Occupation Forces Raid the West Bank 257 Times, Arresting and Injuring 24 Children
Photo from the Palestinian Information and News Agency (PNA)
June 17, 2025
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded the fall of 508 murdered Palestinians and 2,347 injured in the period between June 10 and 16, 2025. The total number of Palestinians murdered from October 7, 2023, to June 16, 2025, reached 56,768, and the injured reached 136,933. During this period, the Israeli occupation forces sought to completely isolate the Gaza Strip from the world by targeting the last main path of the fiber optic line that supplies Gaza with the Internet. The Israeli occupation forces also cut off fixed communications and Internet lines to the central and southern areas of Gaza, as well as to Gaza City and the north. These aggressions, combined with the regional developments that cast a shadow over the Israeli aggression on Gaza, have reduced the media focus and coverage of the ongoing Israeli massacres against the Palestinians there.
On the ground, the occupation forces continued to target Palestinian food seekers at American aid centers in several areas of the Gaza Strip, where most of the murdered Palestinians fell while trying to earn a living. The occupation forces targeted the Jordanian field hospital in southern Gaza Strip, resulting in a Jordanian nurse working at the hospital being moderately injured. The Israeli occupation forces warned the Palestinians of the need to evacuate the areas east of Gaza City before bombing them, in light of the ongoing aggression on various areas.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) stated that 2,700 Palestinian children under the age of five in the Gaza Strip suffer from severe malnutrition. A report issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education stated that the Israeli occupying forces have murdered 16,245 Palestinian students and wounded 25,959 others since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in October 2023. During the same period, they killed 137 Palestinian students and injured 897 others in the West Bank, in addition to arresting 749, bringing the total number of Palestinian students killed by Israel to 16,382, in addition to 23,532 injured.
The report indicated that the occupation forces bombed and destroyed 443 government schools, universities, educational buildings, and 91 UNRWA schools. It noted that 60 Palestinian university buildings were completely destroyed, 20 educational institutions sustained severe damage, and 152 schools and eight universities were stormed and vandalized in the West Bank. Six UNRWA schools were also closed in Al-Quds. The report explained that Palestinian students in Gaza remain deprived of education for the second year in a row.
Over the past week, Israeli occupation forces arrested 13 Palestinian children in the West Bank and injured 11 others. They also raided the Al-Sawiya village school in Nablus and the Al-Nahda Islamic School in the town of Al-Ram in Al-Quds. These raids disrupted classes for all grades in Nablus due to the ongoing incursions.
In the West Bank, the number of raids carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in various cities and towns reached 257 in one week. These raids included the arrest of 333 Palestinians, the demolition of 3 homes, 13 tents, and residential sheds, the occupation of many homes in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Qalqilya, and converting them into military posts. Additional Israeli aggressions included the demolition of a family’s diwan in Al-Quds, a tourist facility in Qalqilya, agricultural rooms and walls, and the filling of water collection wells in the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Khirbet Abu Falah in Ramallah, and the bulldozing of lands in the town of Halhul in Hebron, Ramallah, and Nablus.
Meanwhile, occupation forces confiscated five private vehicles in Ramallah, Hebron, and Bethlehem, as well as three bulldozers and an agricultural tractor in Salfit, Tubas, and Jericho. Settlers burned a car in Qalqilya, stole excavation equipment in Nablus, and a water tanker in Tubas.
Regarding attacks on places of worship, extremist Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and settlers, under the protection of Israeli police, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and conducted provocative tours. Israeli forces also closed the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and banned prayers there. They also closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and banned anyone from its courtyards over the past few days, citing ongoing regional developments. They also prevented Waqf employees from performing their duties inside the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron throughout the past week.
The number of settlement activities in towns and villages in the West Bank during the period from June 10 to 16, 2025, reached five activities. The Israeli Department of Antiquities began excavation and exploration work in the Old City of Hebron to establish a new archaeological site for settlement projects. Settlers, for the eleventh time, rebuilt a settlement outpost in an archaeological area on Mount Tal al-Batin, south of the town of Sinjil in Ramallah. Settlers also set up a tent west of the village of Osrin in Nablus, and others established a settlement outpost in the village of al-Jab’a in Bethlehem. Other settlers also fenced off lands in Khirbet al-Farisiya in Tubas in preparation for seizing them.
The number of various attacks carried out by settlers against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank reached 50, with settlers focusing their attacks on rural facilities, agricultural lands, and pastureland. Settlers grazed their livestock on Palestinian land north of the town of Sinjil and prevented the owners from entering. They did the same twice in Khirbet al-Farisiya in Tubas, in the village of Beit Ummar in Hebron, and in Shalat al-Auja in Jericho. Other groups of settlers set fire to agricultural land in Beit Ummar, in the town of Huwara in Nablus, in the village of Bardala in Tubas, the town of Bruqin in Salfit, and the town of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah. Settlers destroyed crops in Sinjil and the town of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit, and greenhouses in the village of Ramin in Tulkarm. They closed dirt roads leading to farms in some villages in Bethlehem, demolished an agricultural barn in the village of Al-Minya in the same city, and stole 52 heads of sheep from Khirbet Samra in Tubas and from a barn in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit. The total number of crimes committed by Israelis, including killings, arrests, displacement, destruction, demolition, damage, and theft, in just seven days, reached 3,879 crimes across the Palestinian territories.