In the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, the Israeli occupation army demolished three houses belonging to three brothers, under the pretext of building without a permit, and turned them into rubble, according to the head of the village council, Adnan Shalash.
Shalash explained to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) that the occupation authorities have warned of the demolition of about 95 additional homes in the town, which threatens to displace dozens of Palestinian families, noting that in 2025 about 25 homes and facilities were demolished in Shuqba.
In the Salfit Governorate, Israeli occupation forces demolished a house under construction in the town of Kafr al-Dik, after storming the area with military bulldozers.
The Israeli occupation army continued its military operation in the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank for the third day in a row, deploying military reinforcements, storming Palestinian homes, conducting searches and field investigations, and imposing a curfew in the southern neighborhoods of the city, leading to an almost complete paralysis of movement, and the arrest of at least 7 Palestinians.
One year since a large-scale Israeli offensive on camps in the northern West Bank
During the year since the start of the large-scale Israeli aggression against the camps in the northern West Bank, the Shirin Observatory for Human Rights reveals that Israel killed 84 Palestinians in the city of Jenin and its camp, and 17 in Tulkarm, during continuous military operations targeting the camps and their surroundings.
UNRWA also reported that the offensive destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced some 32,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps and surrounding areas. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described these developments as the longest and most widespread displacement crisis in the West Bank since 1967, resulting from the ongoing military operations that began in January 2015.
Regarding infrastructure, a UN report confirmed that approximately 1,460 buildings were completely or partially damaged in the three camps, including 676 in Jenin camp, 382 in Nur Shams, and 402 in Tulkarm. The Palestinian Prisoners Club also reported the arrest of approximately 2,300 Palestinians and the conversion of hundreds of homes into military barracks.
Escalating violations by Al-Aqsa and settlers
In parallel, Israeli settlers escalated their attacks, burning three bulldozers, a vehicle and equipment belonging to Palestinians in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus. Dozens of settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, also attacked the town of Qusra, south of the city, amid heavy gunfire, which led to clashes with the residents.
Local sources told Wafa news agency that settlers had set up tents and begun bulldozing work on lands located between the villages of Qusra, Talfit and Jalud, in an attempt to expand the settlement, which threatens to completely besiege the Palestinian villages.
In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli authorities closed a UNRWA health center in the Shuafat refugee camp, a move that came one day after theyseized the agency’s headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and began demolition work inside it.
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization warned of the danger of the worsening financial crisis of UNRWA, pointing to a deficit of $384 million in the 2026 budget, and measures that include laying off hundreds of employees and reducing salaries, which threaten the continuation of vital services for Palestinian refugees.
At the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli police, for the first time, allowed settlers to bring Jewish prayer books into the mosque compound during their incursions, in a blatant violation of the status quo. These prayer books, or printed copies thereof, contain Torah texts and Jewish prayers.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted that this move comes in the context of gradual changes in the occupation administration of the place, amid Palestinian warnings of its religious and political repercussions.
Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque 280 times during 2025, according to a report issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs.
Since the start of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, the attacks by the occupation army and settlers have left at least 1,107 Palestinian martyrs, about 11,000 wounded, in addition to the arrest of more than 21,000, according to official Palestinian data.
Israel was established in 1948 on lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs who committed massacres and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Tel Aviv then occupied the rest of the Palestinian territories
