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Crackdown After Shootout
The Israeli military launched a wide-ranging crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians after a shootout in a village near Nablus left four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers dead.
“The Israeli military has launched an aggressive crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming several towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians, amid escalating attacks by Jewish settlers, in a furious reaction to a shootout in a village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed”
Al Jazeera reported that the “wide-scale military operation” across the West Bank was ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the deaths of the soldiers and intensified on Sunday as settlers became bolder and more violent.
In Qusra, southeast of Nablus, Al Jazeera said settlers tried to set two mosques ablaze, including the newly built Al-Rahma Mosque, where Abdel Azim Wadi, head of the village council in Qusra, said settlers spray-painted slogans like “Jewish revenge” on the walls.
Al Jazeera also said Israeli forces raided Rafidia near Nablus and were spotted in Huwara assaulting a paramedic and a man, with the Palestine Red Crescent Society reporting an assault on one of its paramedics in Masafer Yatta to the south of Hebron.
The article added that Wafa reported 30 people were arrested in the village of Tal, where the confrontation that led to the crackdown took place, and 14 in Ramallah, five in Jenin, eight in Hebron, three in Bethlehem, and six in Tulkarem.
Detentions and Injuries
Türkiye Today said Israeli forces detained 58 Palestinians, including women, a child with a disability and a 75-year-old man, during raids across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office.
Türkiye Today reported that the raids targeted several areas, particularly Nablus, Hebron and Tulkarem, and said settlers carried out separate attacks that set fire to an under-construction mosque and part of a Palestinian home and injured several workers.
It added that Israeli forces detained 27 Palestinians in Nablus and surrounding towns, 13 in Hebron and nearby communities, and 14 in Tulkarem and surrounding towns, while also detaining two Palestinians in Jenin and two others in Tammun southeast of Tubas.
Middle East Monitor, citing Palestinian media and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said Israeli forces detained at least 70 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday and that eight others were injured in a separate attack by occupiers.
The same Middle East Monitor account said the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported eight Palestinians were injured, including six who were shot with live fire, in an attack by Israeli occupiers on the village of Farata, east of Qalqilya.
Policy and Escalation Risk
Al Jazeera said Israeli forces and settlers intensified their attacks in the occupied West Bank after October 7, 2023, when the genocidal war on Gaza began, and stated that since then they have killed at least 1,185 Palestinians, including more than 250 children.
It also said at least 12,652 Palestinians have been wounded and more than 24,000 have been detained, and that as of July 1, 2026, 9,299 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails, of whom 3,244 are.
Demócrata reported that Israeli security forces arrested 76 Palestinians during multiple raids across several governorates in the West Bank, including Ramallah and Hebron, and said the governor of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, described the events as an 'aggression' taking place in a 'prolonged silence at the international level'.
Demócrata also quoted Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine researcher Sarah Sanbar warning that the situation could lead to 'mass atrocities' and saying the Israeli government was responsible for 'not preventing settler attacks'.
The article further stated that Netanyahu announced the creation of new 'outposts' for settlers, including those that Israeli law regards as illegal, as well as the regularization of existing settlements.
