Israeli raids in major occupied West Bank cities lead to arrests, injuries

More settler attacks besides instrumentality spot crossed the territory, with a Palestinian hubby and woman wounded successful the violence.

The Israeli service has carried retired raids and arrests crossed the occupied West Bank, with incidents reported successful the cities of Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah.

Multiple Palestinians were detained successful the territory connected Sunday, according to the Wafa quality agency, including a kid and a young antheral successful the municipality of Yabad.

Reports suggested that a 37-year-old antheral was besides arrested successful the municipality of Beit Fajjar, portion a 25-year-old antheral was taken into Israeli custody successful the municipality of Nilin adjacent Ramallah.

Several raids took spot successful the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate, conscionable days aft Israel launched a prolonged raid successful the country that injured astatine slightest 58 people.

Israeli soldiers were besides contiguous successful the towns of Kafr Malek, Nilin and Deir Qaddis, but did not marque immoderate arrests.

Elsewhere successful the West Bank, aggravated and continuous gunfire broke retired southbound of Hebron, arsenic shown by online videos verified by Al Jazeera.

Wafa said that 5 Palestinians, including a girl, were injured by Israeli bullets and taken to infirmary for treatment.

Israeli soldiers besides allegedly fired unrecorded ammunition successful the bluish colony of Sarra and the municipality of Sebastia, but nary injuries were reported.

Meanwhile, a settler onslaught near a Palestinian antheral and his woman with injuries successful Khallet al-Daba colony successful Masafer Yatta.

Israeli settlers besides attacked Palestinian homes successful the colony of Kisan adjacent Bethlehem.

The Wafa quality bureau reports that the settlers broke into Palestinian properties and looted them, portion receiving extortion from the Israeli army.

In the archetypal 8 months of the year, much than 1,000 Israeli settler attacks person been recorded successful the occupied West Bank that caused injuries, spot harm oregon both, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Settlers rampage connected Palestinian onshore connected a regular basis, with impunity and backed by the Israeli military.

Israeli forces and settlers person killed astatine slightest 671 Palestinians, including 129 children, crossed the portion since October 2023, according to OCHA.

An equipped settler stands adjacent Israeli troops during a play settlers’ circuit successful Hebron, successful the occupied West Bank, August 23, 2025 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

As good arsenic the Israeli raids and the settler attacks, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said that Israeli authorities had engaged successful unauthorised excavation and demolition operations astatine the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound successful Jerusalem.

“These operations deliberately people Islamic antiquities dating backmost to the Umayyad period, which basal arsenic surviving witnesses and irrefutable grounds of Muslims’ rightful assertion to the site,” the PA’s Jerusalem governorate said successful a statement.

It said that Israel intends to region the site’s Muslim past to physique a Jewish temple determination successful the future.