In addition to the major offensive against northern areas of the occupied territory that began on Wednesday, which continued to cause widespread destruction, Israeli forces have injured more than 200 Palestinians in raids on the West Bank governorate of Tubas.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), 78 of the wounded in the Israeli attacks on Tubas since Wednesday required hospital care.
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Israeli soldiers have moved the focus of their raids to Tubas as well as the nearby villages of Aqqaba and Tayaseer since Friday when they retreated from Tammun and Far’a refugee camp.
Nearly 200 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces in the last four days, according to local officials. At least eight people were detained and transferred to Israeli military jails, despite the majority of them being interrogated and released on the spot.
In addition to the military raids in Qalqilya, Jenin, and Nablus, at least nine Palestinians were taken into custody. According to local sources, two children and a woman were among the five people detained in Qalqilya at dawn on Saturday, according to local sources.
Since October 2023, there have been 47 army incursions on average every day across the occupied West Bank in November. These incursions have been accompanied by violent raids by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers.
The town’s mayor of Tammun told Al Jazeera that despite the number of raids in the Tubas governorate over the past few years, the ones this week were the worst in terms of scale, destruction, and violence.
He claimed that more than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) of Israeli-occupied West Bank roads have been torn up, water networks have been vandalized, private property has been vandalized, and people have been severely beaten, a pattern that has been repeated by other significant Israeli military attacks.
Israeli bulldozers are paving the way for the destruction of at least 23 more Palestinian homes in the Jenin refugee camp, where Israeli soldiers have been advanceing in a major offensive launched in January.
Even though the area is mostly empty because most of the families have been displaced, they issued notices several days later saying the demolitions were necessary to guarantee “freedom of movement” for the Israeli forces inside the camp.
340 Palestinians lived in the condemned buildings. On Thursday, only 47 of them, primarily women, were permitted to retrieve their belongings.
Residents were given two hours to pick up their belongings, according to a Jenin refugee camp services committee member, and some could not even recognize their homes as a result of the Israeli assault’s destruction.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing reported on Friday that its fighters carried out numerous attacks on Israeli soldiers during raids in Jenin and Tubas.
In the Wadi al-Tayaseer neighborhood, the group claimed its fighters in Tubas used an antipersonnel explosive device to attack an Israeli foot patrol. In the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin, fighters reportedly detonated explosives against Israeli military vehicles.
At least 1, 086 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, including 223 children, by Israeli soldiers. At least 251 were killed in 2025.
Since Israel’s war against Gaza began, at least 10, 662 Palestinians have been injured, and more than 20, 500 have been taken into custody. In Israel’s prisons at the beginning of November, there were 9, 204 Palestinians, of whom 3, 368 are detained without charges.
