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Israeli Army Seizes 16 Homes in The West Bank

CrossFireArabia
August 13, 2026

The Israeli army seized 16 Palestinian homes in and around Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank and converted them into military posts, a local official said Thursday.

Abdul Azim al-Wadi, head of the Qusra village council, told Anadolu that the army was continuing its military offensive in the town, south of Nablus, and had informed the council that it would last until Sunday morning.

Large Israeli forces, accompanied by infantry troops, military vehicles and bulldozers, entered Qusra and deployed across the town and its outskirts, he said.

Al-Wadi said the Israeli army told the council it was seeking to dismantle an illegal outpost established by occupiers near the town amid escalating tensions in the area. He said three Palestinian families, including one with US citizenship, remained trapped inside their homes for a 4th consecutive day.

An Anadolu correspondent saw Israeli troops stationed inside several homes, while some families left their houses to stay with relatives.

Since Sunday, Israeli occupiers have erected a tent and temporary structures among Palestinian homes in the Ras al-Ain area on the outskirts of Qusra, according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.

The occupiers also blocked roads leading to the area with rocks and surrounded three homes, the commission said.

It warned that the attacks could develop into a prolonged siege intended to isolate the families and force them from their homes.

The occupiers have obstructed the delivery of food, water and medicine to the homes, while water and electricity lines have also been cut, it added.

Earlier Thursday, large Israeli forces raided Qusra, imposed a curfew and ordered businesses to close amid a widespread deployment of infantry troops, military vehicles and bulldozers.

The developments come amid escalating occupier attacks in the area and Palestinian concerns that attempts to establish the outpost could become permanent and lead to the seizure of Palestinian homes and land.

The commission said occupiers had attempted eight times to establish an outpost in the Jabal Ras al-Ain area, citing its strategic location on high ground overlooking a large area.

Attempts to raid and seize the homes began about four months ago, prompting family members to take turns staying in them to prevent their takeover, it added.

The commission warned of a repeat of events in the nearby village of Jalud, where it said occupiers seized a home belonging to Mahmoud al-Tubasi’s family on July 22 after besieging it for more than three months.

According to the commission’s latest figures, occupiers carried out 12,506 attacks from October 2023 through June 2026, killing 52 Palestinians and setting 890 fires that damaged Palestinian property and farmland.

It also documented 2,256 attacks across the occupied West Bank in July, including 1,458 by Israeli forces and 798 by occupiers. Anadolu

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Israel Arrest Palestinian Journalist and Drop Site Contributor Mohammed Awad

marwan
August 13, 2026

Israeli forces have arrested Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor, Mohammad Awad, 38, from his hometown of Bitunia, west Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, early Wednesday morning. Two other Palestinians were arrested after raiding and searching their homes in the nearby city of Al-Bireh, according to the Wafa news agency. Israeli soldiers first raided an apartment in a different neighborhood that Awad’s family had moved out of months earlier, breaking down the door only to find it empty, Awad’s wife Eman told Al-Araby. They then went on foot to the family’s current home and pounded on the door until Awad opened it. He was blindfolded, handcuffed behind his back, and forced to walk down five flights of stairs before being taken away in a military jeep in a scene captured on video. Awad’s reporting for Drop Site has covered escalating violence by Israeli settlers across the West Bank, including the burning of a mosque in Qusra, south of Nablus, and an attack in Masafer Yatta last week that wounded five Palestinians and burned four homes. With his detention, the number of Palestinian journalists held in Israeli prisons has risen to 40, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Israel has killed more than 260 journalists since it began its genocide in Gaza, two of whom died in Israeli prisons according to Drop Site News.

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Israel Slams Detention Order on Palestinian Prisoner Who Spent 12 Years in Jail

marwan
July 30, 2026

Israeli authorities issued a six-month administrative detention order against a Palestinian prisoner on the day he was scheduled to be released after spending more than 12 years in prison, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said Thursday.

In a statement, the nongovernmental group said Israeli intelligence issued the order against Mohammad Ahmad Abdel Wahab al-Madani, 32, from Askar refugee camp east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, after he completed his sentence.

Israel uses administrative detention to hold Palestinians without charge or trial, based on classified files, with detention orders renewable for repeated periods.

Al-Madani had been due to complete his original 12-year jail sentence on May 30, 2026, the society said.

Israeli authorities brought another case against him during his detention, extending his sentence by two additional months and imposing a fine, it added.

Al-Madani’s family went Wednesday to a military checkpoint to welcome him back, before his lawyer informed them that Israeli authorities had issued a six-month administrative detention order, preventing his release, the group said.

The society said al-Madani’s case “is not an exceptional case,” but falls within an Israeli policy that has seen an “unprecedented expansion” in the use of administrative detention against Palestinians, especially since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023.

According to the organization, the number of new and renewed administrative detention orders has exceeded 20,000 since the start of the Gazawar, while the number of administrative detainees reached 3,244 by early July.

Israeli authorities did not exclude children, women, the elderly, the sick or the wounded from administrative detention, the group said.

It noted that 180 children were held under administrative detention by the end of last year, while dozens of women have been subjected to the measure since the start of the war.

The society called on the international community, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to act urgently to pressure Israel to end its administrative detention policy and release administrative detainees.

Israel holds around 9,400 Palestinian prisoners, including 94 women, more than 350 children, 3,244 administrative detainees and 1,320 people it classifies as “unlawful combatants,” according to Palestinian figures.

Palestinian and Israeli rights groups say prisoners face torture, starvation and medical neglect, leading to the deaths of dozens. Anadolu

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Woman Loses Fetus on Israeli Military Checkpoint

marwan
July 27, 2026

CROSSFIREARABIA – A Palestinian lady from the Qaryout village, south Nablus, loses fetus because the Israeli army refused to let an ambulance pass the Awarta military checkpoint, Monday, leading to the hospital. The ambulance crew were taken for questioning, leaving the lady on her own at the ambulance after herself being searched. The lady was sixth-month pregnant and was hemorrhaging. The ambulancemen also added that the soldiers forced them to turn off the ignition which led to the stoppage of the aiding equipment inside the vehicle. The ambulance was stopped for at least half-hour before being allowed to pass the military-checkpoint according to the Palestine Information Center.

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