A Co-ordinated Wave of Israeli Operations Across Occupied Territories Targets Cities, Towns, and Schools, Strangling Daily Life and Claiming a Life in Jerusalem
The Israeli occupation forces launched a sweeping campaign across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on Monday, escalating a strategy of pervasive control that resulted in the death of a young Palestinian, mass arrests, military raids, and the deliberate obstruction of education for thousands of students.
The day’s violence began with the killing of 25-year-old Sand Najeh Hantouli from Silat al-Dhahr. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed its crews retrieved his body from the suburb area of Jerusalem after he was shot by Israeli forces near the apartheid wall in the town of al-Ram.
Israeli occupation forces accompanied by an armoured personnel carrier storm the city of Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/tNlLgJMgcN
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 15, 2025
A Pattern of Arrests and Raids from North to South
The killing was accompanied by a co-ordinated clampdown. In Nablus, three citizens were arrested from their homes in the Askar al-Jadid and Balata refugee camps. The Hebron governorate faced a large-scale arrest campaign, with seven citizens detained from the towns of Yatta, Sa’ir, Beit Ummar, Hebron, and Bani Na’im.
The occupation military operations were intensified by severe movement restrictions. In Hebron, forces sealed entrances to the city and surrounding towns with iron gates, cement blocks, and earth mounds, paralyzing movement and exacerbating the suffering of residents.
Raids continued unabated from Bethlehem to Ramallah. Occupation forces stormed homes in Al-Ubeidiya and the Rakhma area, ransacked a factory in an industrial zone, and seized a mobile home in the town of Al-Khader. Similar incursions were reported in Deir Dibwan and two separate neighborhoods in Al-Bireh, though no arrests were made in those specific raids.
Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing lare swarhes of Palestinian land north of the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/XFy3eGtiM5
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 15, 2025
Education as a Target: Students and Teachers Systematically Obstructed
In a stark demonstration of the occupation’s impact on daily life, Israeli forces systematically targeted the educational system. In the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, military forces prevented school buses from leaving, detaining dozens of students at the checkpoint and effectively holding an entire community hostage.
The assault on education extended to the Jordan Valley, where teachers were barred from reaching their schools through the Hamra and Tayasir checkpoints. Azmi Balawneh, director of education for Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley, reported that dozens of teachers were stranded and students in Bedouin areas were left waiting for buses that could not pass.
Balawneh highlighted the systemic nature of these obstacles, citing data that the number of Israeli checkpoints and iron gates across the West Bank has now reached 898, with 146 erected since October 7, 2023, creating a labyrinth of control that chokes Palestinian life and mobility.
Source: Agencies and Al-Manar
