The Daily File

So that we won't say we didn't know

Adi Ronen Argov2 min read

Friday, May 2, 2025 – The West Bank

Killed

1. Omar Mustafa Abu Lil, 39-years-old from Balata refugee camp.

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (102nd consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (96th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (83rd consecutive day), Beit Ummar, Hebron. During the day they raided Balata refugee camp, Ya'bad, Beita, Al-Yamun, Usarin, Silwad, Al-Mughayyir, Al-Arroub refugee camp, Sa'ir, Salfit, Aida refugee camp, Beit Fajjar, Al Khader. No arrests except a report of 4 persons, 2 of them journalists, and dozens including women and children detained at Nur Shams refugee camp.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Jenin – 102nd consecutive day. Night raid of the UNRWA offices in town.

2. Balata refugee camp, east Nablus – raid. House surrounded. Confrontations. A girl and a man are wounded in it. The forces prevent ambulance access and arrest the wounded man. Later they report his death.

3. Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm – 83rd consecutive day. After last night’s army notification that it intends to demolish 48 houses, inhabitants try to get to their homes to eject their belongings.

The forces fire at them, arrest dozens including women and children, use live fire against journalists wounding a woman journalist. 2 others are arrested.

4. Usarin, south-east of Nablus – confrontations.

5. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah – raid with teargas.

6. Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron – confrontations.

7. Sa'ir, north-east of Hebron – confrontations.

8. Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem – raid with stun grenades and teargas at people praying at the end of Friday prayer.

Palestinian attacks against colonists

1. Al-Auja, north of Jericho – shots fired at colonist vehicle.

Colonist attacks against Palestinians

1. Al Maniya, south-east of Bethlehem – colonists backed up by army prevent farmers from planting trees on their land.

2. Road 60, south of Nablus – colonists throw stones at Palestinian vehicles.


Sources

Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War