Resistance Fighters Target Israeli Forces in West Bank amid Escalating Raids

September 26, 2025 News
Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank continues. (Photo: via QNN)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli occupation forces also carried out a campaign of raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank.

The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Resistance movement, the Al-Quds Brigades, announced that its Jenin and Tulkarm battalions targeted Israeli occupation forces in the early hours of Friday, while scores of Palestinians were detained in various towns.

The attacks on Israeli forces occurred in the town of Yamoun, northwest of Jenin, and in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm, in the northern occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

According to the Tulkarm Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades, its fighters detonated an explosive device under an Israeli military bulldozer in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm, and indicated that there were confirmed casualties.

Earlier, the Jenin Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced that it had ambushed an Israeli infantry force of five soldiers during an Israeli forces’ raid into the town of Yamoun, northwest of the city of Jenin.

The movement said its fighters “were able to target the infantry forces with intense bursts of direct gunfire.”

‘Fierce Battles’

Immediately thereafter, the statement added, “the foot patrol fled and passed through the killing zone of the ambush,” and the fighters were able to detonate a directed anti-personnel explosive device of the (Sijil 2) type, which resulted in the injury of one soldier.

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The resistance fighters also detonated several pre-positioned landmines in the ambush, damaging an Israeli Namer military vehicle.

The movement said that its fighters in the Jenin Battalion were engaged in “fierce battles with enemy forces on the front lines, targeting infantry forces with heavy barrages of direct fire, depending on the requirements and circumstances on the ground.”

Several Detained

The Israeli occupation forces also carried out a campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank at dawn on Friday, including in Nablus, Qalqilya, and other areas.

According to the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, 22 Palestinians were detained during a series of raids across Nablus city, the Askar and Balata refugee camps, and the villages of Zawata and Kafr Qallil.

Ten Palestinians were detained in Nablus city, six in the Askar camp, and six in the villages of Beita, Kafr Qalil, and Zawata. During the raids, troops raided multiple homes, conducted searches, and reportedly tampered with residents’ belongings before detaining residents.

Palestinian media reported that occupation forces raided the Kishika area of ​​Nablus, where they arrested former prisoner Hosni al-Amoudi from his home. They also raided the Rafidia area of ​​the city, arresting former prisoner Amer al-Tanbour, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Qalqilya Governorate

Elsewhere, Israeli occupation forces detained eight Palestinians on Friday morning during raids across Qalqilya governorate, north of the occupied West Bank.

The army stormed the village of Hajjah east of Qalqilya, raiding several homes and detaining six residents, WAFA reported.

In addition, forces stormed Qalqilya city from its southern entrance and raided two homes before detaining two young men and causing damage to the properties.

Settler Attacks

Illegal Israeli settlers also attacked the entrance to the village of Imatin, east of Qalqilya, and closed the entrance with iron gates. Residents confronted them, forcing them to withdraw from the site, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Occupation forces later raided the village, but made no arrests. Settlers also established a new settlement outpost on land belonging to the village of Kafr Laqif, east of Qalqilya, as part of settlement expansion in the area.

Sources told Al Jazeera that settlers stormed the eastern outskirts of the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, in the West Bank, under the protection of the occupation army.

The Israeli occupation continues to escalate its raids and arrests in West Bank cities and towns, paralleling its genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip for nearly two years.

Attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank have resulted in the deaths of more than 1,046 Palestinians and the injury of more than 10,000 others since October 2023, in addition to the arrest of more than 19,000, according to official Palestinian data, cited by Al Jazeera Arabic.

(PC, AJA)

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