Friday, August 1, 2025 – The West Bank

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (203^rd consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (197^th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (184^th consecutive day), Tubas, Raba, Zababdeh, Jalazone refugee camp, Beit Rima, Khirbet Karme, Balata refugee camp, Taffuh, Qabatiya, Huwara. During the day they raided Turmus Ayya, Burqa, Al-Aqsa, Sinjil, Aqabah, Al Fawwar refugee camp, Meithalun, Beita, Sebastia, Duma, Beit Ummar, Kafr Qallil. At least 5 Palestinians were arrested.

Huwara

‣ There is a call throughout the West Bank villages and towns to take part in protest processions after Friday prayers, in support of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and protesting their starvation.

‣ 70 women from Umm al-Khair began a hunger strike until the body of Awdah Hathaleen be released by the army and returned, and until all local inhabitants be freed from incarceration.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Raba, south-east of Jenin – raid, arrests.

2. Qabatiya, south of Jenin – raid, arrests.

3. Al Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron – raid with teargas, confrontations, one person wounded by live fire.

4. Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem – the police arrested preacher Sheikh Eyad Al Abasi and threatened him not to speak of the goings-on in the Gaza Strip during his Friday sermon. He was released later on.

5. Nablus – raid, arrests.

6. Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus – raid, arrests.

7. Duma, south-east of Nablus – confrontations with the army after colonists raided the village.

8. Beita, south of Nablus – raid, arrests.

9. Huwara, south of Nablus – house raided. Arrests. One detainee arrested at night was released in the morning.

10. Burqa, north-west of Nablus – raid, the army forces shops and businesses to close.

11. Sebastia, north-west of Nablus – confrontations.

Palestinian attacks against the army

1. Meithalun, south of Jenin – explosive charge activated against a military vehicle at the entrance to the town.

Demolitions

1. Beit Dajan, east of Nablus – wells destruction continued for the second day running.

Palestinian attacks against colonists

1. Halhul, north of Hebron – paint bottles thrown at a bus.

Colonist attacks against Palestinians

1. Al Mu'arrajat, north of Jericho – after the Israel Supreme Court ruled that the community is allowed to return to the place from which it was violently expelled by colonists, the colonists raided the locality again and set afire two buildings. In spite of the court’s ruling that the army is supposed to protect the inhabitants, the army stood by as the colonists ran rampage, and the community left its site once again.

2. Deir Jarir, north-east of Ramallah – confrontations of colonists raiding the village against the inhabitants.

3. Duma, south-east of Nablus – colonists raiding the village and confronting the inhabitants.

4. Jalud, south of Nablus – colonists tried to set a house on fire at dawn.

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Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), HRANA-Human Rights Activists News Agency, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Jordan Valley Activists (Media groups), Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, OCHA OPT, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), Ta’ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, The Washington Post, WHO, yNet, Zirat War.