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Monday, December 22, 2025 – The West Bank

  • Writer: Adi Ronen Argov
    Adi Ronen Argov
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 4 min read

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (344th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (338th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (324th consecutive day), Nablus, Silat al-Harithiya, Bethlehem, Tuqu'a, Jifna, Jalazone refugee camp, Ni'lin, Silat ad-Dhahr, Arraba. During the day they raided Khirbat 'Abu Falah, Al-Mughayyir, Kafr Ni'ma, Al-Ram, Sebastia, Beit Dajan, Bizzariya, Beit Furik, Beit Iba, Shuweika, Beita, Kobar, Hableh, Kardala, Madama, Silwad, Al-Masara, Tubas, Turmus Ayya. At least 16 were arrested, a journalist and a minor among them.

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Army attacks on Palestinians

1. Tuqu'a, south-east of Bethlehem – confrontations.

2. Silat ad-Dhahr, south of Jenin – raid. Turning a house into a military post, detentions, field interrogations and arrests.

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3. Arraba, south-west of Jenin – detentions, field interrogations and arrests.

4. Tulkarm – detentions, field interrogations and arrests.

5. Tubas – confrontations before midnight.

6. Silwan, East Jerusalem - confrontations during demolition of a residential building (see report below). Arrests.

7. Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem - confrontations, 1 person injured.

8. Kobar, north of Ramallah - confrontations.

9. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah - confrontations, shooting at school students.

10. Silwad, north-east of Ramallah - confrontations, teargas.

11. Nablus - raid on a house and arrest of an ex-prisoner, damage to contents and property.


12. Beit Dajan, east of Nablus - confrontations, teargas and stun grenades.

13. Beit Furik, east of Nablus - confrontations, live fire. Damage to a vehicle.

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14. Beita, south of Nablus - confrontations.

15. Madama, south of Nablus - confrontations, teargas and stun grenades. The army is forcing business owners and shopkeepers to close.

16. Beit Iba, north-west of Nablus - confrontations, teargas and stun grenades. Light bomb ignites a fire in a house.

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17. Bizzariya, north-west of Nablus - confrontations, teargas and stun grenades.

18. Sebastia, north-west of Nablus - confrontations.


Palestinian attacks on the army

1. Tubas - shooting at Israeli army forces who entered the town shortly before midnight.


Demolitions and blockades

1. Al Asakra, east of Bethlehem - demolition orders issued for several houses.

2. Between Al-Yamun and Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin - extensive felling of olive trees.


3. Silwan, East Jerusalem - demolition of a residential building in Wadi Qadoum hours before a legal hearing on the possibility of delaying the demolition. The 13 families living in the building were forced to leave at short notice without being able to clear their belongings.


4. Turmus Ayya, north-east of Ramallah - continuous felling of olive trees. The iron gate at the entrance to the village was closed shortly before midnight.


Palestinian attacks on colonists

1. Umm Salamuna, south of Bethlehem - stones thrown at a bus, damage.


Colonist attacks on Palestinians

1. Beit Rahal, south of Bethlehem - stones thrown at vehicles.


2. Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem - shooting at a Palestinian vehicle and throwing stones at another one.

3. Sa'ir, north of Hebron - provocations.

4. Beit Ummar, north of Hebron - confrontations between colonists who entered the town and residents.

5. Halhul, north of Hebron - colonists attacked two Palestinian farmers north of the town, the army detained the farmers.

6. as-Samu, south-west of Hebron - colonists attacked a family at their home, injuring a woman and 3 children, spraying teargas, harming and killing sheep and destroying property. The injured were taken to the hospital, some of them suffer from suffocation.


7. Anata, north-east of Jerusalem - colonists attack the Nahil al-Kaabneh community, east of the town. Residents confront them. 3 Palestinians and 3 colonists injured.

8. Masafer Yatta - children are forced to detour on dirt and mud because colonists block off the road to school.


9. Road 60, north of Ramallah - colonists raise Israeli flags along the road in the Wadi Haramiya section near Silwad.

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10. Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus - Expansion of outpost set up on village land.

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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