Friday, February 28, 2025 – The West Bank
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Feb 28
- 3 min read
First night of the Ramadan month.
Raids and arrests
During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (39th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (32nd consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (20th consecutive day), Salfit, Deir Qaddis, Issawiya, Ya'bad, Qabalan, Yatma, Nablus, Yatta. During the day they raided Fahma, Sa'ir, Beita, Sebastia, Kafr Qaddum, Al-Arroub refugee camp, Azzun, Rujeib, Beit Furik, Qaryut, Dura, Dura el-Kari'a, Burqa, Birzeit, Bruqin, Idna. 13 persons were arrested or detained for many hours.
‣ The detention of female journalist Baian Al Jaba was prolonged, while she is nine-months pregnant and mother of two small children.
Army attacks against Palestinians
1. Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm – 20th consecutive day. During the day and night live fire and setting houses on fire at Al Manshiya neighborhood. At night (first Ramadan night), families expelled under armed threats and shots in the air.
2. Beita, south of Nablus – raid to suppres the weekly protest procession with teargas and stun grenades.
3. Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya – confrontations while weekly protest procession is suppressed.
4. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – raid and confrontations.
5. Jenin refugee camp – 39th consecutive day. Entrance to camp blocked.
6. Rantis, north-west of Ramallah – Hagar Sheizaf of Haaretz daily newspaper exposed Israeli soldiers of their own will expelled Palestinian families from their homes near Beit Arye colony.
8. Dura, south-west of Hebron – confrontations during which an inhabitant is shot and wounded and dragged on the road to be arrested.
10. Dura el-Kari'a, north-east of Ramallah – raid with teargas into houses, confrontations. Suffocations.
Palestinian attacks against colonists
Colonist attacks against Palestinians
1. Ras Al Ein, north of Jericho – colonists steal 15 sheep and kill others.
2. Huwara, Masafer Yatta – colonists graze on Palestinian-owned land. The Palestinian owners confront them. The army arrests 3 Palestinians based on colonist fake complaints.
3. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – colonists uproot and vandalize olive trees west of town.
4. Jwaya, Masafer Yatta – armed colonists attack houses while shooting, trying to steal sheep. The inhabitants confront them. The army charges at Palestinians, throwing stun grenades.
5. Khalat Khader, northern Palestinian Jordan Valley – after looting the tents that remained from the expelled community, today a bulldozer destroyed what was left.
Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), 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, Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, WHO.
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