Israeli Forces Arrest Four Palestinians, Including Two Women, During Bethlehem And Ramallah Raids

Israeli forces arrested four Palestinians, including two women, during raids in the Bethlehem and Ramallah-and-Al-Bireh governorates in the occupied West Bank, while settlers protected by the army began carving roads inside Palestinian lands.

“Israeli army arrests 4 Palestinians, including two women, in the West Bank”

Anadolu Ajansi

Local sources told Anadolu Ajansı that Israeli forces entered the village of al-Rashayda east of Bethlehem and raided several Palestinian homes before arresting two women, after an assault by settlers on shepherds left one injured with bruises.

Anadolu Ajansi

In the southwestern area of Bethlehem, settlers accompanied by two bulldozers entered the village of al-Jub’a and began clearing a settler road west of the village that runs across lands belonging to the town of Surif in the northern Hebron Governorate, about two kilometers long and six meters wide.

In parallel, Israeli bulldozers moved in Beitar, west of Bethlehem, to carry out works to carve a settler road in the al-Hanjaliyah area, with the aim of linking it to a settler outpost erected on Palestinian lands.

The Palestinian Information Center said Israeli occupation bulldozers began on Sunday to carve out a settler road on lands belonging to residents of the village of Beitir, west of Bethlehem, extending to a settlement outpost erected on residents' lands in the al-Hanjaliyya area.

The Israeli occupation authorities informed the family of Magdi Abu Ara from the town of Aqaba in the northern West Bank of his death after about a year and a half of enforced disappearance and secrecy about his fate, according to what his father confirmed.

Noor Abu Ara told Anadolu Ajansı that the family received a call from the Israeli Center for the Defense of the Individual, “Hamoked,” which had been tasked with following up the case, informing them that the Israeli occupation authorities had confirmed his son’s martyrdom after legal procedures lasting several months before the Israeli judiciary.

WAFA Agency

He said, “We did not know his fate during all this time, whether he was detained, injured, or martyred,” and added that the Israeli army denied his existence in its custody.

The same Anadolu Ajansı report tied the announcement to a Sunday series of raid and arrest operations in the West Bank, including arrests of four Palestinians, and described settlers under army protection beginning carving roads inside Palestinian lands.

In a separate account, عربي21 said the Israeli occupation acknowledged the martyrdom of a Palestinian after concealing his fate and continued arrest campaigns in the West Bank.

In Jenin Governorate, Israeli bulldozers began uprooting hundreds of olive trees in the town of Zububa, west of the governorate, according to local sources cited by Anadolu Ajansı.

“Sunday, 28 June 2026 Sunday, 28-June-2026 Palestinian Information Center Israeli occupation bulldozers began on Sunday to carve out a settler road on lands belonging to residents of the village of Beitir, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank”

Al-Markaz Al-Filastini lil-I'laam

WAFA described how, for three consecutive days, families in Zububa watched helplessly as Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive trees that had stood for more than half a century, stripping away income and family history rooted in the land.

Zububa Village Council head Zaki Jaradat told WAFA that Israeli authorities initially issued notices covering five dunums of olive groves before expanding them to 60 dunums and later to 126 dunums across three locations, while he said more than 120 dunums had already been bulldozed and around 1,200 olive trees uprooted.

WAFA also reported that farmer Munir Jaradat said, “It was the uprooting of our family's memories,” and recalled his mother carrying water containers on her head across hundreds of meters to irrigate saplings until they matured.

The same WAFA report said that since Palestinians from the village lost access to jobs inside Israel following the outbreak of the Gaza war in 2023, agriculture became the primary source of income for dozens of households, and it warned Jaradat that if bulldozing continues, nearly 500 dunums of farmland could eventually be destroyed.