Friday, December 19, 2025 – The West Bank
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Dec 19, 2025
- 4 min read
Raids and Arrests
During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (341st consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (335th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (321st consecutive day), Madama, Sa'ir, Anza, Hebron, Ramallah, Shabtin, Silwad, Nablus, Jannatah, Salem. During the day, they raided Kafr Qaddum, Qibya, Ni'lin, Husan, Yatta, Deir Jarir, Qabalan, Jalazone refugee camp, Bir Nabala, Al-Mughayyir, Al-Ram, Arraba, Silat ad-Dhahr, Qabatiya, Beit Ummar, Beit Fajjar, Al-Arroub refugee camp, Tuqu'a, Meithalun, Al-Yamun, Silat al-Harithiya, Immatain, Hajjah, Bal'a, Beit Rima, Deir Ghasana, Baqat al-Hatab, Kafr Ein, Qarawat Bani Zeid, Deir al-Ghusun, Idna. No official number of detainees was given, but based on a manual count of the incidents, at least 7 were arrested, 2 minors and an elderly person among them.
Army attacks on Palestinians
2. Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem - confrontations, teargas.
3. Husan, west of Bethlehem - forces surround the mosque, block the entrances and prevent worshipers from leaving.
5. Silat ad-Dhahr, south-west of Jenin - raid supported by drones. Hamas graffiti erased from one of the walls.
7. Beit Ummar, north of Hebron - confrontations, stun grenades and teargas.
9. Dura, south of Hebron - raid on the home of an ex-prisoner who spent 17 years in an Israeli prison. He was arrested.
12. Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm and Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya - blocking off the road connecting the two villages for Palestinian vehicles, and preventing Friday prayers. The army attacked journalists who covered the events.
13. Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya - confrontations. Teargas and stun grenades.
14. Ramallah - another raid on the Al Jazeera network offices in the city center.
15. Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah - confrontations. Teargas, stun grenades and live fire. 3 persons injured by live fire.
16. Deir Jarir, north-east of Ramallah - confrontations, teargas. One person injured in the hand by live fire.
17. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah - confrontations.

20. Ni'lin, west of Ramallah - raid, forcing business owners and shopkeepers to close. confrontations, stun grenades and live fire.
24. Nablus - raid on the east of the city following a car-ramming attack carried out by colonists (see report below).

Palestinian attacks on the army
1. Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin - an improvised explosive device detonated on an army vehicle.
2. Yatta, south of Hebron - a Palestinian vehicle blocks the path of a military vehicle, which collides with it.
Confiscations and Blockades
1. Arraba, south-west of Jenin - setting up a checkpoint on the main road, and inspection of passing vehicles.

2. Ein Shibli, east of Nablus - construction of a new checkpoint on village land.
Colonist attacks on Palestinians
1. Al Maniya, north of Hebron - colonists raise Israeli flags on an empty house on the outskirts of the village.

2. Kafr Ni'ma, north-west of Ramallah - colonists place an iron gate on the road between farmlands.
3. Nablus - A young Palestinian was run over and injured by colonists who were on their way to Joseph's Tomb, on Amman Street. One of the colonists' two vehicles overturned while fleeing the scene of the attack, and the occupants of both vehicles fled on foot. Army forces entered the city following the incident.
4. Beit Furik, east of Nablus - attack on farmers with live fire. The army arrests the farmers.
Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, 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.













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