Israeli forces kidnaped 11 Palestinians, including a woman, during pre-dawn raids on Wednesday, intensifying the ongoing campaign of repression against the Palestinian population under illegal Israeli occupation.

According to the Prisoners’ Media Office, three Palestinians were detained in Qalqilya, while another three were seized in the Bethlehem governorate. Israeli troops also arrested one Palestinian in Jaba, south of Jenin, a woman in Iktaba village east of Tulkarem, and two young men in Qusra village south of Nablus. Northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, forces targeted a Palestinian academic from the town of Biddu.

In Madama village south of Nablus, dozens of homes were raided, with residents subjected to humiliating field interrogations, though no arrests were reported in that specific incursion.

These arrests come amid a relentless Israeli military campaign that has devastated Palestinian communities since October 8, 2023. Official Palestinian figures reveal the staggering human cost: 1,173 Palestinians killed, 12,666 wounded, approximately 23,000 arrested, and 33,000 displaced by Israeli raids and illegal settler attacks.

Separately, eight Palestinians were injured in coordinated attacks by illegal Israeli settlers on homes and farmland in the Hebron and Nablus governorates. In Yatta, south of Hebron, armed settlers assaulted homes and agricultural land in Wadi al-Rakhim and Khallet al-Hummus, spraying four Palestinians with pepper gas and uprooting around 60 olive trees. Settlers also blocked a vital road connecting the areas, further isolating Palestinian residents.

In Burin village south of Nablus, settlers from the Yitzhar illegal settlement attacked a Palestinian home, physically assaulting a man and his three sons while vandalizing two vehicles, according to the village council head Ibrahim Imran.

Palestinian farmers and communities continue to face existential threats as their lands and crops are systematically targeted, turning fertile fields into battlegrounds in a clear effort to force Palestinians off their ancestral land.

Palestinians have long warned that these daily raids, arbitrary arrests, and settler pogroms—often carried out with the complicity or direct protection of the Israeli army—are designed to pave the way for formal Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank. Such a move would completely destroy any remaining hope for an independent Palestinian state, as envisioned under international law and UN resolutions.

Israel established itself in 1948 through the displacement of Palestinians by armed Zionist groups and went on to occupy the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem in 1967. For decades, the Palestinian people have endured military occupation, settlement expansion, and systemic violence as they struggle for freedom, dignity, and self-determination on their own land.

The international community continues to witness the daily reality of occupation: home raids, arbitrary detentions, and settler terrorism that aim to break the will of a resilient Palestinian population resisting dispossession. (ILKHA)