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Sunday, January 4, 2026 – The West Bank

  • Writer: Adi Ronen Argov
    Adi Ronen Argov
  • Jan 4
  • 3 min read

Raids and Arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (357th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (351st consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (337th consecutive day), Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, Nablus, Balata refugee camp, Izbat Abu Salman, Qira, Hableh, Al-Bireh, Beit Iba, Ramallah, Dura. During the day, they raided Za'atara, ad-Dhahiriya, Madama, Al-Mughayyir, Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, Al-Ram, Sebastia, Beitunia, Aqraba, Qalqilya, Jalbun, al-Majd, Qabatiya, Azzun, Awarta. At least 11 Palestinians were arrested.

Balata refugee camp


Army attacks on Palestinians

1. Dura, south of Hebron – raid on a house, arrest, confiscation of a personal computer and security cameras.

2. al-Majd, south of Hebron – raid with live fire.

3. Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem – a young man was shot in the leg while trying to cross the Separation Wall and reach his workplace in Jerusalem. In a separate incident, two others were injured in the evening near the wall.


4. Azzun, east of Qalqilya – a 14-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man were injured by army gunfire east of the village.

5. Hableh, south of Qalqilya – raid, live fire.

6. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah – confrontations, arrests.


7. Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus – raid, tearing pictures of martyrs from the walls.

8. Madama, south of Nablus – raid, turning a house into a military post and a center for field interrogations. The occupants were expelled.


Palestinian attacks on colonists

1. Hizma, north of Jerusalem – stones thrown, vehicle damaged.

2. Birzeit, north of Ramallah – a colonist was injured in a car-ramming attack, the driver fled and a chase is underway. The army is blocking the entrances to the nearby city of Ramallah.



Colonist attacks on Palestinians

1. Al Maniya, north of Hebron – colonists graze their herds on cultivated plots of land outside the village.

2. Mukhmas, north-east of Jerusalem – colonists graze their herds between the houses of the Bedouin community of Khalat al-Sidra, east of the village.


3. Kufr al-Dik, west of Salfit – colonists attack a vehicle and its passengers.

4. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – confrontations between colonists and residents on the outskirts of the village.

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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