For a third consecutive day, the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, remains the focal point of a major Israeli occupation
military operation involving home raids, property destruction, and the construction of a new road through agricultural land.
Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression in the village of Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/4upfgerAdt
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According to Marzouq Abu Na’im, the deputy head of the village council, Israeli occupation forces have raided over 30 homes since dawn today, accompanied by “threats, provocations, and property destruction.” Citizens’ vehicles were also vandalized and smashed.
The Israeli occupation continues its aggression, destroying homes, abducting residents in Al-Moghayer in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/i06714XM1c
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The operation expanded with bulldozers paving a new road through the village’s eastern plain, destroying thousands of dunams of olive trees in the process. Abu Na’im stated that hundreds of residents have been forced to flee to neighboring villages due to the military’s closure of all entrances to Al-Mughayyir, a blockade that began last Thursday and has even restricted the movement of ambulances.
Last night, a female Israeli occupation soldier posted a video with music in the background as she bulldozed olive trees on indigenous Palestinian land amid the ongoing assaults and invasion of Al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/RuwqvQiRUl
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 23, 2025
The occupation military action is backed by an official order to uproot trees from approximately 297 dunams of village land, citing urgent security needs to protect the nearby Allon Road. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, this move is part of a broader effort to clear areas east of the settlement road. The commission’s Amir Daoud clarified that the land itself is not being confiscated, but all trees within the designated area are being removed.
Tensions have been further inflamed by reports of settlers making death threats via phone calls to village residents. The village was previously targeted last year when far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir pitched a tent at its entrance, inciting settlers against the community.
Israeli settlers continue to attack farmers’ lands near the village of Farkha, close to the city of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/SvMldkZSDd
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 23, 2025
Raids, Arrests Across the West Bank
Concurrent raids unfolded across other West Bank cities In Nablus forces stormed the Old City and several neighborhoods raiding the home of prisoner Adel Dweikat and triggering explosions before withdrawing In Jenin enemy troops raided homes in the eastern neighborhood detaining several young men including Malek Istiti and reportedly holding a couple to pressure their son to surrender
Israeli occupation forces storm Askar Camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Ep0pDlQtZY
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 23, 2025
Additional arrests were made in Bethlehem where occupation forces took Uday Adnan Shehadeh from the Dheisheh camp after raiding his home and in Tulkarm where two citizens Maher Daqqa and Jawad al-Silawi were detained from the town of Attil
Source: Al-Manar Eglish Website
