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SvennoJ on 10 August 2025
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Israel has made more than 18,500 West Bank arrests since October 7, 2023: Prisoner’s Society

Israeli forces made 662 arrests during raids in the occupied West Bank last month, reports the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Among those detained were 39 minors and 12 women, it said.

Those arrests brought the total number of arrests since the Gaza war broke out to more than 18,500, with more than 1,500 minors and 570 women apprehended, according to its tally. Those figures do not include thousands of people estimated to have been detained in Gaza, said the Prisoner’s Society.


Israeli rights group releases footage showing settler shooting activist Awdah Hathaleen

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released a video showing settler Yinon Levi shooting and killing Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen. The footage was filmed by Hathaleen himself.

Levi was released days after killing the 31-year-old activist and was later seen returning to the scene of the crime at the Umm al-Kheir community centre in the occupied West Bank.

Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians across the territory are being recorded on a nearly daily basis. The settlers are often backed by Israeli soldiers.


Israeli settlers launch more attacks as soldiers make arrests in West Bank

Violent Israeli settlers have launched several more attacks across the occupied West Bank in the past several hours, including in the town of az-Zawiya, west of Salfit.

They set fire to an agricultural barn with equipment and tools inside, and burned eight olive trees while destroying a well used for collecting rainwater, according to local sources who spoke with Wafa news agency.

In the village of Shallalat al-Auja, north of Jericho, settlers established a new illegal outpost after bringing in construction tools, and seizing property owned by a Palestinian family that was previously displaced from the area.

In the Bedouin desert located south of Hebron, members of settler organisation Regavim posted leaflets on the walls of Bat al-Zweidin Secondary School, calling on the Israeli government to demolish it. The leaflets argued that keeping the school would encourage Palestinians to build in the area and remain there.

Translation: The occupation police set up a checkpoint to issue violations to vehicles in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood of Silwan town.