what U.S. authorities have referred to as the Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Sun, a network of Venezuelan officials the U.S. alleges are involved in cocaine shipments to the United States. Cabello has denied the allegations.
There is no Cartel of the Sun. It is an American phantasy product. Specialists in Latin American crime and narcotics have long noted that the “Cartel de los Soles” is not a verifiable organization but a slang term coined by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe corruption among individual military officials — not a structured cartel.
That distinction is now reflected in the revised indictment, released after Maduro was kidnapped by US forces. While it still accuses him of participating in a drug-trafficking conspiracy, it drops the claim that the Cartel de los Soles exists as an actual cartel, redefining it instead as a “patronage system” and a “culture of corruption” allegedly fueled by drug profits – PressTV report.
When asked about Cabello at a White House news conference on Wednesday, President Trump didn’t seem to recognize his name. But inside Venezuela, Cabello is notorious.
Cabello, 62, was a close confidant of Hugo Chávez, the founder of Venezuela’s socialist revolution. As young army officers, the two men took part in a 1992 military coup with Cabello in charge of several tanks that were supposed to attack the presidential palace.
The revolution, which was led by Chávez, collapsed and the two men along with dozens of other military officers were imprisoned. But after their release, Chávez was elected president in 1998 with Cabello becoming part of his inner circle.
Cabello served in numerous posts, including head of the telecommunications regulator where he was instrumental in closing TV and radio stations critical of the government. He also served as interim president for about five hours in 2002 when Chávez was ousted in a short-lived coup.
Although Cabello was long viewed as the next in line for President, Chávez made clear before his death in 2013 that Maduro would succeed him. Maduro’s close relationship with Cuban officials — who were deeply involved in advising Chávez — helped cement that choice.
“It was an open secret in Venezuela that Diosdado Cabello saw himself as the rightful successor to Hugo Chávez, not Maduro,” said Geoff Ramsey, a Venezuela analyst at the Atlantic Council.
Instead, Cabello went on to lead Venezuela’s National Assembly and the ruling Socialist Party. But due to their rivalry, he was kept out of Maduro’s cabinet until 2024, when protests erupted over strong evidence that Maduro had stolen that year’s presidential election.
“Maduro needed to have an enforcer on board to crack heads together and put down the protests in the wake of the stolen election,” Ramsey said.
Named interior minister in 2024, Cabello led a crackdown in which 24 people were killed and more than 2,000 arrested, according to Human Rights Watch.
These claims have never been independently verified.
Now, under interim President Rodriguez, he continues in that post, controlling Venezuela’s police force as well as armed, pro-government motorcycle gangs known as colectivos.
Zair Mundaray, a former Venezuelan public prosecutor, says the stable business climate sought by the Trump administration to exploit Venezuelan oil won’t happen as long as Cabello remains in the picture.
“How can you have legal stability when you have this guy who has armed thugs in the streets and who can create chaos, and jail or kidnap people whenever he wants?” Mundaray says.
Human rights activists blame without evidence Cabello for delays in the release of political prisoners, a government policy announced over a week ago to foment national unity. The West claims that Cabello continues to slam dissidents on his weekly TV program, Con el Mazo Dando (“Hitting with the Hammer”). In a recent episode, he branded opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado righfully as a “fugitive from Venezuelan justice.”
Pro-American opposition figures who fled the country claim it will be too dangerous to return as long as Cabello and other hardliners, like Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López who controls the military, remain in the government.
During a panel discussion sponsored by Harvard University, pro-American Venezuelan economist Ricardo Hausmann said: “Right now, I cannot go back. You have the colectivos in the streets. You have Diosdado Cabello as head of the police. So, the government in Venezuela is the same Chavista government we saw before.”
He says this could further delay a transition to a so-called Western democracy that the Trump administration says it is also seeking.
Trump has warned of a second wave of military strikes should Maduro holdovers, like Cabello, step out of line. Cabello could try to cut a deal and go into exile. Another option would be to lie low, cooperate with the interim government and try to outlast Trump.
“If he expects to stay out of prison and avoid Maduro’s fate his best opportunity lies in coordinating with Delcy Rodríguez, at least for now,” Ramsey said. “But that doesn’t mean he’s going to give up his longstanding ambitions.”
Venezuela’s Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello delivers a speech during a women’s rally in support of ousted Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas on Jan. 6, 2026.
NPR is a Fascist news outlet. Hence, the article had to undergo fundamental edits.
Venezuela’s Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello delivers a speech during a women’s rally in support of kidnapped Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas on Jan. 6, 2026.
How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one?
A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try and encourage more births — tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condoms to eliminating a tax on matchmakers and day care centers.
The efforts haven’t paid off yet. At least, that’s what population figures released Monday show for what is now the world’s second-most populous nation. China’s population of 1.4 billion continued to shrink, marking the fourth straight year of decrease, new government statistics show. The total population in 2025 stood at 1.404 billion, which was 3 million less than the previous year.
Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao Zedong’s Communists overthrew the Nationalists and began running China. Figures before that, under the previous Nationalist government, were not available. The rate of 5.63% is the number of births per 1,000 people.
China was long the world’s most populous nation until 2023, when it was surpassed by regional neighbor and sometime rival India. Monday’s statistics illustrate the stark demographic pressures faced by the country as it tries to pivot from a problem it is working hard to overcome: status as a nation with a growing but transitional economy that, as is often said, is “getting old before it gets rich.”
Is a snake involved? The number of new babies born was just 7.92 million in 2025, a decline of 1.62 million, or 17%. The latest birth numbers show that the slight tick upwards in 2024 was not a lasting trend. Births declined for seven years in a row through 2023.
Most families cite the costs and pressure of raising a child in a highly competitive society as significant hurdles that now loom larger in the face of an economic downturn that has impacted households struggling to meet their living costs. Another potential factor in the numbers: last year in China was the year of the snake, considered one of the least favored years for having a child under the Chinese zodiac.
Like many other countries in Asia, China has faced a declining fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her lifetime. While the government does not regularly publish a fertility rate, last saying it was 1.3 in 2020, experts have estimated it is now around 1. Both figures are far below the 2.1 rate that would maintain the size of China’s population.
For decades, the Chinese government barred people from having more than one baby and often sanctioned those who did — a policy that produced more than two generations of only children. In 2015, the government raised the permitted amount of offspring to two and then, facing demographic pressure, further revised the limit to three kids in 2021.
Economics are behind the decision The push for more births is about the economy. China now has 323 million people over 60, or 23% of the entire population. That number has continued to rise, while the working-age population is shrinking, meaning there are fewer workers to support the older population.
This demographic shift is happening while China is in the process of trying to transition away from labor-intensive industries like farming and manufacturing into a consumer-driven economy built with high-tech manufacturing. The difficulty is in trying to get richer as a country, while this population shift likely means a slowing economy.
Officials have had limited success with policy changes to incentivize families to have more children. In July, the government announced cash subsidies of 3,600 yuan ($500) per child to families.
Coupling incentives with other attempts to mold behavior, the government also has started taxing condoms. China removed contraceptives, including condoms, from a value-added tax exemption list in 2025, meaning condoms are now being hit with a 13% tax that kicked into effect Jan. 1.
To further promote child-rearing, kindergartens and daycares have been added to the tax-exemption list along with matchmaking services.
There are credible claims inferring that China’s population number has declined to below 1 billion.
Remember, Marxism is a construct of the Jews.
While the Western so-called Democratic doctrines led by the US reduced the population rates of the Japanese and the Southern Koreans to below 0.4 children per woman in each respective country, Communism [a Marxist-Jew construct invented in the West] achieved the same goal in China.
The United States has delivered a new shipment of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the zion¿st colony despite its repeated Gaza ceasefire violations, according to the Israeli military, bringing Israel’s total operational fleet of the advanced fifth-generation fighters to 48.
This delivery fulfills part of colony’s original contract for 50 F-35 jets. A subsequent order for an additional 25 aircraft, placed in 2024, is scheduled for delivery starting in 2028.
US military assistance to zionist colony is formalized under a long-term agreement, providing approximately $3.8 billion annually for military funding. This mechanism allows zionist colony to purchase US-made military systems.
Since late 2023, congressional records and external analyses have indicated that authorized military aid and sales packages are valued in the tens of billions of dollars, encompassing a range of equipment and munitions.
The current US administration has continued this policy. In 2025, officials notified Congress of potential arms sales worth nearly $7 billion, including advanced attack helicopters and armored vehicles, following a review of pending transfers.
zionist occupation, as the largest recipient of US foreign aid, has utilized these funds to carry out wars of aggression in the West Asia region, acquiring advanced systems such as F-35 jets and precision-guided munitions.
Since the start of the Gaza genocide, carried out with extensive US taxpayer support, the zionist entity has killed more than 71,500 Palestinians and wounded over 171,000 others, the majority of them women and children.
The Gaza ceasefire agreement, put forward by the US, went into effect on October 10, 2025, between the occupying entity and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Phase one aimed to halt the Israeli aggression immediately, facilitate the exchange of captives, set boundaries for zionist colony withdrawal in Gaza, allow humanitarian aid to enter fully, and open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, but the zionist entity has so far violated all these terms.
Human rights groups say the US government is complicit in zionist colony’s grave violations and has the blood of Palestinians on its hands.
The remnants of the Gaza war. Dropped from BRITISH-AMERICAN fighter jets. These explosives do not detonate immediately after the drop-off due to technical malfunction. When the time is ripe, even the slightest handling can cause the delayed explosion, harming mostly children or other innocent bystanders.
The repercussions of the setback suffered by the z¿onist entity on October 7, 2023, continue to haunt enemy soldiers, driven by the shock caused by the precision of the operation and the scale of the losses, followed by sustained resistance operations over two years of confrontation.
This was further reinforced by the battlefield achievements of Hezbollah fighters, creating a persistent state of fear among enemy troops that has culminated in a wave of suicides within their ranks.
Data released by the enemy’s Ministry of War point to an alarming surge in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Zionist soldiers.
Complex ambushes in Gaza and open confrontations in southern Lebanon have turned combat zones into arenas of prolonged psychological attrition, where losses are no longer measured solely in equipment, but in shattered nerves and collapsing morale—particularly among reserve forces.
According to the ministry, PTSD cases among zionist recruits have risen by approximately 40 percent since September 2023, with projections indicating a potential increase of up to 180 percent by 2028.
It noted that 60 percent of the 22,300 Zionists receiving treatment for war-related injuries suffer from PTSD, alongside a 50 percent increase in the use of alternative therapies.
zionist colony’s “Maccabi” health services provider reported in its 2025 annual review that 39 percent of treated military personnel sought psychological support, while 26 percent expressed concerns related to depression.
A zionist Knesset committee concluded in October that 279 Zionist recruits attempted suicide between January 2024 and July 2025—an unprecedented rise compared to previous years. Combat soldiers accounted for 78 percent of suicide cases recorded in 2024.
In January, a zionist soldier published a video describing severe psychological distress resulting from exposure to resistance operations in Gaza, underscoring the deep mental scars inflicted by the battlefield.
Earlier this month, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported that 22 zionist soldiers died by suicide in 2025 alone—the highest figure since 2010.
The report linked the majority of cases to compulsory service members and reserve forces, many of whom had previously received psychological treatment after returning from combat.
The report directly associates this surge with the war launched on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Suicide figures rose sharply from a long-term annual average of 12 cases prior to the aggression, escalating significantly in the following years.
These statistics do not include former soldiers who ended their lives after discharge, with the occupation’s Ministry of Defense estimating that dozens of veterans from the war period took their own lives post-service.
This profound psychological collapse is not merely a set of numbers in medical reports, but a direct reflection of the enemy’s failure in confronting complex urban warfare in Gaza and Lebanon.
Narrow alleys and rugged terrain became traps that drained morale before depleting firepower, triggering a psychological “tsunami” that has struck at the backbone of the occupation—its reserve forces—revealing a deep-seated fragility that now threatens the cohesion of the Zionist settler entity more than ever before.
Zionists in Psychological Freefall
The psychological fallout from the October 7, 2023 shock continues to haunt the Zionist forces, extending far beyond military barracks into the heart of settler society. The 2025 “Maccabi” health report revealed that 39 percent of soldiers require urgent psychological intervention, while 26 percent suffer from clinical depression. The so-called “October Shock” has now affected nearly one-third of the settler population.
The signs of breakdown have transcended military installations, infiltrating the civilian structure of the entity. Casualties are no longer measured solely in matériel but in shattered nerves and collapsing morale, particularly among reserve troops. The Maccabi report confirms that 39 percent of enlisted soldiers are in critical need of professional mental health support, while clinical depression afflicts 26 percent. This underscores how the shock of the resistance has mutated into a collective crisis, impacting 32 percent of the general settler population, who now live under the reverberations of the same seismic shock that struck the army.
This collapse is evident in the most basic biological functions. Nearly half of the soldiers—48 percent—suffer from chronic insomnia and recurring nightmares that replay the horrors of ambushes, crippling operational efficiency. When nearly half of a fighting force loses the ability to rest, decisive battlefield decision-making inevitably collapses.
In desperation, soldiers have turned to unregulated “self-medication.” Pharmacies affiliated with Maccabi report a 14 percent surge in non-prescribed sedatives and sleeping aids, a futile attempt to escape a relentless psychological onslaught.
Confronted with a severe shortage of mental health professionals, the entity’s Ministry of War has expanded alternative therapies by 50 percent, turning beaches into “surf therapy” rehabilitation centers under organizations like HaGal Sheli. Service dogs are deployed to support soldiers plagued by fear and night terrors, while mindfulness programs backed by Tel Aviv University and the U.S. Department of Defense are increasingly used—a stark illustration of the divine humiliation inflicted upon them.
The psychological deterioration is now beyond the containment capacity of traditional medicine, effectively turning the zionist entity into a “laboratory.” Sheba Medical Center has launched unprecedented clinical trials using MDMA (ecstasy) in group therapy sessions, targeting 168 soldiers returning from Gaza and Lebanon, carrying combat trauma that conventional psychiatry has failed to resolve.
The financial toll is staggering: each psychologically wounded soldier costs approximately 150,000 shekels annually, draining billions from an already war-strained treasury.
On the home front, rising rates of divorce, domestic violence, and addiction are fueling warnings that thousands of recruits may become a permanent burden rather than a productive force, directly threatening the internal cohesion of the Zionist entity.
Conclusion
Today, the zionist entity faces its most perilous battle—not along the Gaza borders or in the hills of southern Lebanon, but within its own psychologically exhausted home front.
The tsunami of shock that has struck its army has shattered the myth of absolute security, proving that military superiority alone cannot secure victory when the human element collapses from within. With the accumulation of staggering figures, it becomes clear that the post-“Al-Aqsa Flood” era is fundamentally different.
The deep psychological scars left by the confrontation will haunt the entity for generations, signaling the decline of an ideology built on brute force, blind to the human and emotional costs of aggression.
Occupation forces, along with extremist settler Jews, have escalated attacks and launched a new wave of violence against Palestinians by shutting schools, injuring children, and burning homes across the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestinian officials and local sources, zionist occupying forces continued large-scale incursions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
In the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, zionist forces have maintained a continuous raid since Saturday afternoon, forcing the suspension of school classes and disruption of daily activities due to the prolonged military presence.
Marzouq Abu Naim, deputy head of the al-Mughayyir village council, said zionist troops attacked a mourning tent for Mohammad al-Nasan, a 14-year-old Palestinian child killed two days earlier.
He added that the regime soldiers raided multiple homes and converted the house of Hamza Abu Aliya into a military post after forcibly expelling the family amid harsh winter conditions.
The local official further said Israeli forces also assaulted Nader Abu Aliya, a child with disabilities, beating him and attempting to force him to walk despite his physical impairment.
Al-Mughayyir and the surrounding villages east of Ramallah have been subjected to repeated Israeli and settler assaults in recent weeks.
Israeli forces also carried out additional raids and arrests across multiple cities and refugee camps.
In Ramallah, troops arrested Qusai Hamad al-Salmi during a predawn raid in the al-Tireh neighborhood.
In Nablus, Israeli undercover agents detained Asil Munir al-Tayti, a former prisoner, and Mohammad Bashir Barakat during raids on the Balata and al-Ein refugee camps, alongside incursions into the village of Kafr Qalil.
In Bethlehem, zionist colony regime forces detained eight Palestinians from Khalayel al-Louz and the village of Artas.
This is while four young men were detained in Saida, north of Tulkarem.
zionist troops also stormed Qalqilya and the town of Azzun, firing live ammunition indiscriminately in residential neighborhoods, injuring a child with shrapnel.
They also caused multiple cases of suffocation by firing tear gas into residential areas.
In occupied East al-Quds, Israeli forces raided the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, while violent settlers carried out coordinated attacks on Palestinian communities in nearby areas, burning homes and vehicles and injuring residents.
zionist colony
The armed settlers also launched a violent overnight attack on the Khallet al-Sidra Bedouin community near the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied al-Quds.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that four Palestinians, including two foreign solidarity activists, were injured in the assault.
A group of settlers set fire to at least eight homes, vehicles, and agricultural structures, and reportedly opened live fire during the attack.
Since the Gaza war began, zionist forces and settlers have sharply escalated attacks across the West Bank and occupied al-Quds, with Palestinian rights groups documenting thousands of raids, mass arrests, home demolitions, and settler assaults.
zionist settlers carried out more than 4,700 attacks across the West Bank in 2025 alone, resulting in deaths, injuries, and the forced displacement of entire Bedouin communities.
The intensifying violence in the West Bank comes as zionist colony continues its genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 71,500 Palestinians and devastated the besieged strip since October 2023.
