Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians, settlers attack West Bank towns

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Israeli occupation forces detain over a dozen Palestinians during fresh raids across the occupied West Bank, as settlers escalated land seizures and attacks on Palestinian farmland in several areas.

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Israeli settlers supported by Israeli occupation forces block access for Palestinians to their olives in the West Bank village of Sa'ir, near al-Khalil, occupied Palestine, October 23, 2025. (AP)

Israeli occupation forces carried out large-scale raids and arrests across several West Bank cities and towns on Sunday, detaining at least 13 Palestinians amid ongoing incursions and settler violence.

According to local sources, occupation forces detained seven Palestinians from Ramallah and al-Bireh, five from al-Khalil, and a freed detainee from Tulkarem after storming his home in the city’s southern neighborhood.

In Nablus, occupation troops raided and searched multiple homes, while similar incursions were reported in the towns of Deir Ballut and al-Zawiya, west of Salfit. Footage shared on social media showed heavily armed soldiers breaking into residential areas and conducting house-to-house searches.

Meanwhile, a young Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces in the town of al-Ram, north of occupied al-Quds. Occupation troops also opened fire on a group of Palestinian workers near the village of Husan, west of Beit Lahm, detaining several of them for hours.

Settler attacks continue

Simultaneously, Israeli settlers stepped up their assaults on Palestinian lands across the occupied West Bank. Armed settler groups plowed and fenced off hundreds of dunams of agricultural land in the village of Sikka and the town of Beit Awwa, west of al-Khalil, in what residents described as a clear attempt to seize the land.

In the Wadi Omar area, south of the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, settlers attacked Palestinian-owned farmland and prevented farmers from accessing their lands. The head of the Sikka village council said settlers from the illegal Neghohot settlement targeted around 500 dunams of fertile land in an effort to annex them to nearby settlement expansion zones.

Elsewhere, settlers erected fences around land in Khirbet al-Farisiyah in the northern Jordan Valley and cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of al-Maniya, south of Bethlehem. These coordinated assaults come amid an ongoing campaign to impose a status quo, facilitating further settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank at the expense of Palestinian communities.