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SvennoJ on 08 November 2025
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Israeli troops carry out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have carried out a series of raids and assaults across the West Bank this evening, arresting a 13-year-old boy, injuring a man, and firing tear gas at Palestinian worshippers, the Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting.

In the town of Yabad, near Jenin, soldiers arrested Rakan Amarna, 13, after beating him while he was walking in the street, local sources told Wafa. Israeli forces have been raiding the town since early this morning, turning several homes into military posts and closing side roads, residents said.

Separately, in ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot in the leg near Israel’s separation wall and transferred to a medical facility in Ramallah, Wafa said.

Meanwhile, in Salem, a village east of Nablus, dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired gas canisters at worshippers performing evening prayers at the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Mosque. Soldiers also set up a military checkpoint at the village entrance and searched vehicles.

Earlier, Israeli troops also raided the village of Immatin, east of Qalqilya, and patrolled its streets. No arrests were reported.


Palestinian man dies after being shot by Israeli forces near Tubas

We have an update on the Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that Abdel Rahman Darawsha died of his wounds after the Israeli army opened fire in Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas.

“Darawsha was struck by bullets and rushed by a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance to Tubas Governmental Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead due to the severity of his injuries,” the Wafa news agency reported.


Record number of Palestinians killed in West Bank since October 7, 2023

We earlier reported on the killing of Abdel Rahman Darawsha, who died of his wounds after Israeli forces opened fire in the Far’a refugee camp. Darawsha is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupied West Bank amid a surge in Israeli settler and military violence in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza. Here’s what we know:

  • The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory said in a recent report that at least 1,001 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the area, including occupied East Jerusalem, since October 7, 2023 – the highest toll recorded in two decades.
  • One in five of those killed was a child, it said. The office also said that 43 percent of all Palestinians killed in the West Bank over the past two decades were killed in just the past year.
  • The report also found that 55 percent of the Palestinian victims hit by live fire were shot in the head or upper body, and that in more than 200 cases, Israeli forces blocked or delayed medical teams from reaching the wounded.
  • The Israeli military has carried out 108 air strikes in the West Bank, mostly on refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, Tubas, and Nablus, killing 445 Palestinians and displacing up to 40,000 people in large-scale, unprecedented incursions.
  • Israeli settler violence also has reached unprecedented levels, resulting in dozens of Palestinian deaths, with armed settlers often attacking alongside Israeli soldiers, and doing so with total impunity.
  • The attacks come as Netanyahu’s far-right government continues a policy of de facto annexation and illegal settlement expansion across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.