Two Murders and Wide-Spread Detaining in Continued Escalations in the West Bank
Featured image: Palestinians are detained in Jenin during an Israeli raid. Source: Quds News Network.
Two Palestinians have been murdered and many more have been detained in ongoing wide-scale raids in the West Bank this past week.
On 31st of December, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man after opening fire on his vehicle south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank amid escalating raids and arrests across the territory. The occupation forces reportedly continued to withhold his body.
Four other Palestinians were injured after occupation forces opened fire on their vehicle at the same location, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reports.
Israeli occupation troops detained 28 residents during the raid and searched dozens of homes, including on-site questioning inside one house, witnesses said.
A Palestinian youth was also shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah. The injured youth was then detained.
On Thursday, 1st of January, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man south of Nablus, and shot and injured two more.
Israeli occupation forces also detained dozens of Palestinians, mostly former prisoners, in several towns and villages in the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate early on Thursday morning, WAFA reported. A child was also detained, according to reports.
Israeli occupation forces on Thursday also detonated explosive devices inside a residential apartment in Nablus and arrested four Palestinians.
Israeli occupation soldiers were filmed detaining and intimidating a two-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian child during a curfew in Hebron’s Israeli-controlled H2 area, sparking renewed outrage over daily military practices in the occupied West Bank.
2025 was a record-breaking year for the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with Israel’s government coalition approving an unprecedented number of new settlements and housing projects.
Peace Now said plans for 41 new illegal settlements were approved in 2025, making it the most extensive single year of settlement approvals on record.
The Israeli High Planner Council just announced that they approved 126 new settlement units in Sanur outpost.
We at the Red Herald frequently cover developments of escalations in the West Bank:
