Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians in West Bank raids while settlers assaulted a Palestinian man and his wife on their farmland.
Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians, including two children, during overnight and predawn raids across the West Bank. These military actions spanned three governorates, resulting in the detentions in Tubas, Nablus, and Bethlehem. Simultaneously, Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian man and his wife on their own farmland in the al-Zarqa area of Beitillu, leaving both with injuries requiring hospital treatment. Nour Odeh reported that military jeeps and soldiers used tear gas inside a supermarket in Ramallah, highlighting the daily disruptions caused by settlement expansion. In the same week, settlers erected 12 illegal outposts. Further south, activist Osama Makhamreh reported that Israeli forces chased down and detained 11 workers in Khashem al-Daraj, while settlers in Surif set fire to a car and sprayed racist graffiti. These events reflect a11,000 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the first half of the year. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham criticized the humanitarian crisis, calling the scale of the settlement violence and forced displacement unacceptable.