[News] 11,000 Attacks in Six Months: Israel Escalates Assault on the West Bank

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11,000 Attacks in Six Months: Israel Escalates Assault on the West BankJuly
31, 2026
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Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers at a West Bank checkpoint.
(Photo: Video grab)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians as new data documented more than
11,000 Israeli attacks across the occupied West Bank this year.

Key Developments

   - Israeli occupation forces detained at least 14 Palestinians during
   raids across the occupied West Bank.
   - Israeli occupation forces continued converting Palestinian homes in
   Tell into military positions.
   - Palestinian authorities recorded 11,074 Israeli military and settler
   attacks during the first half of 2026.

Israeli occupation forces continued sweeping raids across the occupied West
Bank on Friday, detaining at least 14 Palestinians, injuring 11 others, and
facilitating new settler incursions near Nablus, as newly released
Palestinian figures documented more than 11,000 Israeli military and
settler attacks during the first half of 2026.

The latest operations centered on the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus,
where Israeli occupation forces have intensified military measures
following last week’s deadly assault that left four Palestinians dead and
sparked widespread destruction.
Tell Remains under Military Pressure

According to local sources, dozens of illegal Israeli settlers entered the
Ain al-Mazrab area of Tell and nearby al-Ameriya under heavy military
protection before withdrawing less than half an hour later.

The incursion followed calls by settler groups for a mass march into Tell
and came one day after Israeli forces converted four Palestinian homes in
the village into military outposts.

Friday’s operation forms part of an escalating campaign targeting Tell
since last week’s violence, when armed settlers and Israeli forces attacked
the village, killing four Palestinians, injuring several others, and
setting homes, vehicles, and agricultural property ablaze.

Israeli forces also accompanied settler marches through the neighboring
villages of al-Juneid and Surra, prompting confrontations with Palestinian
residents.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said one young Palestinian was shot in
the abdomen with live ammunition, while ten others—including four
children—suffered tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired live
rounds and tear gas to disperse protesters.
Raids in Nablus, Hebron

Simultaneously, Israeli occupation forces carried out coordinated arrest
raids across multiple governorates.

The largest operation took place in Nablus Governorate, where eight
Palestinians—including several former prisoners—were detained following
raids on homes in Nablus city, Tell, Salem, Awarta, and the Popular Housing
neighborhood.

Among those arrested were former prisoners Suhaib Beshkar and Mohammad
Jaafar Dawabsheh, brothers Jamil and Osama Ishtayeh, Mohammad Ziad
Ishtayeh, Ibrahim Awad, Mousa Ramadan, and Hadi Hindi.

Israeli forces also arrested two Palestinians in Yatta, south of Hebron,
two others in Bethlehem—including former prisoner Hussein Abayyat after
soldiers raided his home in Wadi Shahin—one Palestinian at the Atara
military checkpoint north of Ramallah, and another during a raid on his
home in Anabta, east of Tulkarm.

Additional incursions were reported overnight in Birzeit, Beitunia,
al-Bireh, Qaddura refugee camp, Salfit, and several towns across the
northern and central West Bank.

During raids in Ramallah and al-Bireh, Israeli forces fired tear gas near
the Palestine Medical Complex after storming commercial warehouses and the
headquarters of a local popular committee.
11,000 Attacks in Six Months

The raids came as the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission
released new figures documenting 11,074 Israeli military and settler
attacks against Palestinians, their land, and property during the first six
months of 2026.

According to the Commission, the violations included military incursions,
arrests, land confiscation, settlement expansion, checkpoint installations,
and attacks carried out by illegal Israeli settlers.

The figures underscore the accelerating pace of Israeli operations across
the occupied West Bank, where near-daily military raids have continued
alongside expanding settlement activity.

Earlier this week, the United Nations warned that settler violence and land
annexation have reached unprecedented levels, two years after the
International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of the West
Bank illegal under international law.
Arrest Campaign Continues

The latest detentions add to what Palestinian prisoner organizations
describe as one of the largest arrest campaigns in recent history.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Israeli forces have detained
approximately 24,600 Palestinians across the occupied territories since
October 2023, including 1,900 children and 785 women.

The organization says around 9,400 Palestinians remain imprisoned,
including 94 women, more than 350 children, 3,244 administrative detainees
held without charge or trial, and 1,320 detainees classified by Israel as
“unlawful combatants.”

Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups say the continuing arrest campaigns,
coupled with expanding military raids and settler attacks, reflect an
intensifying policy of collective punishment across the occupied West Bank
as Israel presses ahead with its military operations in both Gaza and the
occupied Palestinian territory.

*(QNN, PC, WAFA, AA)*
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