On the Agenda

On 26 January 2025, the Jerusalem Municipality distributed stop-work orders, which are essentially the initial stage of issuing demolition orders, for the mosque and all the houses in the Palestinian village of Khallet a-Nu’man. The municipality refers to the village, which lies in southeastern Jerusalem, as “Mazmuriyeh” after a nearby archaeological site.

On Monday, 24 March 2025, at around 6:00 P.M., two settlers set a flock of sheep to graze near homes in the village of Khirbet Susiya. Residents who noticed them alerted others in the community, and several residents gathered near the homes and reported the incident to the police.

Last night, the Israeli government violated the ceasefire, resumed the indiscriminate killing and displacement of civilians in the Gaza Strip, and chose to sacrifice the lives of Israeli hostages to advance the all-out war it has declared on the Palestinian people—backed by the US administration and for the sake of Netanyahu’s political survival.

On Sunday, 19 January 2025, around 8:00 P.M., four soldiers in a military jeep entered the western neighborhood of Sabastiya, a town northwest of Nablus. The soldiers fired two shots, and several residents went out to the street to see what was happening.

On Saturday evening, 25 January 2025, Israeli soldiers entered the village of Muthallath a-Shuhada in Jenin District in three civilian vehicles with Palestinian license plates, and took over the home of the a-Sukar family on the main street.

On Friday, 13 December 2024, around 12:30 P.M., Israeli Border Police officers entered the village of Beit ‘Awwa in a van bearing Palestinian license plates and stopped near the homes of the Masalmeh family in the village center. At the time, some members of the family were sitting in a workshop belonging to Muhammad Suliman Maslameh – his 33-year-old nephew, Muhammad Ahmad Masalmeh, who has special needs, his six-year-old grandson Hussein, and H.M., a friend of the family. The other members of the family were having lunch in their respective homes, which are adjacent to the workshop.

Since 7 October 2023, Israel has been frequently bombing refugee camps and cities in the northern West Bank. B’Tselem documented 69 airstrikes, which killed 261 people, including at least 41 minors, from that day to 8 March 2025. Some were carried out by fighter jets for the first time since the second intifada. In stark contrast, 14 people were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank in the preceding 18 years (from 2005 to 7 October 2023).

On 21 January 2025, two days after adding the West Bank to its Gaza “war objectives,” the Israeli government launched Operation Iron Wall in the northern West Bank, focusing on the refugee camps in the districts of Tulkarm, Jenin and Tubas. The operation began with a massive raid on Jenin Refugee Camp. On its first day, Israeli armed forces killed 10 camp residents, most of whom were not affiliated with armed groups.

On Monday, 7 October 2024, Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers raided Qalandia Refugee Camp and surrounded it on all sides. Around midday, clashes erupted in the area of the street separating the camp from the neighborhood of Kafr ‘Aqab. Young men and children threw stones at the forces, who fired live shots and tear gas at them. At one point, the forces advanced into an alley where many of the youths had gathered and fatally shot 12-year-old Hatem Gheith. The military issued a statement claiming the troops fired after Palestinians “threw cement blocks and stones at the forces, endangering them,” and that they “confirmed hits.” However, according to a B’Tselem investigation, no blocks were thrown, and in any case, stones and blocks do not pose a real threat to soldiers or police officers inside armored vehicles. Moreover, Gheith was shot as he was running away far from the officers, with his back to them. The military’s statement suggests that, from its perspective, the killing of a 12-year-old child does not warrant special attention or an investigation.  

On 19 January 2025, once the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect, the Israeli government declared it was adding the demand for "increased offensive activity" in the West Bank to its official list of "war objectives". The addition was merely a formal affirmation of Israel’s treatment of the West Bank since 7 October 2023 as another front in the all-out war declared on the Palestinians since the Hamas attack. In keeping with this approach, the Israeli regime has ramped up its oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank and adopted more extreme measures, including extreme arbitrary violence against innocent civilians, further loosening of the permissive open-fire policy, severe movement restrictions and disruption of daily life, blanket cancellation of permits to enter Israel, and extreme limitations on access to farmland that are critically damaging livelihoods, mass arrests and the transformation of detention facilities into a network of torture camps.

On 19 January 2025, once the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect, the Israeli government declared it was adding the demand for "increased offensive activity" in the West Bank to its official list of "war objectives". The addition was merely a formal affirmation of Israel’s treatment of the West Bank since 7 October 2023 as another front in the all-out war declared on the Palestinians since the Hamas attack. In keeping with this approach, the Israeli regime has ramped up its oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank and adopted more extreme measures, including extreme arbitrary violence against innocent civilians, further loosening of the permissive open-fire policy, severe movement restrictions and disruption of daily life, blanket cancellation of permits to enter Israel, and extreme limitations on access to farmland that are critically damaging livelihoods, mass arrests and the transformation of detention facilities into a network of torture camps. Read more...

On Monday, 7 October 2024, Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers raided Qalandia Refugee Camp and surrounded it on all sides. Around midday, clashes erupted in the area of the street separating the camp from the neighborhood of Kafr ‘Aqab. Young men and children threw stones at the forces, who fired live shots and tear gas at them. At one point, the forces advanced into an alley where many of the youths had gathered and fatally shot 12-year-old Hatem Gheith. The military issued a statement claiming the troops fired after Palestinians “threw cement blocks and stones at the forces, endangering them,” and that they “confirmed hits.” However, according to a B’Tselem investigation, no blocks were thrown, and in any case, stones and blocks do not pose a real threat to soldiers or police officers inside armored vehicles. Moreover, Gheith was shot as he was running away far from the officers, with his back to them. The military’s statement suggests that, from its perspective, the killing of a 12-year-old child does not warrant special attention or an investigation.