PFLP Calls for Resistance after Israeli Forces Kill Two Children in Hebron

Two Palestinian children were shot and killed by Israeli forces on Thursday in the town of Beit Ummar. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The PFLP has called for broad resistance in the West Bank amid a surge in Israeli military raids, arrests, and settler attacks following the killing of two Palestinian children in Hebron.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called for widespread resistance with Israeli forces and illegal Jewish settlers across the occupied West Bank, following the killing of two Palestinian children in Hebron (Al-Khalil).

In its statement, the PFLP described the incident as another crime added to what it called a systematic escalation aimed at annexing Palestinian land and displacing its population.

The group warned that expanding settler attacks represent one of the most dangerous dimensions of the current reality, arguing that Israeli policies are transforming the West Bank into a “scorched earth” environment designed to impose new settlement facts on the ground.

Hours after the statement, illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles near the Qadumim roundabout east of Qalqilya, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported. Stones were thrown at passing cars, with no injuries confirmed.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces stormed the old Askar refugee camp east of Nablus and carried out widespread raids across several West Bank cities and towns.

Assaults, Detentions, and Withheld Bodies

Palestinian sources reported that Israeli forces assaulted a child during a raid in the town of Mithlon, south of Jenin.

Multiple arrests were carried out overnight, including several youths detained in Silwad, east of Ramallah; four Palestinians in Azzun, near Qalqilya; and another young man arrested in Tubas in the northern West Bank.

Separately, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Israeli authorities continue to withhold the bodies of the two children killed in Beit Ummar on Thursday.

Israeli forces claimed the boys attempted to throw Molotov cocktails near the illegal settlement of Karmei Tzur, built on the town’s land.

On Thursday night, three Palestinians, including a child, were wounded after Israeli forces opened fire in Al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, Israeli army and settler attacks in the West Bank have resulted in the killing of at least 1,070 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 10,700 others, and more than 20,500 arrests.

(PC, AJA, Palestinian Media)