Published On 13/12/2025
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Last update: 10:54 (Mecca time)
The Israeli occupation forces continued daily raids and arrest campaigns in various areas of the occupied West Bank, while the United Nations announced the displacement of more than a thousand Palestinians since the beginning of this year in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the West Bank’s area.
The cities, towns, and camps of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem witness daily raids and incursions by the Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by confrontations, arrests, and the firing of live and rubber bullets and poisonous tear gas bombs at Palestinian youth.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces stormed “Deir Samet”, west of Hebron Governorate, where they raided the home of the prisoner Al-Awawda and arrested his mother. Local sources considered this an attempt to pressure the family to hand over the prisoner’s father.
The Israeli occupation forces arrested the mother of the martyr Ahmed Al-Awawda during the storming of the town of Deir Samet, west of Hebron, in #West_Bank#video pic.twitter.com/KRofgDlg8t
– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) December 12, 2025
In the city of Nablus in the north, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beita and fired poisonous tear gas bombs during confrontations that broke out with young men in the neighborhoods of the town.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the occupation forces raided a house and arrested a Palestinian before withdrawing from the town about an hour after the raid. The occupation forces also conducted military patrols in the Beit Iba area, west of Nablus, and deployed infantry soldiers around the area.
In Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, the occupation forces stormed the Al-Kassarat area.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces fired live bullets, stun grenades and gas bombs, raided and searched homes, and also searched an industrial facility in the area before withdrawing.
Video| Part of the storming of Al-Qaisariyya neighborhood in the old city in the center of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/x7UuE3CmaW
– Palestine Post (@PalpostN) December 12, 2025
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that a Palestinian woman was injured after the occupation forces beat her in the city of Dura in Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
Two Palestinians were also injured when the occupation forces stormed the Al-Amari camp in the city of Al-Bireh.
Palestine TV (official) reported that Israeli forces stormed the village of Shuqba, west of the city of Ramallah, and fired live bullets and tear gas, wounding a young man and transporting him for treatment to a health center in the village.
Since the start of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank have killed more than 1,092 Palestinians and wounded about 11,000 others, in addition to arresting more than 21,000 people.
Settlers attacks
In a related context, extremist settlers attacked Palestinians in the Bedouin “Khirbet Ibziq”, northeast of Tubas.
Settlers again attacked the Al-Hathura Bedouin community, near Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem. Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the settlers chased young men from the community and assaulted them.
Local sources also reported that the occupation forces stormed the community, closed its entrances, and subjected a number of residents to investigation, after they defended themselves from settler attacks.
According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority (governmental), settlers carried out 621 attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during last November, ranging from physical attacks on property.
Mass displacement
In turn, the United Nations announced, on Friday evening, the displacement of more than a thousand Palestinians since the beginning of this year in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the area of the occupied West Bank, as a result of demolitions of their homes carried out by Israel.
“Since the beginning of the year, more than a thousand people have been displaced in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the West Bank, and is an area where Israel has almost a monopoly on law enforcement, planning and construction authority,” said Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
He explained that most of the Palestinians who were displaced had their homes demolished under the pretext of not having Israeli building permits, which he described as “almost impossible” for Palestinians to obtain.
The UN spokesman noted that this level of displacement represents the “second highest annual rate” recorded since 2009.
Israel repeatedly carries out demolitions of Palestinian homes and buildings in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, claiming that they are “unlicensed.”
Official data indicate that the Israeli authorities prevent Palestinians from building or agricultural work in Area C, while it is almost impossible to obtain building permits for Palestinians there.
The Oslo II Agreement (1995) classified the West Bank into 3 areas: “A” subject to full Palestinian control, “B” subject to Israeli security, civil, and Palestinian administrative control, and “C” subject to Israeli civil, administrative, and security control.