Published On 9/11/2025
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The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it will launch military maneuvers on Monday morning in the West Bank, the Jordan Valley and other areas, adding in a statement that the maneuvers will begin in the early morning hours tomorrow and will continue for about 3 days.
The statement added that the exercise will witness active movement of security forces and military vehicles in those areas, and comes within the framework of the annual training plan to raise the readiness of the forces, as he put it.
The maneuvers come after Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir backed down a few days ago from a decision to begin reducing the number of forces in the occupied West Bank after the most extremist wing of the Israeli government protested against it.
The maneuvers are expected to simulate several scenarios, the most important of which is providing protection for Israeli settlements and dealing with any attack that might target them.
A Palestinian was injured
Meanwhile, a young Palestinian man was injured by Israeli army gunfire while trying to cross the separation wall in the town of Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported, in a statement, that a young man (21 years old) was injured by two bullets in the chest and shoulder, in the Al-Barid suburb area in Al-Ram, after he attempted to cross the separation wall, and he was taken to the hospital.
The Israeli army demolished the house of prisoner Maher Zuhair Samara, in the town of Bruqin, west of the city of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank, after storming and raiding it, while preventing citizens from approaching the area.
The mayor of Bruqin, Faed Sabra, said that Israeli forces, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed the town, surrounded the house of the prisoner in Israeli prisons, Maher Zuhair Samara, and demolished it, while preventing citizens from approaching the area.
He pointed out that the demolition was carried out under the pretext of their connection to “the perpetrator of a shooting attack near the town, Nael Samara, on the 14th of the same month,” which then led to the killing of an Israeli settler.
Occupation bulldozers demolish a house in the town of Burqin, Salfit district #Al Jazeera #video pic.twitter.com/vGXFYUlGlG
– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) November 9, 2025
The occupation forces arrested a child from the town of Ya’bad, south of Jenin, and stormed towns and villages in Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tubas, as part of what Palestinian sources described as “an organized escalation campaign targeting the West Bank coinciding with the Israeli war on Gaza.”
This comes as part of a widespread wave of Israeli escalation in the West Bank by the army and settlers, under the cover of the genocidal war it has launched against Gaza since October 7, 2023.
The attacks in the West Bank resulted in the death of at least 1,069 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,000, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 Palestinians, including 1,600 children.
New settlement outpost
Israeli settlers began establishing a new settlement outpost on the lands of the town of Anata, east of occupied Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian human rights organization.
Al-Baidar Organization (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement that the settlers began establishing the outpost near the Abu Ghalia and Al-Arara Bedouin communities east of Anata, by installing temporary rooms and laying bases for temporary homes, in addition to transporting construction materials and equipment.
The organization warned that the step may lead to the displacement of Bedouin communities northeast of Jerusalem, and limit the access of their residents to their lands and pastures on which they depend for grazing and agriculture, considering that what is happening comes within an ongoing policy to impose control over the lands and expand settlement in the region.
According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, settlers established 114 settlement outposts in the two years of the genocidal war on Gaza.