Israeli Forces Conduct Overnight Raids Across West Bank as Settlers Attack Palestinian Communities

Israeli occupation forces launched a series of overnight military raids across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, while settlers carried out coordinated attacks against Palestinian communities, homes, and agricultural land.

The latest incursion operation spanned six governorates, with Israeli forces conducting house raids, making arrests, and closing roads. Settlers simultaneously attacked residents, vandalised farmland, and targeted Palestinian property, often under the protection of the occupation forces.

Troops stormed various towns, villages, and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank throughout the night and into the early morning hours. The raids targeted communities in Nablus, Jenin, Hebron (Al-Khalil), Bethlehem, Ramallah, and occupied Jerusalem, including the villages of Al-Mughayyir, Madama, Burqa, Sebastia, Zabuba, Arabouna, and Marka, as well as the Qalandiya refugee camp and the towns of Beit Sahour, Sa’ir, Al-Shuyukh, and Kharsa.

Forces searched homes, deployed infantry units into residential areas, and expanded their military presence throughout the targeted regions. In Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, occupation forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinian youths.

Further south, Israeli forces reinforced their deployment in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, bringing in additional military vehicles and a bulldozer before sealing off the village entrance with earth mounds.

The series of military raids was accompanied by another wave of arrests. Israeli forces detained five Palestinians during raids in Burqa, northwest of Nablus. Another Palestinian was arrested in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, whilst an additional arrest was reported during a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem. These arrests are part of Israel’s ongoing campaign of near-daily detention operations throughout the occupied West Bank.