In the early hours of Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) executed a widespread arrest campaign across several areas of the occupied West Bank, including Hebron, Tulkarm and Tubas, marking a further intensification of what many local observers describe as the extension of the genocidal war. The operation targeted civilian homes, resulting in multiple detentions and the imposition of movement restrictions on entire neighbourhoods.

In Hebron, troops entered a number of residential districts, detaining four named individuals after searching family homes linked to the al-Atrash and al-Rajabi clans. The city’s main and secondary roads were blocked off with iron gates, concrete slabs and earth barricades—a tactic of collective immobilisation rather than targeted policing. In Tulkarm, the home of 50-year-old former detainee Malik Sa’adeh Jallad was raided, its contents vandalised before his arrest in the Irtaah district south of the city.

Tragically, in the New Askar refugee camp outside Nablus, a 15-year-old boy, Muhammed Abu Haneen, was pronounced dead after sustaining serious injuries during the raid on Thursday evening. Local medical teams confirm he was shot by the IDF and later succumbed to his wounds. These developments occur amid official Palestinian figures indicating thousands of arrests since the war’s onset, and an intensifying pattern of demolitions and settler-violence that civil society networks say amounts to elements of the genocidal war underway.