News – Middle East: Operations of systematic repression by the Zionist enemy intensified across the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds, with large-scale raids, live fire, mass detentions, and violent attacks carried out by settlers under direct military protection. The escalation reflects a widening campaign aimed at crushing the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.

According to Al-Masirah’s correspondent in the West Bank, Hatem Hamdan, Israeli enemy forces have conducted sweeping arrest operations since dawn, storming dozens of homes across several governorates. In Beit Ummar, north of Al-Khalil, more than 70 Palestinians were detained, taken to an open area, and subjected to interrogation accompanied by beatings and torture, amid heavy gunfire and the use of tear gas and stun grenades against residents.

In Nablus, particularly the town of Beit Furik, raids continued throughout the morning alongside violent house searches, while fierce confrontations erupted in Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Jenin, Tubas, Bethlehem, and Salfit during the enemy’s routine daily incursions.

Settler violence also surged, with coordinated attacks on farmers in the Sinjil area northeast of Ramallah, in addition to assaults in other parts of the West Bank. All attacks occurred under the full protection of the enemy army, which responds to any self-defense attempt with live fire, beatings, or immediate arrest.

Hamdan stressed that the West Bank is witnessing an escalating wave of organized Zionist terrorism, combining military raids with settler assaults in an effort to break Palestinian resilience amid tightening repression.

The occupied West Bank and Al-Quds now face an expanding campaign of collective punishment—raids, mass detentions, and settler terror—stretching from Nablus to Al-Khalil, and from Al-Quds to Tulkarm and Ramallah. Journalists have also been targeted, including the unjust sentencing of photographer Ramez Awad, in a bid to silence reporting on the ongoing crimes.

Despite the escalating brutality, continued confrontations across Palestinian towns underscore a steadfast commitment to resist the Zionist entity’s repression, reaffirming the enduring resilience of the Palestinian people.AZA