Tuesday, April 29, 2025 – The West Bank

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (99th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (93rd consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (80the consecutive day), Urif, Beit Ummar, Madama, Tuqu'a, Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya, Budrus, Dura, Kufr al-Dik, Balata refugee camp, Rafat, Qarawat Bani Hassan, Beit Liqya, Kharbatha al-Misbah. During the day they raided Az-Zuweidin, Husan, Qibya, Shuafat refugee camp, Battir, Tubas, Sanur, Fandaqumiya, Al Khader, Ras Khamis, Sika, Arraba, Biddu, Al-Yamun, Kafr Dan, Beita, Beit Jala, Al-Bireh, Beit Dajan, Beit Furik, Arura, Qaryut, Al Fawwar refugee camp, Kafr Malik, Rujeib, Hajjah. At least 29 Palestinians were arrested, 3 women and 4 minors among them.

‣ British-American journalist Louis Theroux has made a documentary film about the colonists of the West Bank. The film is projected by the BBC.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Dura, south-west of Hebron – raid of a reception for a released prisoner (who was on hunger strike in the past). Property vandalized, family attacked, guests dispersed, shops forced to close down.

2. Jenin – 99th consecutive day. Eastern neighborhood raided. Infrastructures destroyed. Arrests,

3. Tulkarm – 93rd consecutive day. Danaba suburb east of town raided. Bulldozers destroy the main street and infrastructures.

4. Shuafat refugee camp, north-east Jerusalem - raid with teargas.

5. Kafr Dan, west of Jenin – confrontations.

6. Beita, south of Nablus – confrontations.

7. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – teargas fired at checkpoint, confrontations in town.

8. Qaryut, south of Nablus – raid with teargas and stun grenades. Suffocations.

9. Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem – raid with stun grenades at close of school day.

Demolitions

1. Az-Zuweidin, Masafer Yatta – 2 residential structures destroyed as well as water hole and sheep pens.

2. Husan, west of Bethlehem – commercial building demolished.

3. Qibya – West of Ramallah – 2 residential buildings demolished.

4. Battir, north-west of Ramallah – House demolished.

5. Sinjil, east of Ramallah – wall erected on farmland confiscated for defense purposes, for colonist outposts erected on these lands.

6. Hares, north-west of Salfit – uprooting of olive trees continued.

7. Artas, south of Bethlehem – farmland destroyed.

Colonist attacks against Palestinians

1. Ain al-Hilweh, northern Palestinian Jordan Valley – colnists attack and vandalize structures and vehicle.

2. Qusra, south-east of Nablus – farmland destroyed, more trailers added to the two colonist outposts erected on northern and southern sides of the village.

3. Umm Safa, north-west of Ramallah – colonists gather on Jabal Al Ras where they have flattened the ground and taken it over, and wave a giant Israeli flag.

4. Ramin, east of Tulkarm – olive trees uprooted.

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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.