A new wave of Israeli military raids across the West Bank underscores the deepening crackdown on Palestinian communities under occupation.
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of wide-ranging raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting multiple towns and villages, according to Palestinian media and local rights groups. The operations reportedly involved home invasions, searches, and the detention and interrogation of residents.
In the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, four Palestinians—Yazan Subh, Ahmad Naeem, Ibrahim al-Kharraz, and Abdulaziz Feqoui—were detained, the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported.
In Areeha, Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted two young men during a raid on the home of freed prisoner Ramzi Fawaz Balhan in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, leaving both in need of medical treatment.
Quatre jeunes Palestiniens arrêtés lors d’une incursion israélienne à Silwad
Les forces d’occupation israéliennes ont arrêté quatre jeunes Palestiniens après avoir pris d’assaut la ville de Silwad, située au nord-est de Ramallah.#Palestine #Cisjordanie pic.twitter.com/QdbQzMPE5s
— Palestine Internationale Broadcast (@Pbi_Fr) December 21, 2025
In Jenin’s al-Arqa village, occupation forces detained a youth and a child. In Qalqilya, homes in the al-Bireen area were raided and two vehicles were seized.
Israeli occupation forces also stormed the Old Askar refugee camp and the village of Madama in Nablus, deploying patrols throughout residential streets. Additional arrests included the detention of Hamdi Farid Hammad at a military checkpoint between Silwad and Yabrud.
Further raids were reported in Turmusaya and the villages of al-Mughayir, Abu Falah, and Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, alongside the establishment of temporary checkpoints between West Bank towns, where Palestinians were stopped, detained, and questioned.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed on Saturday by Israeli gunfire in the towns of Sila al-Harithiya and Qabatiya in the Jenin district.
Two others were wounded in Tulkarm and occupied al-Quds. Since October 7, 2023, more than 1,102 Palestinians have been killed, approximately 11,000 injured, and over 21,000 detained across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Media Center.
Israeli military executed Rayyan Abu Mu'alla, a Palestinian teenager, in Qabatiya, south of Jenin in occupied Palestine. pic.twitter.com/rBdofVTpDN
— IRNA News Agency (@IrnaEnglish) December 21, 2025
Continued Israeli Land Grab
Israeli military operations across the West Bank have become a near-daily reality, characterized by raids, detentions, and confrontations frequently carried out without clear justification.
Under Israel’s military rule, nearly three million Palestinians are subjected to a separate legal system that grants occupation authorities sweeping control over civilian life.
In parallel with these raids, Israeli occupation authorities have intensified a broad campaign of demolitions, movement restrictions, and land seizures that is accelerating the de facto annexation of Palestinian territory across the West Bank.
UN agencies and human rights organizations report a sharp rise in arbitrary detentions, home demolitions, land confiscations, and movement restrictions, including the expansion of checkpoints and road closures that severely disrupt daily life.
At the same time, settler violence against Palestinian communities has escalated, often occurring under the protection of Israeli forces and contributing directly to forced displacement.
Combined with ongoing settlement expansion and infrastructure development on seized land, these practices are increasingly described as entrenching a de facto annexation of large areas of the occupied West Bank, placing Palestinian civilian communities under sustained and escalating pressure.
(PC, Al Mayadeen, Palestinian Media)
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