This escalation included the governorates of Hebron in the south, Ramallah in the center, and Nablus and Tubas in the north. The Israeli occupation army imposed strict measures on the daily movement of citizens, closed main streets, and raided Palestinian homes, which led to the disruption of public services and schools.
These developments come at a time when the occupied West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers against Palestinians, their property and livelihoods, during the two years of genocide that Tel Aviv began in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli escalation in the West Bank has led to the martyrdom of at least 1,087 Palestinians, the injury of more than 10,000, and the arrest of more than 21,000, according to official data.
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation army announced that it had killed a Palestinian in the city of Hebron during a joint operation with the General Security Service “Shin Bet”, claiming that he had carried out a car-ramming attack that resulted in the injury of a female soldier near the Kiryat Arba settlement.
The Israeli army said in a statement that its forces spotted the vehicle used by the perpetrator as he tried to escape before shooting and killing him.
Eyewitnesses said that the (Israeli) occupation forces stormed Hebron from several entrances and roamed its streets, after closing the barriers and iron gates. They also raided the vicinity of hospitals in the city, including Al-Ahli Hospital, Muhammad Ali Hospital, Al-Mizan Hospital, and Al-Ahli Hospital, and were stationed at their entrances.
For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a statement that the General Authority for Civil Affairs (the body that communicates with the Israeli side) informed it of the “martyrdom of the boy Muhannad Tariq Muhammad Al-Zughair (17 years old) by Israeli army bullets in the city of Hebron.”
In Ramallah, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of the young man, Muhammad Raslan Mahmoud Asmar (18 years old), from the town of Beit Rima, north of the city, by bullets fired by the Israeli occupation army, which seized his body.
This came after two Israeli soldiers were injured in a stabbing attack near the entrance to the settlement of "Atarot," while the occupation army announced that the perpetrator of the attack had been killed.
The Israeli occupation army closed all entrances to Ramallah, causing a severe traffic jam and preventing thousands of Palestinians from reaching their workplaces. It also stormed the town of Beit Rima with a large military force, amid noticeable security tension in the city.
Hamas, in a statement, considered the stabbing operation "a natural response to the crimes of the occupation," and stressed that "attempts to break the will of the Palestinians will not work."
In Nablus, Israeli forces blew up a residential apartment on the top floor of a three-story building in the Zawata area, west of the city, belonging to the family of prisoner Abdul Karim Sanoubar.
The occupation army closed the entrances to the area and its surroundings, including the Holy Quran Academy station, and evacuated Palestinian families before blowing up the house.
It is worth noting that Sanoubar was arrested on February 20, allegedly for his responsibility for a series of attacks targeting Israeli buses, and his family was notified last September with an official notice to demolish their home on the grounds of "security use".
Demolition of a prisoner's house
For its part, the Tubas Governorate said in a statement that the Israeli occupation army demolished the home of prisoner Ayman Ghannam in the town of Aqaba in the north, as part of an ongoing military campaign in the governorate.
The governorate added that Israeli forces surrounded Ghannam’s house, forced residents of neighboring houses to evacuate before the demolition, and imposed a curfew on the governorate’s residents, which led to the disruption of schools and public services.
She stressed that the Israeli occupation army has been using some houses as military barracks since the beginning of the raids, and continues to close the main roads and entrances to the city, and also pursues merchants and workers who try to open their shops to meet the needs of the residents.
Israeli forces arrested Ghannam on December 4, 2024, from the Arab Specialized Hospital in Nablus, after he was injured in an air raid that targeted a vehicle near the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas, in an operation that also resulted in the martyrdom of a number of Palestinians.
For more than a week, the Tubas Governorate has witnessed a military escalation that has caused widespread destruction of infrastructure and property, in addition to injuring hundreds of Palestinians and arresting dozens of others.
The Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps in the northern West Bank have been witnessing a military operation since January 21, during which the Israeli occupation army demolished thousands of homes and forced about 32,000 Palestinians to flee, according to official data.
21,000 arrests
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Club reported on Tuesday that “the occupation has arrested about 21,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Jerusalem,” in addition to thousands more from the Gaza Strip, since the start of the war of extermination on October 7, 2023.
The club said in a statement that "the occupation authorities continue to carry out a systematic and unprecedented campaign of arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the start of the war of extermination, reaching about 21,000 arrests, in addition to thousands of other residents of the Gaza Strip."
The number of Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip was not mentioned, as Israel continues to conceal any information relating to them.
The club stressed that the daily figures "not only reflect the significant increase in the number of detainees, but also the rising level of violations and crimes accompanying the arrests, most notably the field executions carried out by the Israeli army during the raids."
He pointed out that this escalation "is accompanied by legislative efforts in Israel to enact a law that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, which represents an extension of the occupation's policies that have continued for decades to target the Palestinian presence and strengthen the tools of repression, control and surveillance."
The Prisoners Club said that “the arrests and violations taking place inside prisons and camps constitute a direct extension of the war of extermination to which the Palestinian people are subjected,” explaining that “the occupation has raised the level of crimes committed against detainees and their families since the beginning of the war.”
The Prisoners Club stressed the need for the international community to take action "to stop the ongoing crimes against prisoners," emphasizing that these attacks represent "a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law" and threaten the lives of thousands of Palestinian detainees.
According to Palestinian prisoners' institutions, as of November 2025, more than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners were in Israeli prisons, including 3,368 held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
More than 350 children and more than 50 women remain behind bars, in addition to more than 1,340 prisoners from the Gaza Strip, including 1,205 detainees under the "unlawful combatant" law.
