The Daily File

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

Adi Ronen Argov3 min read

Saturday, August 16, 2025 – The West Bank

Killed

1. Hamdan Moussa Mohammad Abu ‘Alia, 18-years-old from Al-Mughayyir.

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp and town (218th consecutive day), Tulkarm refugee camp and town (212th consecutive day), Nur Shams refugee camp (199th consecutive day), Hableh, Beit Ummar, Kafr Dan, Bani Na'im, Beit Awa, Hebron. Jalazone refugee camp, Nablus, Al Ein refugee camp. During the day they raided Qabalan, Wadi Fukin, Bethlehem, Aqabah, Deir Abu Da'if, Khirbat 'Abu Falah, Silwad, Qusra, Atara, Al-Mughayyir, Kafr Qallil, Kafr Dan, Turmus Ayya, Birzeit, Deir Nidham, Susya, Tammun, Abu Shukheidim, Burham, Kafr Ein, Jayus, Deir Ibzi. No data on arrests.

Army attacks against Palestinians

1. Kafr Dan, west of Jenin – raid during which a house is ignited.

2. Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem – raid and taking down Palestine flags.

3. Beit Ummar, north of Hebron – Raid with live fire.

4. Beit Awa, west of Hebron – raid with teargas.

5. Deir Ibzi, East Jerusalem – a person wounded by live fire near the Separation Wall.

6. Al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah – raid with live fire, 18-year-old wounded, medical treatment denied. When he is hospitalized, his death is announced.

7. Turmus Ayya, north-east of Ramallah – raid with live fire.

8. Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus – raid with teargas. A 24-year-old pregnant woman wounded by suffocation.

9. Al Masoudia, north-west of Nablus – military force disperses a protest of land takeover with the excuse of an archeological site.

Colonial attacks against Palestinians

1. Rashayida, east of Bethlehem – raid of a tin shack inhabited by a family, threaten to ignite and kill them if they don’t leave.

2. Hebron – the weekly procession in the Old City, racist calls.

3. Halhul, north of Hebron – inhabitants attacked. A woman wounded in the head by a stone, another two bruised including a child.

4. Ras Al Ein, north of Jericho – the community members harassed again.

5. Khirbet al Fakheit, Masafer Yatta – sheep flock herded inside the community.

6. Far'ata, east of Qalqilya – a house broken into.

7. Al-Mughayyir, Turmus Ayya, Khirbat 'Abu Falah, north-west of Ramallah – attack, vehicle and farm arson, stones thrown at houses. The inhabitants confront the colonists. Several colonists wounded.

8. Umm Safa, north-west of Ramallah – a house attacked.

9. Atara, north of Ramallah – a colonist fires at houses.

10. Shavei Shomron colony, north-west of Nablus – stones thrown at Palestinian vehicles, a 5-year-old wounded in the head.


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