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Adi Ronen Argov3 min read

Saturday, April 19, 2025 – The West Bank

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (89th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (83rd consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (70th consecutive day), Nablus, Al Ein refugee camp, Al Fawwar refugee camp, Sa'ir. During the day they raided Kafr Dan, Silat al-Harithiya, Danaba suburb of Tulkarm, Meithalun, Al Nassariya, Beit Ummar, Iraq Burin, Qaffin, Beit Furik, Beit Dajan. At least 14 Palestinians were arrested. 60 were detained.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Al Fawwar refugee camp – night raid with bulldozers and lighting bombs fired. 60 camp residents were detained. After investigation, 52 were released.

2. Tulkarm – night raid and shots fired at vehicles, one person wounded. Checkpoint erected. At the camp, a bulldozer began destroying a schoolyard and blocking it with dirt dykes. Barbed wire fences placed at entrance to the camp.

3. Nur Shams – raid with libve fire.

4. The Old City, East Jerusalem – Holy Saturday prior to Easter Sunday. The police limits entry of people praying in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre compound and violently pushes them off.

5. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – raid and confrontations. A 13-year-old girl wounded by live fire.

6. Qaffin, north of Tulkarm – raid with teargas.

Palestinian attacks against colonists

1. Ari'el colony – shots fired at Israeli vehicle.

Colonist attacks against Palestinians

1. Ras Al Ein (Al-Auja), north of Jericho – colonists graze their flocks inside the community compound.

2. Aqraba, south-east of Nablus – colonists vandalize a water pump at Beit Yanoun.

3. Beit Dajan, east of Nablus – colonists back up by army deny teams sent by the village council to install an electricity cable and confiscated 2 trucks.

4. Susya, Masafer Yatta – A group of colonists attacked farmers and tried to set a crop on fire. Later continued to a house, threatened, threw stones and graze flocks on farmland.

5. Beit Furik, east of Nablus – at the time the army raids the village, the colonists kidnap 3 children, tie them up and throw them outside the town.

6. Qawawis, Masafer Yatta – a man wearing army garb riding an ATV detains 3 farmers for hours.

7. Khirbet Ad Deir, northern Palestinian Jordan Valley – colonists raid and steal water pumps and vandalize solar panels.


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