Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – The West Bank
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Dec 3
- 4 min read
Raids and Arrests
During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (325th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (319th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (305th consecutive day), Beit Ummar, Silat al-Harithiya, Az-Zawiya, Surif, Beit Jala, Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, Nablus, Anza, Hebron, Qabatiya. During the day, they raided Beita, Tell, Silwan, Dura, Misilyah, Al-Bireh, Madama, Sebastia, Sarra, Meithalun, Al Far'a refugee camp, Anata, Tammun, Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya, Za'atara. Many were detained, but no official number of those arrested was reported.
‣ The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reports on dire humanitarian conditions in Gilbo'a Penitentiary, starvation and deliberate medical neglect of security prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons.
Army attacks against Palestinians
1. Misilyah, south of Jenin - raid, curfew. A soldier was recorded destroying graves in the local cemetery. An elderly man and a child were beaten by soldiers and injured. Another young man was beaten and arrested.
2. Qabatiya, south of Jenin - raid for the third consecutive day. All shops and businesses are closed and a curfew is imposed. Houses turned into military posts. Arrests, detentions and field interrogations.
Reinforcements. Helicopter gunships are circling over the town and intermittently firing machine-guns at open areas. Confrontations, teargas and stun grenades fired near the cemetery. Additional reinforcements are entering the town in the evening.
3. Beit Ummar, north of Hebron - raid on several houses. Another raid in the evening.
5. Tulkarm - random firing by soldiers, from moving vehicles, at houses on Railway Street.
6. Al-Bireh, north of Jerusalem - raid, confrontations, incendiary bombs. Road blockages and deliberate traffic disruptions.
7. Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho - raid on the home of an ex-prisoner.
8. Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya, north-west of Ramallah - drone dropping stun grenades.
9. Nablus - raid in the west side. Arrests. A 57-year-old man was beaten by soldiers and injured. Later, a raid on the center and east of the city. Forces surround the Old City, closing one of the entrances.
10. Madama, south of Nablus - raid, turning 2 houses into military posts. Detentiions and field interrogations.
Demolitions, confiscations and Blockades
‣ The Israeli army is erecting a 22 km long barrier in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley. To build the barrier, Palestinian land will be confiscated, and residential houses, apartments, greenhouses, warehouses, irrigation systems, water cisterns and farmland will be demolished. Palestinian residents were given only a few days to file objections, and the Civil Administration has already issued demolition orders to five families' buildings and greenhouses in the area between Ein Shibli and Atuf. The barrier will also completely surround the shepherd community in Khirbet Yarza.
2. Haribat an-Nabi, Masafer Yatta - demolition of a house.
3. Madama, south of Nablus - the bypass near the village was closed to all traffic, citing a suspicious object.
Colonist attacks against Palestinians
1. Al-Hathrura, east of Jerusalem - a colonist and his herd block the path of Palestinian shepherds going out to graze.
2. Ein AL-Dyouk, north of Jericho - colonists shot at a Palestinian vehicle drove by an Aqabat Jaber refugee camp resident, attacked him and stole his vehicle.
3. Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya - confrontations between colonists who entered the village and residents.
5. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah - a colonist and his herd try to block the path of a truck on the outskirts of the town. The truck driver forced the colonist to move and continued on his way, and the herd entered a nearby olive grove. Later, a group of colonists accompanied by soldiers, attack farmers on village land.
6. Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya, north-west of Ramallah - colonists attack houses.
7. Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus - confrontations between colonists trying to raise Israeli flags at the entrance to the town and local residents.
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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