Saturday, April 19, 2025 – The West Bank

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (89th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (83rd consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (70th consecutive day), Nablus, Al Ein refugee camp, Al Fawwar refugee camp, Sa'ir. During the day they raided Kafr Dan, Silat al-Harithiya, Danaba suburb of Tulkarm, Meithalun, Al Nassariya, Beit Ummar, Iraq Burin, Qaffin, Beit Furik, Beit Dajan. At least 14 Palestinians were arrested. 60 were detained.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Old City, East Jerusalem

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Al Fawwar refugee camp – night raid with bulldozers and lighting bombs fired. 60 camp residents were detained. After investigation, 52 were released.

2. Tulkarm – night raid and shots fired at vehicles, one person wounded. Checkpoint erected. At the camp, a bulldozer began destroying a schoolyard and blocking it with dirt dykes. Barbed wire fences placed at entrance to the camp.

3. Nur Shams – raid with libve fire.

4. The Old City, East Jerusalem – Holy Saturday prior to Easter Sunday. The police limits entry of people praying in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre compound and violently pushes them off.

5. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – raid and confrontations. A 13-year-old girl wounded by live fire.

6. Qaffin, north of Tulkarm – raid with teargas.

Palestinian attacks against colonists

1. Ari'el colony – shots fired at Israeli vehicle.

Colonist attacks against Palestinians

1. Ras Al Ein (Al-Auja), north of Jericho – colonists graze their flocks inside the community compound.

2. Aqraba, south-east of Nablus – colonists vandalize a water pump at Beit Yanoun.

3. Beit Dajan, east of Nablus – colonists back up by army deny teams sent by the village council to install an electricity cable and confiscated 2 trucks.

4. Susya, Masafer Yatta – A group of colonists attacked farmers and tried to set a crop on fire. Later continued to a house, threatened, threw stones and graze flocks on farmland.

5. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – at the time the army raids the village, the colonists kidnap 3 children, tie them up and throw them outside the town.

6. Qawawis, Masafer Yatta – a man wearing army garb riding an ATV detains 3 farmers for hours.

7. Khirbet Ad Deir, northern Palestinian Jordan Valley – colonists raid and steal water pumps and vandalize solar panels.

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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.