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Israeli forces and settlers have carried out a series of raids, arrests and attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, August 7, according to the Wafa news agency.Wafa said three Palestinians were injured after being beaten by settlers in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus. In Abu Nujaym, southeast of Bethlehem, settlers opened fire, injuring a Palestinian, before attacking an ambulance that arrived to help him and spraying its crew with pepper spray.Israeli forces also arrested a 13-year-old boy after raiding his family home in Anza, south of Jenin, while another Palestinian was beaten and arrested during a raid on Beit Furik, east of Nablus.Settlers also attacked Palestinian homes and communities in the northern Jordan Valley and near Ramallah, while Israeli forces set up checkpoints, closed roads and carried out raids in Bethlehem, Jenin, Qalqilya, Tubas and other areas, Wafa reported.Violence in the occupied West Bank has intensified sharply during 2026. By mid-July, about 850 Palestinians had been injured in settler-related attacks since the start of the year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with settler violence accounting for more than half of Palestinian injuries in the West Bank.An armed Israeli settler stands on a hillside overlooking the Palestinian town of Tell, in the occupied West Bank, Friday, July 31, 2026. [File: Majdi Mohammed/AP]