[News] Israeli army launches massive arrest, eviction campaign in occupied West Bank

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Israeli army launches massive arrest, eviction campaign in occupied West
Bank

The raids coincided with large and violent settler attacks on a village
south of occupied Nablus

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

APR 27, 2026 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-launches-massive-arrest-eviction-campaign-in-occupied-west-bank
(Photo credit: AFP)

Israeli forces have launched a massive arrest raid into the occupied West
Bank’s Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem – detaining dozens of
Palestinians on 27 April.

The raid began overnight on Sunday and extended into Monday. Israeli troops
stormed several Palestinian homes, evicting over a dozen families and
transforming an entire civilian area into a military interrogation zone.

At least 35 Palestinians have been detained throughout the 15-hour raid,
which remains ongoing, WAFA <https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/169864>
news agency reported on early Monday evening.

“Demolition notices were issued against dozens of residential and
commercial structures in the area, in parallel with the ongoing military
escalation,” the Palestinian outlet said.

WAFA added, citing a statement from the Jerusalem Governorate, that Israeli
troops have “been conducting raids since early dawn, storming homes,
forcing residents out, and turning several houses into military outposts
amid heavy deployment and drone activity.”

“Several injuries were reported, including live-fire injuries, beatings,
and cases of tear gas inhalation, as Israeli forces fired live ammunition
and gas canisters inside residential neighborhoods,” the Jerusalem
Governorate said.

According to local media, more Israeli military reinforcements are being
deployed.

Recently released prisoners Majd and Ahmed Abu Gharbiya were rearrested
earlier during a separate incursion into the towns of Kafr Aqab and Al-Ram.

Israeli troops also stormed occupied Nablus and its Old City. The raids
coincided with a significant uptick in settler violence and vandalism.

“Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Jalud, south
of Nablus, for the second time on Monday. Large groups of colonists stormed
residential areas in the village, surrounding several young men inside a
barn, with their fate remaining unknown … Earlier in the day, a child and a
young man were injured during a previous colonist attack on the same
village,” local sources told WAFA.

Settler violence has been on a continuous rise since Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government came to power in late 2022. Since then,
Israeli authorities have accelerated plans for an illegal annexation of the
West Bank, which was occupied in 1967.

In February, the Israeli government approved
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/35989> a land registration process
allowing Israel to claim territory in the occupied West Bank as “state
property” if Palestinians cannot prove ownership – a move that has been
described as “de facto annexation.”

A few weeks later, dozens of new illegal settlements
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-cabinet-secretly-greenlights-dozens-of-illegal-west-bank-settlements>were
approved.

Israel's cabinet had voted in 2025 to take full responsibility for land
registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is an area
comprising around 60 percent of the territory and home to the vast majority
of Israeli settlements.

A bill
<https://thecradle.co/articles/knesset-passes-two-west-bank-annexation-bills-in-embarrassment-to-netanyahu>passed
by the Knesset in October last year also called for applying Israeli
“sovereignty” over all settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the territory
since 7 October 2023. UN experts warned
<https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/special-alert-genocide-extending-into-west-bank-u-n-experts-warn>
in March 2026 that Israel’s policy of genocide was extending into the West
Bank.
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