Wednesday, August 27, 2025 – The West Bank

Adi Ronen Argov
Aug 26
3 min read

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (229^th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (223^rd consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (210^th consecutive day), Sa'ir, Shuweika, Qalqas, Nablus, Qusin, Hebron, Tuqu'a, Bethlehem, Dheisheh refugee camp, Surif, Birzeit, Kufr al-Dik, Jalazone refugee camp, Kafr Thulth. During the day they raided Sebastia, Burqin, Al-Bireh, Yatta, Far'ata, Qalqilya. No number of arrests was reported. Event count mentioned at least 13 Palestinians arrested, 2 of them minors.

‣ A day of protest to return bodies of martyrs held by Israel. The Israeli army holds on to 728 bodies, some of them since the 1960s and 1970s, 469 of them since the policy renewed in 2015. Of these:

◦ 256 are buried in numbered graves;

◦ 67 are of children;

◦ 85 are of prisoners and detainees who died in incarceration facilities;

◦ 10 are of women.

‣ The numbers specified above do not include more than 1,500 bodies of Gazans who, according to Israeli sources, are held in Sdeh Teiman camp.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Bethlehem – raid and arrests.

2. Dheisheh refugee camp, south-west of Bethlehem – raid and arrests.

3. Tuqu'a, south of Bethlehem – raid and arrests, 4 Palestinians arrested.

4. Burqin, west of Jenin – raid and search of shops and at the home of a released prisoner.

5. Yatta, south of Hebron – raid, vehicles confiscated.

6. Tulkarm – raid in city center of a firm for currency exchange, cash and contents confiscated.

7. Shuweika, north of Tulkarm – arrest of the mother of a wanted man in order for him to turn himself in.

8. Kufr al-Dik, west of Salfit – raid, arrests.

9. Birzeit, north of Ramallah – a military vehicle tries to hit a private Palestinian car.

10. Al-Bireh, east of Ramallah – confrontations, live fire.

11. Nablus – night raid of the Old City and eastern market area. Inhabitants evacuated from their homes in the Old City. Confrontations at dawn, tire burnings. In the morning – auxiliary forces, checkpoints erected, traffic stopped in several areas and neighborhoods.

Confrontations throughout the city. Snipers on the roof tops. Journalists attacked. Live fire and teargas. Ambulances and medical aid denied. 4 persons wounded. by live fire, about 25 persons wounded by suffocation, journalists among them.

Arrests, among them a wounded person and a minor. In the afternoon, confrontations spread to Balata refugee camp in the eastern part of town, where forces fire teargas and throw stun grenades. They retreat from the city at dusk, after 16 hours.

12. Qusin, west of Nablus – night raid and arrests.

13. Sebastia, north-west of Nablus – raid, curfew.