Israeli occupation forces have unleashed a wave of destruction and violence across the West Bank, leaving Palestinian communities reeling. Wielding bulldozers and heavy weaponry, Israeli occupation soldiers have stormed through cities and villages, demolishing homes, damaging infrastructure, arresting residents en masse, and inflicting injuries on defenseless civilians.

The city of Hebron bore witness to the callous cruelty of the occupation, as Israeli occupation forces reduced the home of martyr Abdul Qader al-Qawasmi to rubble for the second time this year.

In pictures: Local Palestinians inspect the destruction following the demolition of the house of the late Palestinian freedom fighter Abdelqader Al-Qawasmeh by Israeli occupation forces in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/r9DPmfBGTi

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 21, 2025

Occupation soldiers swarmed neighborhoods, rounding up families and erecting suffocating checkpoints that brought daily life to a standstill. This demolition was just one of 73 carried out by Israeli authorities in April alone, impacting over 150 structures and displacing nearly 100 families.

For the seventh consecutive day, Israeli occupation bulldozers continue razing the land of indigenous Palestinians in the town of Bruqin west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Ucs2OGxnyE

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Jenin, too, found itself in the crosshairs of Israeli aggression, with heavily armed troops raiding homes and businesses, leaving destruction in their wake. In a horrifying display of excessive force, soldiers shot a 17-year-old boy in the abdomen, leaving him fighting for his life. Israeli military bulldozers tore through streets and infrastructure, while soldiers commandeered homes, transforming them into makeshift military outposts.

Israeli occupation forces round up several Palestinians during a raid into the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/5JQBQDsawd

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From Salfit, where a kindergarten was viciously ransacked, to Kafr ad-Dik and Burqin, where villagers have been trapped under siege for days, unable to access critical medical care, the West Bank is being strangled by the occupation’s iron grip. In city after city – Ramallah, Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem – night raids, arbitrary arrests, property destruction, and land theft have become the devastating norm.

Israeli occupation soldiers subject a Palestinian youth with special needs to a humiliating search during the ongoing offensive in the town of Kafr Al-Dik in the central occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/aBNviggSVI

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Israeli occupation forces opened fire at 25 EU ambassadors in Jenin camp, West Bank.

Italian foreign ministry said he would summon Israeli ambassador to Rome over attack on 25 EU ambassadors in Jenin, occupied West Bank.

French foreign minister said he would summon Israeli ambassador to Paris over shooting at EU ambassadors in Jenin, occupied West Ban.

German foreign ministry affirmed that the Israeli attacks on diplomats in Jenin is unjustifiable and demanded clarifications.

Several areas in the West Bank are experiencing a state of constant tension due to the continuation of these violations, which have escalated since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and have spread to various Palestinian fronts.

BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces are besieging a house in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, unleashing a barrage of gunfire at the property while demanding occupants to turn themselves in. pic.twitter.com/AjpAJF9dqU

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 21, 2025

These developments on the ground occur amid the absence of any real political horizon and the occupation’s continued imposition of policies of repression and abuse, which portends further escalation and deterioration of the security and humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Breaking | Israeli settlers set fire to fields in the Marj al-Dahab area northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/x0RD97F8dk

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 20, 2025

Palestinian activists hold the international community responsible for its silence regarding these crimes and demand urgent international protection for the Palestinian people.

Source: Agencies and Al-Manar