Before dawn broke on Thursday, armoured vehicles and soldiers moved once again through towns and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, extending a pattern of mass detentions that has become routine under the shadow of the ongoing genocidal war. Homes were entered without warning, streets sealed off, and entire neighbourhoods placed under military lockdown as families woke to the sound of doors being forced open.

East of Jerusalem, the town of Hizma faced its third consecutive day of incursions, with entrances blocked and dozens of houses searched. Residents described rooms ransacked and personal belongings damaged, while similar scenes unfolded in Qalandiya refugee camp, where gunfire accompanied a dawn raid that ended with young men taken away as prisoners. In Hebron’s Beit Ula, soldiers moved house to house, leaving behind broken furniture and frightened families.

Further north, refugee camps in Tulkarm and Jenin were subjected to intensified military activity, causing visible destruction to roads, water networks and power lines. In Qabatiya, troops spread through residential streets, detaining residents for on-the-spot questioning before releasing some and transferring others into custody. These operations coincided with continued measures aimed at consolidating settlement outposts in surrounding areas, tightening control over land and movement.

Elsewhere, arrests were recorded at military checkpoints near Ramallah, while the Bethlehem area saw heightened tension after a young Palestinian was shot dead near a checkpoint, followed by overnight raids in nearby towns. By midweek, a single day had seen around 130 people taken as prisoners, a figure that underscores the scale of the current campaign. Prisoner support organisations report that since the start of 2026, several hundred Palestinians have been detained, many facing harsh conditions during interrogation and imprisonment.