Israeli Regime Arrests 14 Palestinians amid Escalating West Bank Attacks
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- August, 23, 2026 - 17:38
In the northern West Bank, Israeli occupiers burned a residential room belonging to a Palestinian in the northern part of Osarin town, south of Nablus, local sources told Anadolu.
They also set fire to a vehicle, partially burning it, and spray-painted racist slogans at the site, the sources said.
Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Israeli occupiers attacked the Khala'il al-Louz area east of the city, damaging irrigation pipes used for crops, cutting down trees and damaging Palestinian property and agricultural land.
Israeli occupiers also uprooted olive and grape trees from Palestinian-owned land in al-Minya village, east of Bethlehem, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In Nablus, Israeli forces raided the towns of Beita, Tell and Beit Dajan, storming and searching several homes, Wafa reported.
In Tulkarem, Israeli army and police vehicles raided the city, concentrating their presence in the city center and market area while harassing Palestinians.
Police also issued traffic tickets to Palestinian vehicles, according to eyewitnesses.
The witnesses added that the army raised the Israeli flag on the minaret of a mosque in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem.
Elsewhere, two Palestinians, including a child, from the village of al-Rashaydeh in Bethlehem were detained during an incursion.
In Qalqilya, the Israeli army arrested six Palestinians after raiding the city and searching homes in the Kafr Saba and al-Naqqar neighborhoods, according to Wafa.
The army also rounded up five Palestinians from Tulkarem and another from Beita during its incursions.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces closed the western entrance to al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the city, preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving.
They also subjected some Palestinians to field interrogations and fired tear gas toward vehicles.
Local sources told Anadolu that the western entrance is currently the village’s only access point after the Israeli army closed its eastern entrance on Oct. 7, 2023.
According to the same sources, Israeli occupiers burned a tent, equipment and animal feed belonging to a Palestinian farmer on the outskirts of Burqa village, east of Ramallah.
The occupied West Bank has witnessed a surge in Israeli occupier attacks and military raids since the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, amid Palestinian and international warnings over the consequences of the continued escalation.