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Thu 20 Nov 2025 8:12 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation arrests dozens in the West Bank and warns of demolishing homes in Jerusalem.

Several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank witnessed a wide campaign of incursions and arrests carried out by the Israeli occupation forces, coinciding with violent assaults by settlers targeting Palestinian families and agricultural lands.

In Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, a reporter reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar north of the city, raiding a large number of citizens' homes, turning some into military barracks, and preventing movement within the streets of the town.

These raids resulted in the arrest of more than 40 Palestinians from the town during the night hours.

According to eyewitnesses, the detainees were subjected to severe beating during the army's incursion after being held in the yard of a sports field in the middle of the town, which the occupation forces turned into a field interrogation and questioning center.

The reporter also stated that the occupation forces stormed the homes of the relatives of the martyr Imran Al-Atrash in the city of Hebron and arrested several of them.

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

In Hebron as well, three Palestinians from the same family were injured on Wednesday evening in an attack carried out by settlers near the area known as "Dhahr Al-Hawiya" adjacent to the bypass road number 60.

Citizen Faisal Al-Qawasmi stated that a group of settlers attacked his father, mother, and brother, causing them head injuries and multiple bruises, and the injured were transferred to the hospital for treatment.

In Jenin Governorate, the Israeli occupation forces arrested several young men in the town of Qabatiya, and a special Israeli unit carried out an infiltration operation into one of the houses in the town and arrested a young man.

In Nablus, the occupation forces stormed the courtyard of the National Hospital, and also arrested a young man from the town of Beit Furik, in addition to another arrest from the village of Salem during a raid on his home.

The town of Beit Furik also witnessed a series of raids on citizens' homes in the morning.

In the city of Al-Bireh, the occupation forces stormed the Um Al-Sharayet neighborhood, leading to a vehicle catching fire in the middle of the city after a flare bomb was dropped by the soldiers during the incursion.

The occupation forces carried out a campaign of raids in several neighborhoods in the city of Qalqilya, including the Al-Qar'an neighborhood, and arrested a young man from the Al-Naqar neighborhood.

In occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation authorities delivered, yesterday Wednesday, demolition notices for the homes of four families in Aqbat Al-Khalidiya in the Old City, under the pretext that they are "unfit for habitation."

The Palestinian news agency reported that the families were surprised by the decisions despite having lived there for nearly six decades.

The families clarified that the occupation authorities have refused for years to grant them permits to renovate the buildings or improve their structure, and prevent any necessary maintenance work to preserve their safety, which led to their deterioration and later exploitation as a pretext for demolition.

According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers committed 7,154 assaults in the West Bank during the two years of the Israeli genocide war on Gaza, resulting in the death of 33 Palestinians and the displacement of 33 residential communities until October 5 of last month.

Data indicates that the combined assaults of the occupation army and settlers led to the death of 1,076 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,760, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,500 Palestinians until Tuesday.

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