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SvennoJ on 12 February 2025
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More arrests in occupied West Bank

We have reported earlier that Israeli forces arrested two women from their homes in the city of Tulkarem and carried out “large-scale” arrests in the Arroub refugee camp, near the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

Since then, the Wafa news agency citing local sources reported a string of arrests, including:

  • Four people in the town of Abwein, north of Ramallah.
  • One in the village of al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah.
  • One more in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.
  • Two brothers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
  • One in the eastern area of Nablus.
  • One in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.

The Palestinian Information Center also reported on the arrests in Abwein, saying Israeli forces abused a number of Palestinians during their raid in the town.


Israeli army shoots and injures Palestinian in occupied West bank’s ad-Dhahiriya city

Amid ongoing Israeli military attacks on several areas of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a young Palestinian man has been wounded by a live bullet in the city of ad-Dhahiriya.

Local and security sources quoted by the Wafa news agency said Israeli soldiers raided homes, detained a number of people and conducted field interrogations. The soldiers fired bullets, sound bombs and toxic gas, which led to a 25-year-old being shot in the foot and taken to hospital, Wafa said.

Israeli arrests and attacks are continuing in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron, where at least one building was demolished by Israeli forces.


Armed clashes in Nur Shams and Arroub camps in West Bank

Palestinian fighters are engaged in confrontations with invading Israeli forces in the two refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.

Videos published by local outlets out of the Nur Shams camp show explosive devices and sound bombs being deployed in the area while heavy gunfire rings out. Earlier, Israeli forces used loudspeakers to warn residents of the camp to leave.

Confrontations have also erupted in the Arroub camp, after Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles entered various neighbourhoods, detaining a large number of people and conducting interrogations.

Israeli forces distributed threatening leaflets to the citizens in Arroub and fired bullets and tear gas canisters at residential homes, although no casualties have been reported, according to the Wafa news agency.


Israeli forces storm more towns in West Bank, assault students

In addition to large-scale military operations in refugee camps and cities in the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers are launching a series of smaller attacks. Here are some of the latest developments as reported by the official Wafa agency:

  • Israeli soldiers assaulted three students near a school in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, causing bruises.
  • A number of students suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli forces used tear gas and sound bombs on them in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.
  • Israeli special forces stormed Aqqaba town, north of Tubas, and surrounded a house.
  • Accompanied by bulldozers and heavy machinery, Israeli forces damaged agricultural land and demolished a retaining wall in Funduq village, east of Qalqilya.
  • Homes were raided after soldiers stormed the town of al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem.
  • A UN delegation visited the Balata camp east of Nablus to assess damage and the humanitarian situation.


Palestinian prisoner reports torture in Israeli detention

A report from the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee and the Prisoner’s Society has cited the lawyer of a Palestinian detainee who said he had been subjected to severe torture in Israeli detention. It comes after a group of lawyers visited 18 political prisoners in Sde Teiman and Naqab prisons in February.

The lawyer provided the following account by the prisoner after their first visit since detention:

  • Israeli forces arrested me while passing from the north to south Gaza on the designated road and beat me severely.
  • The soldiers forced me to take off my clothes and wear white garments, along with eight others, all left for hours in the cold without food or water.
  • I was transferred to a nearby house and I was beaten again brutally while tied up, fracturing both my hands and leaving me without treatment.
  • They transported us in a truck after that, and I remained in the freezing cold throughout the night with several others.
  • I was eventually taken to hospital because my injuries were clearly visible and swollen. I was handcuffed and blindfolded the entire time.
  • I only learned where I was being held through the visiting lawyer.