Scores Detained, Widespread Raids and Settler Attacks across West Bank

November 20, 2025 News
Israeli occupation forces set fire to vehicles and a market in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via social media, file)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The detainees were severely beaten during the army raid on Beit Ummar, according to eyewitness accounts.

Israeli occupation forces have raided several towns and cities in the occupied West Bank, detaining more than 50 Palestinians, including two women. At the same time, illegal settlers targeted Palestinian families and agricultural lands in violent attacks.

Al-Jazeera Arabic reported that occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron (Al-Khalil), raided a large number of homes, turning some into military outposts, and imposed a curfew on the town’s streets.

These raids resulted in the arrest of more than 40 Palestinians from the town, the report stated. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that 56 Palestinians were detained, including two women.

According to eyewitness accounts, the detainees were severely beaten during the army raid after being held and interrogated at a sports field in the center of the town, which the occupation forces had converted into a field interrogation center.

Jenin, Nablus

Al-Jazeera’s correspondent also reported that Israeli forces raided the homes of relatives of Imran al-Atrash in Hebron and arrested several of them.

Al-Atrash participated in the car ramming and stabbing operation at the Gush Etzion junction in the southern West Bank last Tuesday, which resulted in the death of one settler and injuries to three others, one of whom is in a critical condition.

WAFA also reported that four Palestinians were detained in Israeli military incursion of the towns of Deir Samet and al-Burj, west of Hebron. The soldiers raided several homes.

Beit Ummar was declared a closed military zone and all entrances and exits sealed off, thus preventing the movement of residents.

In the Jenin governorate, Israeli occupation forces arrested several young men in the town of Qabatiya. An Israeli special unit also carried out an infiltration operation into a house in the town and arrested a young man.

In Nablus, occupation forces stormed the grounds of the local hospital and arrested a young man from the town of Beit Furik. Another Palestinian was detained in the village of Salem during a raid on his home.

Village Sealed Off

Israeli occupation forces closed the village of Zububa, west of Jenin, on Thursday, WAFA reported, citing a local official.

Ashraf Maqalda, head of the Zububa village council, said that Israeli bulldozers blocked the village’s main entrances with earth mounds. The army also erected a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Ta’anak, west of Jenin, obstructing the movement of Palestinian vehicles, the report stated.

In the city of Al-Bireh, occupation forces stormed the Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood, resulting in a vehicle catching fire in the city center after a flare fired by soldiers during the raid landed on it.

Settler Attacks

On Wednesday evening, three Palestinians from the same family were injured in an attack  by illegal settlers near the area known as Dahr al-Hawiya in the Hebron governorate.

Faisal al-Qawasmi said that a group of settlers attacked his parents and brother, resulting in multiple injuries.

WAFA reported settler attacks on the Bedouin community of Arab al-Ara’ara, east of Jaba’, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. The settlers attacked residents’ homes and set fire to tires near the houses.

From October 7, 2023, until October 5, 2025, illegal settlers carried out 7,154 attacks against Palestinians and their property, resulting in the killing  of 34 Palestinians and the displacement of 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities, WAFA reported, citing the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.

In a related development, the Israeli occupation army announced that a soldier was moderately wounded after being shot in the city of Nablus last night.

Occupation forces carried out raids in several neighborhoods in the city of Qalqilya, including the al-Qur’an neighborhood, and arrested a young man from the al-Naqqar neighborhood.

Demolition Notices

In occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation authorities delivered demolition notices to four families in Aqabat al-Khalidiya in the Old City on Wednesday, claiming their homes were “uninhabitable,” Al-Jazeera Arabic reported.

According to WAFA, Israeli authorities distributed 40 demolition and stop-work orders in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood, southeast of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governorate said 30 demolition orders were issued for buildings located outside the separation wall, despite the fact that they lie in Area A and hold official Palestinian permits.

On Thursday, another four demolition orders were distributed inside the wall in Areas A and B, in addition to six stop-work orders in Area C, WAFA reported.

(PC, AJA, WAFA)

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