Israeli escalation in Gaza and the West Bank and the rise in the death toll of Palestinian casualties
On Wednesday, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem witnessed a new wave of systematic Israeli attacks, represented in large-scale raids and raids, which resulted in the arrest of about 41 Palestinians, including released prisoners and university students, most of which were concentrated in Nablus, Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Tulkarm, and the towns around Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Palestinian media reported that the ongoing arrest campaigns come as part of a consistent Israeli strategy to thwart any escalation on the ground or an organizational structure of the Palestinian factions in the West Bank, and the occupation forces rely on the policy of "precautionary detention" and transfer to administrative detention without official charges to restrict the movement of activists.
The occupation forces also raided Askar camp, east of Nablus, and carried out sabotage searches of dozens of houses, and the raids extended to the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, and the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas, accompanied by the tightening of military restrictions and the closure of the entrances to the villages, especially in Bethlehem. and in Jerusalem.
The occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention of employees of the Islamic Endowments Department, and issued a decision to deport the Jerusalemite Nafisa Khuwais from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of 6 months.
The policy of demolition and the incursion of settlers
The Israeli occupation forces carried out new demolitions in the town of Jaba', north of occupied Jerusalem, on a two-story house housing two families of 13 members, in addition to a commercial facility, under the pretext of building without a permit, despite the imposition of previous fines on its owner.
At the same time, the settlers also escalated their provocative attacks: in the village of Minya, southeast of Bethlehem, settlers threw stones at citizens' homes, causing terror to children, while other settlers attacked the residents of the "Arab Mleihat" community near the village of Al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, by pushing their livestock towards the residents' homes to forcibly displace them.
Tents of displaced people in the crosshairs of fire
In Gaza, two citizens, one of them a woman, were killed and others were injured in a bombardment carried out by the occupation drones and artillery targeting the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources reported that a drone targeted the area of Al-Mughraqa, while the citizen Rawya Ahmed Abu Madi was killed as a result of her injuries in Ghaith camp in Khan Younis, in conjunction with artillery shelling that hit the east of the city and a tent for displaced people in the area of Al-Mawasi and the beach camp.
The new Israeli attacks have raised the total death toll in the Gaza Strip since October 7 , 2023, to 72,944 deaths, pointing out that human bleeding has continued with more than 935 deaths since the fragile ceasefire agreement came into force on October 11, 2025, amid repeated Israeli violations justified by Tel Aviv by "dealing with localized threats."
In this context, the Israeli occupation army's engineering units carried out 5 large-scale bombing and blowing up of entire residential blocks east of Gaza City and northeast of Khan Younis, where dense smoke plumes rose accompanied by gunfire, flares and bulldozing and arson practices in the areas controlled by the military near Hamad Hospital, southeast of Mawasi Rafah.
The horrors of militarization of aid and medical evacuation
In turn , Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirmed in a recent report that the effects of the violence related to the operation of the so-called "food distribution points" that Israel managed with US support through security mercenaries in May 2025 as an alternative to the United Nations under a humanitarian title, but the violent practices of those responsible for it are still continuing, leaving hundreds of permanent disabilities and psychological trauma.
The organization warned against a repeat of the experience of "militarization of aid" after documenting 32 deaths and the treatment of 1,885 people injured by direct bullets and a stampede in 2025.
The health sector in Gaza has been in a state of total collapse as a result of the targeting of hospitals and the denial of access to medical supplies over the months of the war, making it impossible to treat critical cases or rescue those injured in direct shelling locally.
In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) evacuated 73 people (33 patients and 40 companions) from the Medical Rehabilitation Hospital in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah land crossing in coordination with the World Health Organization, in an attempt to rescue those in critical cases who lack specialized treatment as a result of the increasing pressure and the massive destruction of the medical infrastructure caused by the continuous aggression.